Weyler Hildebrand

Writing

Weyler Hildebrand

Born — Died

1890-01-04 — 1944-11-17

Place of birth

Västervik, Kalmar län, Sweden

Known for

Writing

Credits

79 titles

Weyler Hildebrand (4 January 1890 – 17 November 1944) was a Swedish actor, film director and writer. He appeared in over 35 films between 1924 and 1944. He also directed over 20 films between 1932 and 1944 and wrote scripts to 30 films between 1925 and 1944.[

Known for

Shanty Town poster
6.0

About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.

Shanty Town

1932

Samvetsömma Adolf poster
10.0

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.

Samvetsömma Adolf

1936

Guest House Paradise poster
5.4

Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but when she leaves she accidentally forgets to turn off the iron. However, her brother Julle sneaks back one night to turn it off. When he is discovered, he tries to make them believe that he is the great Argentine opera singer Don Carlos they have been waiting for

Guest House Paradise

1937

Han, hon och pengarna poster
8.0

Young Göran Hilding gamble and loses money he does not have. He'll have to pledge his 50 shares in a publishing company.

Han, hon och pengarna

1936

65, 66, and Me poster
7.5

Wholesaler Pettersson ends up in the military after being mixed up with a soldier on the run, who has stolen his identity.

65, 66, and Me

1936

Triumph of the Heart poster
6.8

In a small mine town north of the circle, Torsten lives, working with his sister Eva and comrade Lars, who is engaged to Eva. The town's bat-owner has a daughter, Märta, who, after trying out the big city life, has returned to the village for a while, and begins to flirt openly with Torsten, but also with Lars. Märta hears of an old gold treasure that will be hidden somewhere in the mountains, trying to seduce both of them and seek both friends to find out the treasure. Neither Lars nor Torsten knows the plans or swarms of others, but Eva notices how Märta attracts Lars away from her.

Triumph of the Heart

1929

Film credits

1940s · 4 titles

1930s · 24 titles

Shanty Town poster
6.0

About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.

Shanty Town

1932

Samvetsömma Adolf poster
10.0

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.

Samvetsömma Adolf

1936

Raller of the Crown poster
7.0

Follows a group of navvies as they work on completing the last great railway through the Swedish wilderness.

Raller of the Crown

1932

The Count of the Old Town poster
5.2

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.

The Count of the Old Town

1935

Adolf Armstarke poster
4.4

Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.

Adolf Armstarke

1937

Work! poster
NR

A young unemployed man, Bergmark, gets a job at a labor camp in the country, where he reconnects with the Social Democratic farmer Persson's daughter Barbro. They fall in love with each other. Through Persson's reasoning with his neighbor Ringdahl, he becomes a convinced social democrat, not least since he heard a political program speech by Per Albin Hansson.

Work!

1934

Ocean Breakers poster
8.0

Daniel has reluctantly followed his father into the priesthood. After graduating, he comes to a parish in Hälsingland. During one stormy night, Daniel and Karin, a resident of Hälsingland and old friend, are both overcome with emotion and sleep together. Filled with regret over breaking his vows, he runs out into the dark night and is struck by lightning. He loses his memory and is taken to a distant hospital to recover. Meanwhile Karin gets pregnant and has a child. Eventually Daniel comes back and when he meets Karin his memory returns.

Ocean Breakers

1935

Landstormens lilla Lotta poster
5.8

It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript. Everybody seems to be trying to get a date with Elsa, who cooks their food. Nobody takes the training seriously.

Landstormens lilla Lotta

1939

Alla tiders Karlsson poster
7.0

Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.

Alla tiders Karlsson

1936

Thunder and Lightning poster
7.0

The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.

Thunder and Lightning

1938

Manslaughter poster
10.0

Sonja is a spoiled young lady who thinks she can get anything for money. She is living a life in luxury. One day she meets a lawyer who is a public prosecutor. They fall in love.

Manslaughter

1931

Skipper's Love poster
10.0

Erik, Harald and Borell are fighting for Majkens heart.

Skipper's Love

1931

Klart till drabbning poster
6.0

Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship.

Klart till drabbning

1937

The Wrong Millionaire poster
5.7

The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (Håkan Westergren) and his male secretary of the same name (Fridolf Rhudin). The millionaire stays hidden in his cabin with the secretary and does not appear on deck. A journalist arrives out at sea by airplane and asks for an interview, which the millionaire refuses to agree to. The journalist disguises himself as a steward, puts on a hidden camera (a spy camera) in the buttonhole, enters with a tea tray and photographs the wrong person - the secretary.

The Wrong Millionaire

1931

Just a Trumpeter poster
4.5

An army musician is mistaken for a company manager and fall in love.

Just a Trumpeter

1938

No artwork available
7.0

The little town Västerköping needs a new police man - but the only applicant is the small and tiny Fridolf. He gets the job but has to work with the big and strong police inspector Göransson. The town is visited by a crook who has specialized in stealing from local councils. Can this unusual pair stop him?

Hemliga Svensson

1933

Simon i Backabo poster
10.0

Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.

Simon i Backabo

1934

Television: Swedish Version poster
8.0

A young inventor has constructed a television set. His landlady has become very skeptical of both him and his invention, perhaps mainly due to the fact that he is constantly broke and hasn't paid the rent in months. Adding to the irritation is that the hostess's daughter loves the young man and is trying to convince her employer, the director, to finance the whole thing. The director wants both her and the television set, but his evil investment doesn't come to fruition thanks to the latter.

Television: Swedish Version

1931

Scattered Pages poster
9.0

Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.

Scattered Pages

1931

No artwork available
NR

It's Walpurgis Night in Uppsala. The students sing the Student Song, put on their white caps, cheer and have drinks.

Muntra musikanter

1932

Ship Ahoy! poster
9.0

In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.

Ship Ahoy!

1931

Northerners poster
7.0

Homeowner Edlund is forced to borrow money from Mauritz Berg, the local sawmill owner, but soon finds it is not an end to his problems or his dealings with Berg.

Northerners

1930

Knights of the Crown poster
10.0

Conscript Fridolf and his sergeant, Göransson, both try to win the love of sweet Mary. According to an older relative's last will, she will inherit a fortune if she marries the unfortunate Dick Carter. A con man comes to the little town, claiming to be the legitimate Carter.

Knights of the Crown

1930

No artwork available
8.0

In a sham ceremony at the city hall, the dimwitted Fridolf is married to Margit. It doesn't take long, however, before he is arrested for bigamy. His first wife left him a few years ago, but Fridolf isn't very bright and he thought that she was dead when she wrote a letter to him saying that. She ran off to join a circus. By a coincidence, the circus is visiting Fridolf's home town and Fridolf goes to the circus with a free ticket. But at the circus all he can do is make a fool of himself.

Fridolf i lejonkulan

1933

1920s · 8 titles

Triumph of the Heart poster
6.8

In a small mine town north of the circle, Torsten lives, working with his sister Eva and comrade Lars, who is engaged to Eva. The town's bat-owner has a daughter, Märta, who, after trying out the big city life, has returned to the village for a while, and begins to flirt openly with Torsten, but also with Lars. Märta hears of an old gold treasure that will be hidden somewhere in the mountains, trying to seduce both of them and seek both friends to find out the treasure. Neither Lars nor Torsten knows the plans or swarms of others, but Eva notices how Märta attracts Lars away from her.

Triumph of the Heart

1929

Artificial Svensson poster
9.3

When silly inventor Svensson gets mistaken for Swedish/American aviator Smith, he is accidentally enlisted in the military and drawn into unexpected romantic affairs.

Artificial Svensson

1929

Gustaf Wasa, Part One poster
9.0

The story takes its beginning in 1518 , the Danish King Christian II has taken Sweden. Sten Sture the younger appeal to all loyal subjects to resist. The offer reaches the farmer Mats Waltersson in Dalarna , Sweden's heart and he gathers his men. Dalmas were going from house to house, they do not want a Dane on the throne. At Brännkyrka outside Stockholm is a battle between the Danes and Swedes. Swedes win and the Swedish riksbaneret out during the Battle of Gustav Eriksson Vasa.

Gustaf Wasa, Part One

1928

For Home and Girl poster
6.8

When the old fisherman Boman drowns on a storm night, his widow and daughter Gerd is left alone in their cabin. Lost.

For Home and Girl

1925

The Ghost Baron poster
10.0

Baron Conrad Wirvelpihl get hit in the head and lose his memory.

The Ghost Baron

1927

Black Rudolf poster
10.0

Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.

Black Rudolf

1928

No artwork available
NR

Early sound film. Quirky Fridolf, with the benevolent help of an "amateur singer", prefers a couple of accordion couplets.

Quirky Fridolf

1929

King of Trollebo poster
10.0

A man commits a robbery and start a new life in the northern parts of Sweden where he establishes himself as a farmer.

King of Trollebo

1924

Behind the camera

Shanty Town poster
6.0

About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.

Shanty Town

1932

Samvetsömma Adolf poster
10.0

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.

Samvetsömma Adolf

1936

Guest House Paradise poster
5.4

Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but when she leaves she accidentally forgets to turn off the iron. However, her brother Julle sneaks back one night to turn it off. When he is discovered, he tries to make them believe that he is the great Argentine opera singer Don Carlos they have been waiting for

Guest House Paradise

1937

Han, hon och pengarna poster
8.0

Young Göran Hilding gamble and loses money he does not have. He'll have to pledge his 50 shares in a publishing company.

Han, hon och pengarna

1936

65, 66, and Me poster
7.5

Wholesaler Pettersson ends up in the military after being mixed up with a soldier on the run, who has stolen his identity.

65, 66, and Me

1936

Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer poster
9.0

After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up to Pettersson & Bendel from 1933.

Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer

1945

Lilla helgonet poster
6.7

Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche").

Lilla helgonet

1944

Lilla helgonet poster
6.7

Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche").

Lilla helgonet

1944

O, What a Night! poster
5.7

Wholesaler Berggren's daughter Elin travels to Örebro to spend her honeymoon with her husband Efraim. They get separate rooms on the hotel and later that night she finds another woman in her husband's bed. She goes back home immediately. Elin's sister Irma is courted by the handsome Klas, but he seems to be unable to forget his last fiancée. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

O, What a Night!

1937

Löjtnantshjärtan poster
5.5

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

Löjtnantshjärtan

1942

Löjtnantshjärtan poster
5.5

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

Löjtnantshjärtan

1942

Raller of the Crown poster
7.0

Follows a group of navvies as they work on completing the last great railway through the Swedish wilderness.

Raller of the Crown

1932

Fröken Vildkatt poster
5.8

Thomas Palm (Åke Söderblom) has recently been promoted at work at The Royal Canal Office. He celebrates with his friends on a night out and on the way home he saves a woman from drowning. The woman's name is Dolly (Marguerite Viby), an out of work actress, who won't leave his side and this gets him into trouble when he is about to get married in a couple of days.

Fröken Vildkatt

1941

Fröken Vildkatt poster
5.8

Thomas Palm (Åke Söderblom) has recently been promoted at work at The Royal Canal Office. He celebrates with his friends on a night out and on the way home he saves a woman from drowning. The woman's name is Dolly (Marguerite Viby), an out of work actress, who won't leave his side and this gets him into trouble when he is about to get married in a couple of days.

Fröken Vildkatt

1941

No artwork available
7.0

The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.

Mitt folk är icke ditt

1944

No artwork available
7.0

The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.

Mitt folk är icke ditt

1944

En melodi om våren poster
9.0

Sten meets Nina on a train ride. He feels attracted to her but he is already engaged to his fiancee Marie-Louise.

En melodi om våren

1943

Queen for a Night poster
9.0

"His Majesty's Rival" - A young man, Lars Hjelm, returns home after being in Italy on a scholarship from the Swedish king, Gustaf III. On his way home he meets with opera singer Antoinette and fall in love with her. His fiancee Eva expects him home any day.

Queen for a Night

1943

Livet på en pinne poster
7.0

Aldor Johnsson is an old but unsuccessful criminal.

Livet på en pinne

1942

Livet på en pinne poster
7.0

Aldor Johnsson is an old but unsuccessful criminal.

Livet på en pinne

1942

Dunungen poster
7.0

The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.

Dunungen

1941

Dunungen poster
7.0

The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.

Dunungen

1941

Adolf Armstarke poster
4.4

Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.

Adolf Armstarke

1937

No artwork available
10.0

A group of young people are hiking in the mountains. Among them are Gull Werner, who is a happy girl, and her father has asked the others to keep an eye on her. She walks in the wilderness, falls in the snow and becomes unconscious.

Luftens vagabond

1933

No artwork available
10.0

A group of young people are hiking in the mountains. Among them are Gull Werner, who is a happy girl, and her father has asked the others to keep an eye on her. She walks in the wilderness, falls in the snow and becomes unconscious.

Luftens vagabond

1933

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

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

Work! poster
NR

A young unemployed man, Bergmark, gets a job at a labor camp in the country, where he reconnects with the Social Democratic farmer Persson's daughter Barbro. They fall in love with each other. Through Persson's reasoning with his neighbor Ringdahl, he becomes a convinced social democrat, not least since he heard a political program speech by Per Albin Hansson.

Work!

1934

For Home and Girl poster
6.8

When the old fisherman Boman drowns on a storm night, his widow and daughter Gerd is left alone in their cabin. Lost.

For Home and Girl

1925

No artwork available
9.0

A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.

Cadets Together

1939

No artwork available
9.0

A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.

Cadets Together

1939

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours poster
10.0

At Södermalm in Stockholm there are nice, honest people and so some really unpleasant capitalists. And also a deliverer.

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours

1938

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours poster
10.0

At Södermalm in Stockholm there are nice, honest people and so some really unpleasant capitalists. And also a deliverer.

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours

1938

Den farliga leken poster
7.0

Lola Brio has a large number of professions. She is partly a revue primadonna and gramophone singer, but the nameplate on her door also reads "Lessons in French and Grace", which of the film's act to judge apparently means that she is partly a luxury prostitute and partly takes care of country girls to give them some posture of polish.

Den farliga leken

1933

Landstormens lilla Lotta poster
5.8

It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript. Everybody seems to be trying to get a date with Elsa, who cooks their food. Nobody takes the training seriously.

Landstormens lilla Lotta

1939

Landstormens lilla Lotta poster
5.8

It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript. Everybody seems to be trying to get a date with Elsa, who cooks their food. Nobody takes the training seriously.

Landstormens lilla Lotta

1939

Familjen Andersson poster
9.0

A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.

Familjen Andersson

1937

Lillebror och jag poster
7.0

Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.

Lillebror och jag

1940

Lillebror och jag poster
7.0

Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.

Lillebror och jag

1940

Klart till drabbning poster
6.0

Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship.

Klart till drabbning

1937