Edvard Persson

Acting

Edvard Persson

Born — Died

1888-01-17 — 1957-09-19

Place of birth

Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Carl Edvard Persson (17 January 1888, in Sankt Pauli parish, Malmö, Scania – 19 September 1957, in Helsingborg, Scania) was a celebrated Swedish actor, director and singer. During his time, he was well-known in the entire country, but through many of his films and songs, he is often associated with his home province, Scania (Swedish and Danish: Skåne).

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 6 titles

1940s · 15 titles

Glada paraden poster
NR

Anthology film made from clips from films starring Swedish actor Edvard Persson. The film was produced for Persson’s 60th birthday and starts off with a prologue created for this movie, portraying the star’s youth.

Glada paraden

1948

Jens Mons in America poster
5.0

Jens Månsson has big financial problems and realizes that he probably has to leave his dear Skåne farm Gåsabo. But suddenly, he inherits a fortune from his brother John in America.

Jens Mons in America

1947

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

Blyge Anton poster
7.0

Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.

Blyge Anton

1940

Snapphanar poster
6.0

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.

Snapphanar

1941

The Bells in Old Town poster
6.7

Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.

The Bells in Old Town

1946

Life in the Country poster
10.0

Greve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.

Life in the Country

1943

No artwork available
8.0

Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.

Sven Tusan

1949

The Station Master poster
7.0

Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.

The Station Master

1942

Sunny Sunberg poster
NR

Gunnar Solberg is subjected to a robbery attempt at the cafe he owns. However, he stops the robbery and gets the robber to be honorable again.

Sunny Sunberg

1941

No artwork available
5.7

Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance by Karl Gustav posing as the heir of the castle.

A Sailor on Horseback

1940

No artwork available
6.5

Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.

Vart hjärta har sin saga

1948

Number 17 poster
7.0

The sailor Calle Svensson gets a tip on a cheap hotel from a stranger. But Calle walks to the wrong house. And finds a dead man in the bed, stolen passports and signs of trafficking in a cupboard.

Number 17

1949

Sun Over Klara poster
6.0

The film is about a group of artists in the Klara Quarter. Ararat, a poor painter in Stockholm, one day meet his ex-fiance Elisabeth who is now a rich widow.

Sun Over Klara

1942

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

1930s · 17 titles

The Paymaster poster
8.7

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.

The Paymaster

1939

No artwork available
10.0

Lasse Larsson works as a baker at the bakery Gyllene Trappen in Stockholm. He loves to sing while he bakes.

Larsson i andra giftet

1935

Shanty Town poster
6.0

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

Shanty Town

1932

Två hjärtan och en skuta poster
10.0

Young Gustaf Svensson has been warned by his father that he should stop chasing girls.

Två hjärtan och en skuta

1932

Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr poster
8.0

A traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.

Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr

1932

Charlie the Innkeeper poster
5.3

Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "Spången" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.

Charlie the Innkeeper

1939

No artwork available
9.0

Lasse Larsson's friend, Johan Jansson, are in trouble because of his wife. She has told her American relatives that her husband is a consul. When the relatives from America announce a visit, Lasse has to help to keep up the lie.

Close Relations

1935

No artwork available
9.0

Napolean Pettersson is a placid, contented small town storekeeper transplanted into a fashionable big-city home by his overly-ambitious family. He attempts to adjust himself to his new life, but everything he does is inevitably wrong...and funny. Finally he rebels at the members of his family who forced him into these situations, and leaves to take up where he left off at his store.

Old Titans Are Still Here

1937

Våran pojke poster
7.0

A rampant musical comedy drama about petty crimes, a seven year old boy and lots of rumble. A Swedish version of the play "Bouleboule gewinnt".

Våran pojke

1936

The Girls from the Old Town poster
7.0

About two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.

The Girls from the Old Town

1934

South of the Highway poster
8.0

The plot revolves around Edvar Månsson, a farmer living in Skåne, Sweden.

South of the Highway

1936

Augustas lilla felsteg poster
5.3

Augusta and her man receives a letter from the countryside one day therein her come-by-chance daughter Lisa announces her arrival to Stockholm. During the travel Lisa befriends Holger whom makes her company to her mother and step father.

Augustas lilla felsteg

1933

No artwork available
8.0

A comedy in which the noted and rotund Swedish comedian, Edvard Persson, plays the title role (Baldevin), as a waterfront tramp leading his chosen life-style of indolence. A friend urges him to wage a courtship of a rich widow, which he does and manages to get involved in many humorous situations in the process.

Baldevins bröllop

1938

The Women Around Larsson poster
6.8

Young runaway aristocrat fall in love with blacksmith's daughter.

The Women Around Larsson

1934

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

Saturday Nights poster
7.0

Nappe and Johan are two friends who gets cheated by the trickster Johnny.

Saturday Nights

1933

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

1920s · 7 titles

Behind the camera

The Paymaster poster
8.7

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.

The Paymaster

1939

No artwork available
8.5

When Count Sebastian Furucrona dies, his will states that if his long lost son, Rickard, doesn’t reappear within the next decade, his estate will be inherited by it’s temporary caretaker, Joachim Harden.

Millionaire for a Day

1926

No artwork available
8.5

When Count Sebastian Furucrona dies, his will states that if his long lost son, Rickard, doesn’t reappear within the next decade, his estate will be inherited by it’s temporary caretaker, Joachim Harden.

Millionaire for a Day

1926

No artwork available
10.0

Lasse Larsson works as a baker at the bakery Gyllene Trappen in Stockholm. He loves to sing while he bakes.

Larsson i andra giftet

1935

The Students at Tröstehult poster
6.0

Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.

The Students at Tröstehult

1924

The Students at Tröstehult poster
6.0

Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.

The Students at Tröstehult

1924

Cruising with the Lightning poster
6.7

Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.

Cruising with the Lightning

1927

Cruising with the Lightning poster
6.7

Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.

Cruising with the Lightning

1927

Charlie the Innkeeper poster
5.3

Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "Spången" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.

Charlie the Innkeeper

1939

No artwork available
9.0

Bertil Bergencrantz dislikes that his daughter Ann-Margret falls in love with the student Torsten. To prevent their romance, he tries to marry the daughter with the young Count Cronhielm. A 40-minute fragment survives.

The Old Manor

1925

No artwork available
9.0

Bertil Bergencrantz dislikes that his daughter Ann-Margret falls in love with the student Torsten. To prevent their romance, he tries to marry the daughter with the young Count Cronhielm. A 40-minute fragment survives.

The Old Manor

1925

What a Woman Wants poster
8.0

Harry Willis is a slob and a bacchant. He is therefore abandoned by his wife Maggi.

What a Woman Wants

1927

What a Woman Wants poster
8.0

Harry Willis is a slob and a bacchant. He is therefore abandoned by his wife Maggi.

What a Woman Wants

1927

No artwork available
6.5

Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.

Vart hjärta har sin saga

1948

No artwork available
8.0

A comedy in which the noted and rotund Swedish comedian, Edvard Persson, plays the title role (Baldevin), as a waterfront tramp leading his chosen life-style of indolence. A friend urges him to wage a courtship of a rich widow, which he does and manages to get involved in many humorous situations in the process.

Baldevins bröllop

1938

The Hatter’s Ball poster
6.0

The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.

The Hatter’s Ball

1928

The Hatter’s Ball poster
6.0

The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.

The Hatter’s Ball

1928

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

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