Isa Quensel

Isa Quensel

Born: September 21, 1905
Died: November 3, 1981
in Göteborg, Göteborg- och Bohus län, Sweden
Isa Quensel (21 September 1905 – 3 November 1981) was a Swedish actress and operatic soprano who appeared in over 50 films, plays, operas, TV and radio shows.

Movies for Isa Quensel...

Barnet
Title: Barnet
Character: Nina
Released: April 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Two women and a mentally ill daughter live in an isolated cabin for a couple of summer days.
bee
Title: Skeppsredaren
Character: Britta
Released: March 8, 1979
Type: TV
bee
Title: Ärliga blå ögon
Character: Fru Nardin
Released: April 9, 1977
Type: TV
A young female scammer relying on her innocent blue eyes and ability to disguise herself tries to avoid the police that are getting ever closer.
bee
Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
Title: Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
Character: Aunt Tilda (voice)
Released: November 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Two villains escape from jail in London. They are planning an attack on Agaton Sax. Inspector Lispington and Sax are chasing the two bad guys, but the hunt is hampered by the villains have lookalikes.
bee
Emil and the Piglet
Title: Emil and the Piglet
Character: Krösa-Maja (voice)
Released: October 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Nursing a piglet back to life because it's the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.
bee
Emil of Lonneberga
Title: Emil of Lonneberga
Character: Krösa-Maja (voice)
Released: December 4, 1971
Type: Movie
Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but often with catastrophic results, especially for his short-tempered father. As a result, Emil spends a lot of quality time in the wood shed carving wood figurines and waiting for Anton's temper to cool down. And the father's patience is certainly tried, as Emil gets his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl, hoists little Ida up the flag pole, and arranges a lavish Christmas party for the poor.
bee
Den yttersta dagen
Title: Den yttersta dagen
Character: Märta
Released: November 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Magnus, an old man sleeplessly sneaks around at night in barns and fields at the farm his son Lennart has taken over. Magnus is anxious and impatient facing the next day.
bee
Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr
Title: Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr
Character: Hilda Krikonblad
Released: December 26, 1966
Type: Movie
The White Rose (Kalle, Eva-Lotta and Anders) and the Red Rose (Sixten, Benka and Jonte) gangs are battling for a magical stone. The rest of the time Kalle is bored. That is why Kalle and his friends play pranks on Kalles aunts Hilda and Hulda. While Hulda is laughing, Hilda is very angry and calls the police, but Kalle is able to escape. Only a few time later Hilda is kidnapped and the kidnappers want a lot of money. The gangs of the White and Red Rose are now working together to find the kidnappers.
bee
Woman of Darkness
Title: Woman of Darkness
Character: Grave-Karna
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago and he and his mother have for a long time been in a incestuous relationship. But Per marries Hanna for the sake of her money and Anna is mean and evil towards her, and Per refuses to have sex with her. She starts to suspect that something is going on between her husband and stepmother.
bee
Tartuffe
Title: Tartuffe
Released: September 19, 1966
Type: Movie
The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying to seduce the young wife.
bee
Doktor Knock
Title: Doktor Knock
Character: Mrs. Parpalaid
Released: April 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.
bee
The Cats
Title: The Cats
Character: Tora
Released: February 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a rumor that Marta is a lesbian and that she once tried to seduce Rike. This leads to an explosive situation at the workplace.
bee
Loving Couples
Title: Loving Couples
Character: Fredrika von Strussenhjelm
Released: December 20, 1964
Type: Movie
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
bee
To Love
Title: To Love
Character: Märta
Released: November 20, 1964
Type: Movie
A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During their marriage she never felt a thing during sex. Then she meets a lively Pole and begins an affair. Suddenly she finds herself feeling a great deal, and happiness ensues.
bee
Swedish Wedding Night
Title: Swedish Wedding Night
Character: Hilma Palm
Released: August 23, 1964
Type: Movie
A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.
bee
Sällskapslek
Title: Sällskapslek
Character: Agda Stjernesten
Released: December 16, 1963
Type: Movie
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.
bee
Pärlemor
Title: Pärlemor
Character: Gertrud Odenstam
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
bee
Two Living, One Dead
Title: Two Living, One Dead
Character: Miss Larousse
Released: April 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
bee
Do You Believe in Angels?
Title: Do You Believe in Angels?
Character: Louise Günther
Released: January 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
bee
Spökhotellet
Title: Spökhotellet
Character: fru Boniface
Released: April 17, 1960
Type: Movie
A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.
bee
Åke and His World
Title: Åke and His World
Character: Aunt Göta
Released: October 31, 1959
Type: Movie
A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.
bee
Laila
Title: Laila
Character: Elli Logje
Released: November 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.
bee
The Phantom Carriage
Title: The Phantom Carriage
Character: Maria
Released: September 18, 1958
Type: Movie
The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.
bee
Playing on the Rainbow
Title: Playing on the Rainbow
Released: August 25, 1958
Type: Movie
The school counselor Vanja believe neither in love, marriage or a woman's subservient role to the man. One day she meets the student Björn. Their romance is full of problems. Along comes a man from Vanjas past.
bee
Kostervalsen
Title: Kostervalsen
Character: Doris Fågelström
Released: March 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Pelle and Maja are going on a holiday to Italy. The trip is canceled. Maja travels home to her mother. Pelle is persuaded by his friend Kurt to forget Italy and accompany him to Swedish west coast instead.
bee
The Lady in Black
Title: The Lady in Black
Character: Cecilia von Schilden
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
bee
Sjutton år
Title: Sjutton år
Character: Agnes Bentick
Released: December 21, 1957
Type: Movie
It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.
bee
Guest at One's Own Home
Title: Guest at One's Own Home
Character: Mrs. Lannert
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.
bee
Gårdarna runt sjön
Title: Gårdarna runt sjön
Character: Mathilde
Released: February 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
bee
Moon Over Hellesta
Title: Moon Over Hellesta
Character: Emmy Anckarberg
Released: November 24, 1956
Type: Movie
Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
bee
The Unicorn
Title: The Unicorn
Character: Harriet's mother
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?
bee
Marianne
Title: Marianne
Character: Marianne's mother
Released: September 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.
bee
Wanted
Title: Wanted
Released: February 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A woman sitting in a Stockholm cafe hears to her surprise on the radio that she is wanted by the police.
bee
Lyckliga Vestköping
Title: Lyckliga Vestköping
Character: Anne-Marie Brandt
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
bee
En flicka kommer till sta'n
Title: En flicka kommer till sta'n
Released: February 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.
bee
Flickorna på Uppåkra
Title: Flickorna på Uppåkra
Character: Elsa Brummel
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The widow Maja Brummell lives in Stockholm with her daughters Elsa, Brita, Ann-Marie, Svea and Ingrid. Mrs. Brummell has a lousy business sense.
bee
Min svärmor - dansösen
Title: Min svärmor - dansösen
Released: October 25, 1936
Type: Movie
From Barcelona, the widower Svante Holmenius travel with his daughter Sylvia to visit her close friends in Stockholm.
bee
Raggen - det är jag det
Title: Raggen - det är jag det
Character: Raggen
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Maria, who's called Raggen, is one of a total of 9 daughters in the family. For a birthday present, Raggen gets a trip to Paris.
bee
Äventyr på hotell
Title: Äventyr på hotell
Released: February 21, 1934
Type: Movie
At the Carlssons hotel in Stockholm we find unemployed actor Gunnar Berg, whose father owns Sundsvalls Steel mill and wants the son to enter the company. But the son prefers to sit and wait for roles together with his friend Jan Jansson.
bee
Falska Greta
Title: Falska Greta
Character: Lisa
Released: February 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman on vacation is mistaken for Greta Garbo.
bee
Kärlek och dynamit
Title: Kärlek och dynamit
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The engineer Ragge has taken shipowner Gustafsson's daughter Anna-Greta on a sail cruise and they stay on an island overnight. When the shipowner finds out, Ragge gets sacked from the shipyard where he works.
bee
Pettersson & Bendel
Title: Pettersson & Bendel
Character: Elsa Wallin
Released: September 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.
bee
Hemslavinnor
Title: Hemslavinnor
Released: April 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The Rosenqvist family needs domestic help.
bee
Muntra musikanter
Title: Muntra musikanter
Released: November 19, 1932
Type: Movie
It's Walpurgis Night in Uppsala. The students sing the Student Song, put on their white caps, cheer and have drinks.
bee
Kärleksexpressen
Title: Kärleksexpressen
Released: October 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Dentist Weber practices in the small town of Vårköping and gets into love trouble.
bee
We must have love
Title: We must have love
Released: January 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Olivia and Charles Dangerfield are forced to rent their home to the newly rich widow, Mrs Falkner.