Acting

Carl Andersson

Born

1880-05-18 (146)

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

The Silence poster
7.5

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

The Silence

1963

Miss Julie poster
6.6

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

Miss Julie

1951

Wonderful Adventures of Nils poster
6.1

A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

1962

Prince Gustaf poster
8.0

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.

Prince Gustaf

1944

Thirst poster
6.3

A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.

Thirst

1949

Farlig vår poster
4.7

A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected...

Farlig vår

1949

Film credits

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 13 titles

Miss Julie poster
6.6

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

Miss Julie

1951

The Staffan Stolle Story poster
6.3

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

The Staffan Stolle Story

1956

Bror min och jag poster
6.5

Gus and Holger, two students in Uppsala, have problems with the rent. They are waiting for money from their uncle, but instead of money they are reached by the news that he has gone bankrupt.

Bror min och jag

1953

Jazz Boy poster
7.3

The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.

Jazz Boy

1958

Mord, lilla vän poster
6.0

A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita.

Mord, lilla vän

1955

Whoops! poster
5.8

A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.

Whoops!

1955

The White Cat poster
6.3

A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.

The White Cat

1950

Miss Chic poster
4.7

Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.

Miss Chic

1959

The Happy Shoemaker poster
7.0

Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?

The Happy Shoemaker

1955

Dumbom poster
5.7

Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.

Dumbom

1953

The Great Amateur poster
6.0

Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.

The Great Amateur

1958

Just a Waiter poster
7.0

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.

Just a Waiter

1959

Flottans Muntergökar poster
7.0

Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.

Flottans Muntergökar

1955

1940s · 15 titles

Prince Gustaf poster
8.0

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.

Prince Gustaf

1944

Thirst poster
6.3

A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.

Thirst

1949

Farlig vår poster
4.7

A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected...

Farlig vår

1949

Money: A Tragicomic Saga poster
7.2

Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar. Orvar does not know that he has inherited a large fortune but the seven brothers do and they begin to treat him with the greatest courtesy. They convince him to write his last will, making them his heirs, and then begin to make plans on how to kill him.

Money: A Tragicomic Saga

1946

Tåg 56 poster
7.0

A triangle drama. Oskar has just been appointed to the train driver, his friend and colleague Gustav turns 60 and must retire. Gustav's son Lasse is interested in Oskar's wife Britta who feels neglected by her husband.

Tåg 56

1943

Sten Stensson kommer till stan poster
5.5

Sten Stensson from Eslöv has just got his law-degree from the University of Stockholm.

Sten Stensson kommer till stan

1945

There's a Fire Burning poster
9.0

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.

There's a Fire Burning

1943

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

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

Aktören poster
6.0

The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.

Aktören

1943

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

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

Gomorron Bill! poster
6.0

Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and makes a fuss.

Gomorron Bill!

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

Song of Stockholm poster
5.0

Knatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s. Knatten tries to earn money while Janne is looking for the music.

Song of Stockholm

1947

1930s · 14 titles

Man's Way with Women poster
8.0

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.

Man's Way with Women

1934

Servant's Entrance poster
8.0

Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.

Servant's Entrance

1932

Kungen kommer poster
5.0

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV. With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.

Kungen kommer

1936

Melodin från Gamla Stan poster
7.0

Swedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer of a prominent publisher is arrested, on suspicion of theft of 10,000 crowns from a cash box. Nisse has, however, seen something suspicious.

Melodin från Gamla Stan

1939

Fasters millioner poster
9.0

The ladies man Georg is finally about to get married, but a misunderstanding lead to his new wife break up the wedding.

Fasters millioner

1934

Karl Fredrik Reigns poster
6.7

A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.

Karl Fredrik Reigns

1934

Janssons frestelse poster
8.0

John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the firm's money. The bank wants John to take over leadership of the company.

Janssons frestelse

1936

To Help the Lady of the House poster
5.5

Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.

To Help the Lady of the House

1939

Uppsagd poster
9.0

Björn Kraft is an office clerk and one day his boss installs a new accounting machine that can do three mans job. A couple of days later Björn gets the termination letter.

Uppsagd

1934

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

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

Atlantäventyret poster
4.8

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.

Atlantäventyret

1934

The Girls' Alfred poster
7.0

The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.

The Girls' Alfred

1935

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