Lars Hanson

Lars Hanson

Born: July 25, 1886
Died: April 8, 1965
in Göteborg, Sweden
Lars Hanson was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally most remembered for his starring motion picture roles during the Silent film era. In major Hollywood movies 1926-1928.

Movies for Lars Hanson...

Stjärnbilder
Title: Stjärnbilder
Character: (archive footage)
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Minns ni?
Title: Minns ni?
Character: (archive footage)
Released: October 24, 1993
Type: Movie
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Lewis Holden
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
Title: Stiller, Garbo & jag
Character: (archive footage)
Released: March 8, 1988
Type: Movie
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
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Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Title: Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Released: November 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.
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The Nuthouse
Title: The Nuthouse
Character: Överste von Blankenau (archive footage)
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
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Till the Doors of Hell
Title: Till the Doors of Hell
Character: Victor Barring
Released: November 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
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His Excellency
Title: His Excellency
Character: His Excellency Herbert von Blankenau
Released: March 3, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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There Burns a Fire
Title: There Burns a Fire
Character: Ernst Lemmering
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
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Ride Tonight!
Title: Ride Tonight!
Character: Jon Stånge
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
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The First Squadron
Title: The First Squadron
Character: Colonel Ståhlberg
Released: September 23, 1941
Type: Movie
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
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Vingar kring fyren
Title: Vingar kring fyren
Character: Knut Holmstrand
Released: October 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Norwegian sailor John. He falls in love with her, but leaves her when he is told she is engaged.
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Konflikt
Title: Konflikt
Character: Edvard Banck
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
"Conflict" - Shipbuilder Edvard Banck is busy building new ships, but forgets that his wife Birgit wants his attention and tenderness. A new engineer, Reidar Hagen, begins at the shipyard, and Birgit is immediately attracted to him. They fall in love, and Birgit decides to leave her husband. But is it possible and what will Edvard do?
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On the Sunny Side
Title: On the Sunny Side
Character: Harold Ribe
Released: February 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. When he proposes to marry her she has no work or place to live and she accepts. At Harald's estate she can live comfortably, but she misses her old friends.
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Walpurgis Night
Title: Walpurgis Night
Character: Johan Borg
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
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Do You Remember?
Title: Do You Remember?
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.
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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Title: Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Character: Self
Released: September 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.
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The Informer
Title: The Informer
Character: Gypo Nolan
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
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Sin
Title: Sin
Character: Maurice Gerard
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
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The Wind
Title: The Wind
Character: Lige
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
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Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Character: Richard
Released: August 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.
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The Divine Woman
Title: The Divine Woman
Character: Lucien
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
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Buttons
Title: Buttons
Character: Captain Travers
Released: December 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
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Captain Salvation
Title: Captain Salvation
Character: Anson Campbell
Released: May 14, 1927
Type: Movie
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
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Flesh and the Devil
Title: Flesh and the Devil
Character: Ulrich von Eltz
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
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To the Orient
Title: To the Orient
Released: February 1, 1926
Type: Movie
When Ingmar Ingmarsson marries Barbro Svensdotter there's a big party with many guests. But the bride and groom are unhappy.
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The Ingmar Inheritance
Title: The Ingmar Inheritance
Character: Ingmar Ingmarsson
Released: December 26, 1925
Type: Movie
"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.
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The Saga of Gosta Berling
Title: The Saga of Gosta Berling
Character: Gösta Berling
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
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In Self Defence
Title: In Self Defence
Released: November 7, 1921
Type: Movie
A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
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Our Daily Bread
Title: Our Daily Bread
Released: October 7, 1921
Type: Movie
In another early advertisement of her's, Greta and a group of friends have tea on the rooftop terrace of the Strand Hôtel and later have a picnic in the park.
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Erotikon
Title: Erotikon
Character: Preben Wells
Released: November 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.
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Fiskebyn
Title: Fiskebyn
Released: March 15, 1920
Type: Movie
The widower Jakob Vindås lives with his daughter and his mother in a small west coast fishing community.
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A Dangerous Proposal
Title: A Dangerous Proposal
Character: Tore Naesset
Released: December 26, 1919
Type: Movie
The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.
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The Fairy of Solbakken
Title: The Fairy of Solbakken
Character: Thorbjörn Granliden
Released: October 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.
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Song of the Scarlet Flower
Title: Song of the Scarlet Flower
Character: Olof Koskela
Released: April 14, 1919
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Title: The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Character: Gudmund Erlandsson
Released: September 9, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
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The Ballerina
Title: The Ballerina
Character: Wolo Czawienko
Released: November 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Lovers are torn apart by a noble's desire for the female half of the couple.
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Therèse
Title: Therèse
Released: October 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Therèse is a young woman who has married an older man to be able to live a wealthier life.
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The Wings
Title: The Wings
Character: Eugène Mikael
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.
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Dolken
Title: Dolken
Released: January 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Mr Bernhard has financial difficulties. He has fallen into the hands of broker Mr Pouzer. In desperation, Bernhard's daughter Julia visit Pouzer to ask for mercy for her father. Yes, Pouzer replies, if I get you in return.