Nils Poppe

Acting

Nils Poppe

Born 1908-05-31 · Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden

Nils Poppe (31 May 1908 – 28 June 2000) was a Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager. He is internationally most famous for his part in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, but in Sweden he was much loved and participated in over 50 films on cinema and TV.

Acting credits

The Seventh Seal poster
8.1

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

The Seventh Seal

1957

The Devil's Eye poster
7.1

Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.

The Devil's Eye

1960

Det går som en dans... poster
NR

Short comedy about an author named Viktor Mattson (Nils Poppe) whose publisher tells him that his latest book is bad. To make money, Mattson becomes a door salesman for the publisher and goes to Nyköping to sell books. After a few ifs and buts, Mattson meets Ingrid Bergsjö (Britta Brunius) whom he falls in love with.

Det går som en dans...

1943

Hur tokigt som helst poster
10.0

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.

Hur tokigt som helst

1949

No artwork available
NR

A potrait of Malmö, lovingly told by Gösta Werner and Nils Poppe.

Stad vid färdeväg

1961

Fantastiska pappa poster
7.0

Two men in love with Henriette Perrichon do their best to convince her father to pick them as her groom in mid 19th century France.

Fantastiska pappa

1978

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

Nils Poppe: Rolig till varje pris poster
7.0

Nils Poppe was one of Sweden's comedy greats but in this film his daughter, the actress Mia Poppe, wants to find answers to his inner darkness - hidden from the masses.

Nils Poppe: Rolig till varje pris

2023

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

Ljuset från Lund poster
6.7

A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.

Ljuset från Lund

1955

My Sister and I poster
10.0

A young princess falls in love with the castle's young music teacher, Roger Fleuirot, but he is shy and does not dare to show his love for her. When the music teacher goes to Paris, the princess follows him and pretends to be her own twin sister, who works in a shoe shop. Nils Poppe plays the cheerful shoemaker Fabian Filosel.

My Sister and I

1990

Lilla helgonet poster
7.0

A convent organist and music teacher escorts a young woman who has been boarding there, home to be married, but romantic complications ensue.

Lilla helgonet

1985

Private Bom poster
5.4

The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.

Private Bom

1948

Take Me! I'm Yours! poster
7.0

Calle Pettersson is engaged to the young beauty Marilyn on the false pretense that he saved her life

Take Me! I'm Yours!

1988

Oskulden från Mölle poster
8.0

A shy and aging bachelor suddenly becomes very interesting to the women in town after a rumour starts spreading about him being together with a famous movie star in his youth.

Oskulden från Mölle

1977

The Lord from the Lane poster
8.3

The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbåge. But he can only get the money on one condition: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja.

The Lord from the Lane

1949

Dance, My Doll poster
4.3

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.

Dance, My Doll

1953

Tappa inte sugen poster
8.0

In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Allan is not prepared to give more than one pale hint of fight; he wants to be presentable in later scenes as well. The director wears his hair.

Tappa inte sugen

1947

Lejon på stan poster
10.0

Charlie is an old circus artist who quit after an accident. When a circus comes to town, their lion is let loose.

Lejon på stan

1959

Stjärnbilder poster
10.0

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.

Stjärnbilder

1995

The Flower from Hawaii poster
8.0

As a young girl, the exiled princess Laya was forced to leave Hawaii and was raised in France. She discovers that she looks like the Parisian revue star Suzanne Provence and decides to return to her homeland incognito, disguised as Miss Provence. She is accompanied on her journey by the famous clown Jimmy Boy.

The Flower from Hawaii

1992

Bröderna Östermans huskors poster
10.0

Three lazy old brothers living together in the Stockholm archipelago hire a housekeeper. When she starts bossing them around they decide they want to get rid of her.

Bröderna Östermans huskors

1994

Mimmi från Möllevången poster
NR

Bank manager Pankh has a habit of promoting the men who let him spend some time with their wives. Pelle Finkel doesn't want to subject his own wife to this so he decides to hire the prostitute Mimmi to pose as his wife.

Mimmi från Möllevången

1981

Minns ni? poster
NR

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Minns ni?

1993

Behind the camera

Fantastiska pappa poster
7.0

Two men in love with Henriette Perrichon do their best to convince her father to pick them as her groom in mid 19th century France.

Fantastiska pappa

1978

My Sister and I poster
10.0

A young princess falls in love with the castle's young music teacher, Roger Fleuirot, but he is shy and does not dare to show his love for her. When the music teacher goes to Paris, the princess follows him and pretends to be her own twin sister, who works in a shoe shop. Nils Poppe plays the cheerful shoemaker Fabian Filosel.

My Sister and I

1990

Lilla helgonet poster
7.0

A convent organist and music teacher escorts a young woman who has been boarding there, home to be married, but romantic complications ensue.

Lilla helgonet

1985

Private Bom poster
5.4

The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.

Private Bom

1948

Oskulden från Mölle poster
8.0

A shy and aging bachelor suddenly becomes very interesting to the women in town after a rumour starts spreading about him being together with a famous movie star in his youth.

Oskulden från Mölle

1977

The Lord from the Lane poster
8.3

The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbåge. But he can only get the money on one condition: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja.

The Lord from the Lane

1949

Dance, My Doll poster
4.3

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.

Dance, My Doll

1953

Tappa inte sugen poster
8.0

In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Allan is not prepared to give more than one pale hint of fight; he wants to be presentable in later scenes as well. The director wears his hair.

Tappa inte sugen

1947

The Flower from Hawaii poster
8.0

As a young girl, the exiled princess Laya was forced to leave Hawaii and was raised in France. She discovers that she looks like the Parisian revue star Suzanne Provence and decides to return to her homeland incognito, disguised as Miss Provence. She is accompanied on her journey by the famous clown Jimmy Boy.

The Flower from Hawaii

1992

Bröderna Östermans huskors poster
10.0

Three lazy old brothers living together in the Stockholm archipelago hire a housekeeper. When she starts bossing them around they decide they want to get rid of her.

Bröderna Östermans huskors

1994

Mimmi från Möllevången poster
NR

Bank manager Pankh has a habit of promoting the men who let him spend some time with their wives. Pelle Finkel doesn't want to subject his own wife to this so he decides to hire the prostitute Mimmi to pose as his wife.

Mimmi från Möllevången

1981

Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka poster
4.0

Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to Stockholm a few days before the the broadcast to teach the young generation how to behave. A gang of crooks mistakes him for a famous dynamiter that they've been waiting for.

Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka

1963

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

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

Fars lille påg poster
7.0

When Waldemar Palm married an old woman as a young man to give her estranged son a surname he didn't expect his good deed to come back to haunt him. When his in-laws from his second marriage show up on the same day that his adult step-son turns up unannounced he finds himself getting more and more wrapped up in his lies.

Fars lille påg

1986

Flottans överman poster
4.8

Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Flottans överman

1958

Females At Play poster
6.3

A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

Females At Play

1945

Father Bom poster
5.9

Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother.

Father Bom

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

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

The Balloon poster
7.5

Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.

The Balloon

1946

The Balloon poster
7.5

Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.

The Balloon

1946

Tull-Bom poster
5.7

Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.

Tull-Bom

1951

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