Acting

Sten Mattsson

Born — Died

1928-06-16 — 2013-02-02

Place of birth

Karlskoga, Örebro län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 25 titles

Summer with Monika poster
7.3

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Summer with Monika

1953

One Summer of Happiness poster
6.3

The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.

One Summer of Happiness

1951

Waiting Women poster
6.4

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.

Waiting Women

1952

Summer Interlude poster
7.4

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

Summer Interlude

1951

Little Fridolf and Me poster
6.1

Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.

Little Fridolf and Me

1956

Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften poster
3.8

Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around ...

Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften

1956

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

Darling of Mine poster
6.7

The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Darling of Mine

1955

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

No artwork available
10.0

Privates 91 and 87 are ordered to carry a tube of explosive chemicals to a military depot, while prize fighter Ingemar Johansson tries to teach them how to throw a punch.

91:an Karlsson slår knockout

1957

Tarp's Elin poster
9.0

Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.

Tarp's Elin

1956

For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth poster
7.5

A high school in a small city. Torben and Ninni are deeply infatuated with each other but their parents dislike the pair seeing each other. After graduation Torben joins the army and when Ninni discovers that she is pregnant her parents send her to a farm in Denmark to bear her child.

For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth

1952

Enchanted Journey poster
8.0

A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.

Enchanted Journey

1954

Rolling Sea poster
8.0

"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.

Rolling Sea

1950

We Three Debutantes poster
8.0

Three young poets are about to make their debuts.

We Three Debutantes

1953

Storm over Tjurö poster
6.3

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.

Storm over Tjurö

1954

Hård klang poster
5.2

A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.

Hård klang

1952

Mamma tar semester poster
10.0

Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and is shocked to see how her husband and children regard her as a live-in housekeeper. She convinces Karin to take a vacation with her in Stockholm.

Mamma tar semester

1957

Defiance poster
7.0

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his own son, he turns to a priest for advice.

Defiance

1952

Salka Valka poster
6.0

A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is

Salka Valka

1954

En karl i köket poster
9.0

Olle works as maître d' and hopes to buy a hotel with money he borrowed. When his creditor dies Olle gets tricked by his lawyer and has to pay back 50,000 crowns in eight days. In order to pay the money he answers the ads in the newspaper looking for a maid.

En karl i köket

1954

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

No artwork available
NR

A Swedish short drama.

Av skadan blir man vis

1951

Klarar Bananen Biffen? poster
6.5

Biffen and Bananen compete in a walking race between Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Klarar Bananen Biffen?

1957

No artwork available
9.0

In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.

Johan på Snippen

1956