Jan Nygren

Jan Nygren

Born: April 10, 1934

Movies for Jan Nygren...

Monopoly
Title: Monopoly
Character: Viking Holm
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Egil (Knut Agnred) is just an ordinary painter. But one day, when he's about to paint a fence, incredible stuff starts to happen!
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Gökboet
Title: Gökboet
Character: Doktor Spivey
Released: April 3, 1996
Type: Movie
McMurphy pretends to be mad to avoid a prison sentence but existence in the mental hospital is not what he imagined.
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The Searchers
Title: The Searchers
Released: March 26, 1993
Type: Movie
Jocke has grown up in one of Stockholm's rough suburbs. Nowadays he spends the daytime getting into trouble at school and going into Stockholm in the evenings and getting into even more trouble. After being sentenced to prison he meets Tony. After their release they begin a series of robberies.
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The Accidental Golfer
Title: The Accidental Golfer
Character: The toastmaster manager
Released: December 25, 1991
Type: Movie
I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately Stig-Helmer is standing nearby when the boyfriend accepts the bet, and he is chosen to be the competitor. Stig-Helmer has never played the game before, but his Norwegian friend Ole promises to help him.
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Who Framed Harry Lund?
Title: Who Framed Harry Lund?
Released: August 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Harry Lund is having a bad day. First he gets fired. And then loses his entire fortune at an illegal gambling club. On his way out, he is assaulted and drugged by unknown men, and wakes up in a car with another man. A very dead man. A very murdered man. And Harry's penknife sticks out of his body. Harry flees in panic to Stockholm. And now not only the bad guys are close on his heels - but also the police...
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Hassel 02 - Beskyddarna
Title: Hassel 02 - Beskyddarna
Character: "Hjortfot", criminal detective
Released: October 17, 1986
Type: Movie
The criminal police is investigating a criminal gang blackmailing restaurant owners.
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Title: Hassel
Character: "Hjortfot", criminal detective
Released: October 11, 1986
Type: TV
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Eagle Island
Title: Eagle Island
Character: Submarine Commander
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
An island with a secret military base is attacked by terrorists. It's up to two female photographers and a gang of Ninjas to stop it.
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The Return of the Time Machine
Title: The Return of the Time Machine
Character: Morges
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry
Title: The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry
Character: The Colleague
Released: September 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old dynamiter Dynamite-Harry and he ruins the plan. Sickan is arrested, and has to spend 10 months in a small, locked room. When he is released, he has a new plan, but Rocky and Vanheden have decided to go straight. Together with Dynamite-Harry, Sickan plans to rob a cold store, managed by their arch-enemy, Wall-Enberg.
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Montenegro
Title: Montenegro
Character: Police Officer
Released: October 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.
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The Grass Is Singing
Title: The Grass Is Singing
Character: Doctor
Released: August 30, 1981
Type: Movie
In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
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Lysistrate
Title: Lysistrate
Released: March 15, 1981
Type: Movie
The women of Athens plotting to end the war with Sparta by refusing to have sex until there is peace.
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Madicken of June Hill
Title: Madicken of June Hill
Character: Överläraren
Released: October 18, 1980
Type: Movie
A second movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about two sisters and their adventures in 1910s Sweden.
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Sverige åt svenskarna
Title: Sverige åt svenskarna
Released: July 31, 1980
Type: Movie
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
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Sagan om den lilla Farbrorn
Title: Sagan om den lilla Farbrorn
Character: Berättare
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
Title: You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
Character: Rektorn
Released: December 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Madicken is a Swedish girl from the upper level family, growing up during the time of first world war which did not include Sweden. She lives happily with her family, experiencing the world and making brave and crazy things.
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Kejsaren
Title: Kejsaren
Character: Caretaker at St. Lars
Released: February 24, 1979
Type: Movie
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
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Det är din boll, Jim
Title: Det är din boll, Jim
Character: Johan Öman
Released: May 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Jim Jansson is a woodcarver who gets retired.
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Men Can't Be Raped
Title: Men Can't Be Raped
Released: February 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.
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The Brothers Lionheart
Title: The Brothers Lionheart
Character: Veder
Released: September 23, 1977
Type: Movie
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away they meet again in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the evil tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the The Ancient Mountains.
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Title: Ärliga blå ögon
Character: Lägenhetsuthyraren
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.
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Title: Emil of Lönneberga
Character: Auktionsutroparen
Released: November 22, 1975
Type: TV
Emil i Lönneberga is a Swedish television adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Emil i Lönneberga books
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Title: Pojken med guldbyxorna
Released: November 9, 1975
Type: TV
Pojken med guldbyxorna is a 1975 Swedish TV-series, based on an 1967 novel by Max Lundgren, that became very popular in Sweden and has since been shown numerous times on Swedish television. The version now broadcast on TV4 Guld consists of episodes cut into 30 minutes each. The plot revolves around a boy who discovers that he is able to pull an infinite number of banknotes from the pockets of his jeans.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Title: Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Character: Speaker in Commercial
Released: March 17, 1975
Type: Movie
A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
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Faneflukt
Title: Faneflukt
Character: Johansson
Released: March 13, 1975
Type: Movie
The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Released: December 31, 1974
Type: Movie
The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.
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Parade
Title: Parade
Character: Circus Manager (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many spectacles, including clowns, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, and more, Parade also focuses on the spectators, making this stripped-down work a testament to the communion between audience and entertainment.
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Karlsson on the Roof
Title: Karlsson on the Roof
Character: Karlsson (Voice)
Released: December 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life, who can fly using a propeller on his back and who lives in his little house on the roof.
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En enkel melodi
Title: En enkel melodi
Character: Fire station manager
Released: August 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Young Felix is a trainee at a fire station, but he is afraid of heights and can not stand the sight of blood. His future as a fireman is doubtful and when he is suspended he steals an ambulance to prove his mettle.
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Gustav III
Title: Gustav III
Character: Badin
Released: April 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
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Title: Någonstans i Sverige
Character: Stora Norrland
Released: December 25, 1973
Type: TV
In the end of 1939, the Soviet Union attacks Finland. In Sweden, 100.000 men are quickly drafted to guard the northeastern border. Men, who have almost no military training, are suddenly expected to behave as full-fledged soldiers. In one of the units we find 107 Andersson, 111 Loffe and a bunch of men with nicknames as Morsgrisen and Stora Norrland. After some months, the war in Finland is over, but World War II continues and the unit moves to the western border of Sweden, where the men have to stay for many years to come. Sweden is not at war, but some of the men are frightened that the Nazis will one day attack this country.
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Emil and the Piglet
Title: Emil and the Piglet
Character: Auctioneer
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.
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Love Is Not a Game
Title: Love Is Not a Game
Character: Man
Released: September 3, 1971
Type: Movie
When stewardess Lillemor falls in love with her ​​jazz ballet teacher Robert, a black American man, relatives and friends take offense at their relationship.
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You're Lying!
Title: You're Lying!
Released: October 26, 1969
Type: Movie
About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.