Tord Stål

Acting

Tord Stål

Born — Died

1906-09-14 — 1972-07-02

Place of birth

Kristianstad, Kristianstad län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Known for

Dreams poster
7.0

Two women—a fashion executive and her young model—experience parallel romantic disappointments during a trip to Gothenburg, exposing generational differences in desire, illusion, and emotional endurance. A transitional work in Ingmar Bergman’s mid-1950s cinema.

Dreams

1955

Meeting in the Night poster
6.8

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Meeting in the Night

1946

Caged Women poster
8.0

Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.

Caged Women

1947

En svensk tiger poster
8.0

Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.

En svensk tiger

1948

Hugo and Josephine poster
6.8

Josefin is a six year old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. She has no friends until she meets Hugo. He is a carefree boy who'd rather walk in the forest than go to school. Together with the gardener, they make up fun things to do.

Hugo and Josephine

1967

You Who Are About to Enter poster
4.6

Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"

You Who Are About to Enter

1945

Film credits

1950s · 11 titles

Dreams poster
7.0

Two women—a fashion executive and her young model—experience parallel romantic disappointments during a trip to Gothenburg, exposing generational differences in desire, illusion, and emotional endurance. A transitional work in Ingmar Bergman’s mid-1950s cinema.

Dreams

1955

Private Entrance poster
4.1

A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.

Private Entrance

1956

Han glömde henne aldrig poster
3.0

American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.

Han glömde henne aldrig

1952

Miss April poster
7.3

The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.

Miss April

1958

The Minister of Uddarbo poster
8.0

A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.

The Minister of Uddarbo

1957

Jack of Hearts poster
4.8

Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.

Jack of Hearts

1950

No artwork available
7.0

Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.

Janne Vängman och den stora kometen

1955

A Dreamer's Journey poster
7.0

Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.

A Dreamer's Journey

1957

Sista ringen poster
9.0

Eric and Clarence are friends from the same class in school - but from different social classes. Eric comes from the working class, Clarence from the upper class. Eric regards his studies as a way of getting somewhere, while Clarence is only interested in the drawing lessons. There are only a few months left until graduation. Clarence behaves very provocatively against the art teacher 'Sjasen'. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Sista ringen

1955

Leva på 'Hoppet' poster
9.0

A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat.

Leva på 'Hoppet'

1951

Livat på luckan poster
9.0

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

Livat på luckan

1951

1940s · 32 titles

Meeting in the Night poster
6.8

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Meeting in the Night

1946

Caged Women poster
8.0

Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.

Caged Women

1947

En svensk tiger poster
8.0

Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.

En svensk tiger

1948

You Who Are About to Enter poster
4.6

Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"

You Who Are About to Enter

1945

Crime and Punishment poster
7.7

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1945

Lars Hård poster
5.5

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Lars Hård

1948

När ängarna blommar poster
7.0

The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.

När ängarna blommar

1946

Three Sons poster
9.0

Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.

Three Sons

1945

The Banquet poster
5.7

As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.

The Banquet

1948

Eviga länkar poster
6.5

Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.

Eviga länkar

1946

The Royal Rabble poster
6.8

The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

The Royal Rabble

1945

While the Door Was Locked poster
6.4

The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

While the Door Was Locked

1946

Landstormens lilla argbigga poster
6.7

Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.

Landstormens lilla argbigga

1941

No artwork available
10.0

Johansson has a small mechanical workshop, which provides for him and his family.

Vår herre luggar Johansson

1944

Vagabond Blacksmiths poster
9.0

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.

Vagabond Blacksmiths

1949

Brita i grosshandlarhuset poster
7.0

Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with a young man. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from the old village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.

Brita i grosshandlarhuset

1946

New Order at Sjogarda poster
5.4

Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education. This she dislikes and things doesn't gets better when her father thinking of selling the estate.

New Order at Sjogarda

1944

Everybody at His Station poster
7.0

Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea. He does not like the military and will do anything to get away. One day he steals a wallet and in it finds his paper suggesting that a spy is on the move who think stealing trade secrets about the weapons factory in Granefors.

Everybody at His Station

1940

Här kommer vi ... poster
6.5

The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.

Här kommer vi ...

1947

Incorrigible poster
5.0

Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.

Incorrigible

1946

Blood and Fire poster
9.0

Thomas Hell is an officer in the Salvation Army. He has religious doubts and questions the meaning of his work. He meets Lili, an ex-prostitute struggling to start a new life and he falls in love with her. However, she has a pimp, the boxer Herman, who won't let her leave.

Blood and Fire

1945

His Excellency poster
6.0

Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.

His Excellency

1944

På farliga vägar poster
6.0

Martin and Märta live in a seemingly happy marriage, but Märta feels neglected. One evening she meets Martine's colleague, the Frenchman Barthou, famous for his success with the Stockholm ladies. He starts to flirt with Märta.

På farliga vägar

1944

How to Love poster
3.3

Tells a story about a man named Anthony who loses his wife, to an illness and finds it hard to move on. Although Anthony is now single, he struggles with how to build a new relationship with Tiffany. Anthony is uneasy to love again and pushes her away. He finds a letter from his deceased wife, saying that if something happens, to love and marry again. He is ready to let go, let God and move on.

How to Love

1947

Harald Handfaste poster
6.0

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.

Harald Handfaste

1946

No artwork available
9.0

Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him to stay with them in hopes that he will leave them a large share of his inheritance.

Skipper Jansson

1945

Kristin Commands poster
6.2

Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.

Kristin Commands

1946

Each to His Own Way poster
7.0

A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.

Each to His Own Way

1948

Flickor i hamn poster
9.0

Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.

Flickor i hamn

1945

No artwork available
10.0

A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.

En äventyrare

1942

The Girl and the Devil poster
6.5

The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Girl and the Devil

1944

Sextuplets poster
7.0

A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. In reality it turns out that it's only two sets of twins.

Sextuplets

1942