Gunnar Olsson

Acting

Gunnar Olsson

Born — Died

1904-07-10 — 1983-09-16

Place of birth

Nyköping, Södermanlands län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Gunnar Olsson was a Swedish stage and screen actor, director and screenwriter. He made his acting debut in Lorens Marmstedt's film "Kanske en diktare/Maybe a Poet" (1933) and his directing debut with "Järnets män/Men of Iron" (1935).

Known for

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

Wild Strawberries poster
8.1

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Wild Strawberries

1957

Summer Interlude poster
7.4

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

Summer Interlude

1951

The Girl from the Third Row poster
5.7

A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.

The Girl from the Third Row

1949

The Cherry Orchard poster
7.0

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

The Cherry Orchard

1970

Gabrielle poster
5.6

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.

Gabrielle

1954

Film credits

1950s · 19 titles

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

Wild Strawberries poster
8.1

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Wild Strawberries

1957

Summer Interlude poster
7.4

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

Summer Interlude

1951

Gabrielle poster
5.6

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.

Gabrielle

1954

Gabrielle poster
5.6

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.

Gabrielle

1954

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

No artwork available
9.0

Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, John's shy and introverted scientist who dares to admire a woman only from a distance.

Som man bäddar...

1957

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

Young Summer poster
8.0

Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.

Young Summer

1954

Resa i natten poster
9.0

Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.

Resa i natten

1955

Gårdarna runt sjön poster
5.7

A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.

Gårdarna runt sjön

1957

Woman in a Fur Coat poster
3.7

Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?

Woman in a Fur Coat

1958

Mälarpirater poster
10.0

Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.

Mälarpirater

1959

Seger i mörker poster
8.0

The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.

Seger i mörker

1954

No artwork available
7.0

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

Måsen

1959

The Road to Klockrike poster
4.3

Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.

The Road to Klockrike

1953

Skeppare i blåsväder poster
7.0

The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.

Skeppare i blåsväder

1951

Gammal bygd i ny tid, Näsby-Frövi poster
NR

Old Village in the New Age is a unique documentary about Näsby and Frövi. The film was shot in 1954 - 1955 on behalf of the Näsby Local History Association, at the same time that Frövi municipal community received "status" as a town. We meet the Frövi residents at work, at school, in the community, at home and at some of the year's holidays. The renovation of the church in 1953. We also get an insight into the business world of the time and several interesting meetings with the people of the village. As a local history film, it is very comprehensive and the production was very far-sighted and can be considered a valuable document of the time, not least from a film technical point of view

Gammal bygd i ny tid, Näsby-Frövi

1955

Skrattbomben poster
8.0

Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people around laugh.

Skrattbomben

1954

1940s · 9 titles

The Girl from the Third Row poster
5.7

A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.

The Girl from the Third Row

1949

Old Clock of Roenneberga poster
7.0

Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.

Old Clock of Roenneberga

1944

The Happy Tailor poster
6.5

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.

The Happy Tailor

1945

No artwork available
9.0

The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.

Ung dam med tur

1941

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

...som en tjuv om natten poster
6.0

Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.

...som en tjuv om natten

1940

No artwork available
9.0

Lave decides to leave his hometown in order to escape murder suspicions. On his way to Killingdal, he gets right in the middle of a snow storm.

Snöstormen

1944

Hanna in High Society poster
8.3

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.

Hanna in High Society

1940

Harald Handfaste poster
6.0

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.

Harald Handfaste

1946

1930s · 8 titles

Bombi Bitt and Me poster
5.5

Bombi Bitt is the mischievous boy in 1930s Skåne whom no one can control – and the stationmaster's strict son Eli becomes his admiring companion. Together they experience a series of thrilling and cheerful adventures among characters such as Jöns Pumpare, the painter Vricklund, the sugar whore Franskan and the horse thief Nils Gallilé. The highlight is the grand visit to Kivik Market. Based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's autobiographical debut book.

Bombi Bitt and Me

1936

No artwork available
10.0

Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.

Our Building of Home and Community

1936

Kanske en diktare poster
4.0

Filip works as a coat janitor at a restaurant; he is a dreamer who has failed in life and sees people as the clothes he has in his wardrobe. On one night, three guests enter the restaurant: the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorseless manager Kurtz. Viding, who owes Kurtz money, demands Jane be accommodating toward him. Filip watches as she pulls a gun.

Kanske en diktare

1933

We Two poster
4.3

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.

We Two

1939

En melodi om våren poster
10.0

The artist Richard Stolpe paints a portrait of the beautiful blonde Gurli that leads to complications.

En melodi om våren

1933

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

No artwork available
9.0

The story about Axel Bergström who's the manager at a light bulb factory, where many women work.

Flickor på fabrik

1935

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

Behind the camera

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

Turn of the Century poster
6.0

Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Turn of the Century

1944

The Happy Tailor poster
6.5

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.

The Happy Tailor

1945

När ungdomen vaknar poster
9.0

Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.

När ungdomen vaknar

1943

No artwork available
10.0

Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.

Our Building of Home and Community

1936

No artwork available
8.0

The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.

Vi på Solgläntan

1939

No artwork available
7.0

Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.

Janne Vängman i farten

1952

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

No artwork available
7.0

Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door.

Janne Vängman på nya äventyr

1949

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

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

No artwork available
8.0

Janne Vängman is heavy drinker who always stands up for the poor and oppressed.

Janne Vängmans bravader

1948

No artwork available
8.0

A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, their relatives and the townspeople.

Du gamla du fria !

1938

No artwork available
8.0

A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, their relatives and the townspeople.

Du gamla du fria !

1938

No artwork available
10.0

A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm.

Kvinnan tar befälet

1942

Hanna in High Society poster
8.3

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.

Hanna in High Society

1940

Skeppare i blåsväder poster
7.0

The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.

Skeppare i blåsväder

1951

No artwork available
8.0

A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.

Bergslagsfolk

1937

No artwork available
8.0

A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.

Bergslagsfolk

1937

No artwork available
10.0

A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.

En äventyrare

1942

No artwork available
NR

A film about the breakthrough of the labor movement in Sweden depicted by a metal worker's point of view.

Järnets män

1935