Hjördis Petterson

Acting

Hjördis Petterson

Born 1908-10-17 · Visby, Gotlands län, Sweden

Hjördis Olga Maria Petterson was a Swedish stage and screen actress, pedagogue and singer. She was educated at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school, Stockholm, 1927-30, made her film debut in "Kanske en diktare/Maybe a Poet" (1933). She has appeared in more than 140 feature films.

Acting credits

Synnöve Solbakken poster
10.0

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.

Synnöve Solbakken

1934

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

Löjtnantshjärtan poster
5.5

"Bleeding Hearts" - Comedy with charming hussar lieutenants, indulgent landlord daughters, wild rides and romantic mansion balls.

Löjtnantshjärtan

1942

No artwork available
6.5

The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.

Sadist

1966

Teacher on a Spree poster
7.0

Karin Berggren is living a double life. In the daytime she is a strict teacher at a boarding school for girls. In the evenings she becomes the star singer at a popular nightclub.

Teacher on a Spree

1941

Swinging at the Castle poster
7.0

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Swinging at the Castle

1959

The lift that went down into hell poster
8.5

A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.

The lift that went down into hell

1969

Swing it, fröken poster
6.7

There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Swing it, fröken

1956

Sällskapslek poster
9.0

In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.

Sällskapslek

1963

Children's Island poster
6.3

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.

Children's Island

1980

Sjösalavår poster
10.0

The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...

Sjösalavår

1949

Count on Trouble poster
7.3

A common shoe-shiner inherits a castle. Something his mean relatives dislikes. They try to scare him away with the help of fictional ghosts and other pranks.

Count on Trouble

1957

Dance on Roses poster
6.5

Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Broman, the owner of the theatre. After a few problems, the actors manage to set up a show, with Marianne as leading lady, which will decide the fate of the theatre.

Dance on Roses

1954

The Passion of Anna poster
7.4

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

The Passion of Anna

1969

Östermans testamente poster
7.0

The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.

Östermans testamente

1954

The Family Secret poster
7.0

Arvid and Lilli Ekman is a senior couple with one single adult son, Arne. They find out that the son is secretly engaged with the young Margit Berg - and that they already have a three-year-old son together.

The Family Secret

1936

His Grace's Will poster
5.7

His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.

His Grace's Will

1940

Lasse-Maja poster
10.0

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.

Lasse-Maja

1941

The Adventures of Picasso poster
6.9

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.

The Adventures of Picasso

1978

Divorced poster
7.0

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

Divorced

1951

Appassionata poster
5.8

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.

Appassionata

1944

När syrenerna blomma poster
7.0

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

När syrenerna blomma

1952

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

Hemsöborna poster
4.5

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.

Hemsöborna

1955