Edvard Persson

Edvard Persson

Born: January 17, 1888
Died: September 19, 1957
in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
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).

Movies for Edvard Persson...

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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Där möllorna gå...
Title: Där möllorna gå...
Character: Blomster-Pelle Pettersson
Released: December 26, 1956
Type: Movie
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Blue sky
Title: Blue sky
Character: Fridolf Rundquist
Released: December 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Teacher Rundqvist who works in a school in a small town in Scania is old fashioned but loved by his pupils. When a younger teacher with new ideas of teaching starts at the school Rundqvist's methods are questioned.
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En natt på Glimmingehus
Title: En natt på Glimmingehus
Character: Nils ''Gammel-Nils'' Jeppsson
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Gammel-Nils works as a guide at Glimmingehus and guides us through this movie about love and ghosts.
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Flickan från Backafall
Title: Flickan från Backafall
Character: Silla-Sven
Released: March 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Set on the island of Ven in the 1920s, Ellen is engaged with Per the sailor and waits for him while he is away at sea. She works as a maid in a rich family where Robert, the black sheep of the family, tries to seduce her. This leads to a rumour she has been unfaithful to Per. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Greve Svensson
Title: Greve Svensson
Character: Anders Svensson
Released: December 26, 1951
Type: Movie
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Number 17
Title: Number 17
Character: Calle Svensson
Released: December 26, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Sven Tusan
Title: Sven Tusan
Released: February 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.
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Vart hjärta har sin saga
Title: Vart hjärta har sin saga
Character: baron Henrik Löwencrona af Löwstaborg
Released: September 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.
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Jens Mons in America
Title: Jens Mons in America
Character: Jens Månsson
Released: March 24, 1947
Type: Movie
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.
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The Bells in Old Town
Title: The Bells in Old Town
Character: Karl-Magnus Berg
Released: December 30, 1946
Type: Movie
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.
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The Happy Tailor
Title: The Happy Tailor
Character: Sören Sörenson
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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Turn of the Century
Title: Turn of the Century
Character: Munthe
Released: December 26, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Livet på landet
Title: Livet på landet
Character: Zakarias Bräsig
Released: November 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Greve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.
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Stinsen på Lyckås
Title: Stinsen på Lyckås
Character: Carl Malm
Released: December 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.
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Sol över Klara
Title: Sol över Klara
Character: Ararat
Released: August 3, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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Snapphanar
Title: Snapphanar
Character: Grimme-Jens
Released: December 26, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Sunny Sunberg
Title: Sunny Sunberg
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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A Sailor on Horseback
Title: A Sailor on Horseback
Character: Lasse Borg
Released: December 26, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Blyge Anton
Title: Blyge Anton
Character: Karl Anton Malm
Released: May 6, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Kalle på Spången
Title: Kalle på Spången
Character: Kalle Jeppsson
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Skanör-Falsterbo
Title: Skanör-Falsterbo
Character: Henrik Karlsson
Released: March 6, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Baldevins bröllop
Title: Baldevins bröllop
Released: September 24, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Än leva de gamla gudar
Title: Än leva de gamla gudar
Released: September 11, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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South of the Highway
Title: South of the Highway
Character: Edward Månsson
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The plot revolves around Edvar Månsson, a farmer living in Skåne, Sweden.
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Våran pojke
Title: Våran pojke
Character: Lars Blomquis, Florist
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
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".
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Larsson i andra giftet
Title: Larsson i andra giftet
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Lasse Larsson works as a baker at the bakery Gyllene Trappen in Stockholm. He loves to sing while he bakes.
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Tjocka släkten
Title: Tjocka släkten
Released: April 13, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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The Women Around Larsson
Title: The Women Around Larsson
Character: Lasse Larsson
Released: December 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Young runaway aristocrat fall in love with blacksmith's daughter.
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Flickorna från Gamla Sta'n
Title: Flickorna från Gamla Sta'n
Character: Edvard "Lasse" Larsson
Released: August 20, 1934
Type: Movie
About two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.
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Hemliga Svensson
Title: Hemliga Svensson
Character: August Olsson
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
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?
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Saturday Nights
Title: Saturday Nights
Character: Napoleon "Nappe" Johansson
Released: August 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Nappe and Johan are two friends who gets cheated by the trickster Johnny.
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Den farliga leken
Title: Den farliga leken
Character: August Vredberg, Accountant
Released: April 18, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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Augustas lilla felsteg
Title: Augustas lilla felsteg
Character: Smulle
Released: January 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Augusta (Dagmar Ebbesen) 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 (Thor Modéen) whom makes her company to her mother and step father.
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Två hjärtan och en skuta
Title: Två hjärtan och en skuta
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Young Gustaf Svensson has been warned by his father that he should stop chasing girls.
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Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr
Title: Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr
Released: September 19, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Shanty Town
Title: Shanty Town
Character: Lasse Larsson
Released: August 25, 1932
Type: Movie
About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.
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Hattmakarens bal
Title: Hattmakarens bal
Character: August Cederström
Released: November 17, 1928
Type: Movie
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.
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På kryss med Blixten
Title: På kryss med Blixten
Character: Kalle "Blixten" Svensson
Released: December 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.
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Miljonär för en dag
Title: Miljonär för en dag
Character: Kalle 'Blixten' Svensson
Released: January 23, 1926
Type: Movie
Millionaire for a Day was filmed during the summer of 1925 in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. This Edvard Persson's third film became a flop in Stockholm, but was quite successful in many rural areas all over the country.
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Den gamla herrgården
Title: Den gamla herrgården
Released: February 10, 1925
Type: Movie
A 40-minute fragment survives.
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Studenterna på Tröstehult
Title: Studenterna på Tröstehult
Character: Tobias Bruce, tutor
Released: January 15, 1924
Type: Movie
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.