Gunnar Olsson

Gunnar Olsson

Born: July 10, 1904
Died: September 16, 1983
in Nyköping, Södermanlands län, Sweden
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).

Movies for Gunnar Olsson...

A Stranger Came by Train
Title: A Stranger Came by Train
Released: October 28, 1974
Type: Movie
An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.
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Sagan om Siv
Title: Sagan om Siv
Released: February 25, 1974
Type: Movie
About a woman and her boring life, based on haiku poems by Sonja Åkesson.
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Deadline
Title: Deadline
Character: Kent-Arne's Father
Released: April 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A terrifying drama about what might happen in a disaster situation. An airplane loaded with bacteriological weapons crashes in the south of Sweden, causing an epidemic.
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Körsbärsträdgården
Title: Körsbärsträdgården
Character: Firs
Released: August 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
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Adam in Sweden
Title: Adam in Sweden
Character: Persson
Released: December 19, 1966
Type: Movie
Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.
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The Mistress
Title: The Mistress
Character: The Old Man (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man.
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On a Bench in a Park
Title: On a Bench in a Park
Character: Gustaf Andreas Wallin
Released: December 19, 1960
Type: Movie
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
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Mälarpirater
Title: Mälarpirater
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.
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Måsen
Title: Måsen
Released: November 20, 1959
Type: Movie
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.
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Jazz Boy
Title: Jazz Boy
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: Movie
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.
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Woman in a Fur Coat
Title: Woman in a Fur Coat
Character: Forensic Chemist
Released: September 8, 1958
Type: Movie
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?
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Bishop (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and 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.
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Som man bäddar...
Title: Som man bäddar...
Released: May 31, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Gårdarna runt sjön
Title: Gårdarna runt sjön
Character: Gardener
Released: February 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
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The Seventh Seal
Title: The Seventh Seal
Character: Albertus Pictor
Released: February 16, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Resa i natten
Title: Resa i natten
Character: Johan
Released: January 30, 1955
Type: Movie
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.
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Gabrielle
Title: Gabrielle
Character: Engkvist
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Gabrielle
Title: Gabrielle
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Skrattbomben
Title: Skrattbomben
Character: Professor Planius
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Young Summer
Title: Young Summer
Released: September 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.
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Seger i mörker
Title: Seger i mörker
Character: Anders Persson
Released: September 16, 1954
Type: Movie
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
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Dumbom
Title: Dumbom
Character: Julius
Released: December 26, 1953
Type: Movie
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.
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Summer Interlude
Title: Summer Interlude
Character: Priest
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
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Skeppare i blåsväder
Title: Skeppare i blåsväder
Released: August 28, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.
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The Girl from the Third Row
Title: The Girl from the Third Row
Character: Lilja
Released: August 29, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Vagabond Blacksmiths
Title: Vagabond Blacksmiths
Released: February 7, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Harald Handfaste
Title: Harald Handfaste
Character: Bosse Enöga
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
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.
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The Happy Tailor
Title: The Happy Tailor
Character: Parish constable
Released: December 26, 1945
Type: Movie
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.
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Klockan på Rönneberga
Title: Klockan på Rönneberga
Character: Masen, klockförsäljare
Released: March 13, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Snöstormen
Title: Snöstormen
Released: January 24, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Ung dam med tur
Title: Ung dam med tur
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.
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...som en tjuv om natten
Title: ...som en tjuv om natten
Character: Gren
Released: March 18, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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We Two
Title: We Two
Character: Bogren
Released: March 16, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Our Building of Home and Community
Title: Our Building of Home and Community
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.
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Bombi Bitt and Me
Title: Bombi Bitt and Me
Character: Nils Gallilé
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.
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Alla tiders Karlsson
Title: Alla tiders Karlsson
Released: July 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
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Flickor på fabrik
Title: Flickor på fabrik
Released: December 26, 1935
Type: Movie
The story about Axel Bergström who's the manager at a light bulb factory, where many women work.
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Atlantäventyret
Title: Atlantäventyret
Character: Bob Holgert
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Kanske en diktare
Title: Kanske en diktare
Character: Mr. Viding
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Gösta Ekman in the role as coat janitor Filip, a dreamer that has failed in life and sees people as the cloths he has in his wardrobe. 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 his wife to be accommodating toward him. Filip watches her pulling a gun...
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En melodi om våren
Title: En melodi om våren
Released: February 20, 1933
Type: Movie
The artist Richard Stolpe paints a portrait of the beautiful blonde Gurli that leads to complications.