Art

Yngve Gamlin

Born March 17, 1926 · Strömsund, Jämtlands län, Sweden

Died February 1, 1995 · aged 68

Yngve Gamlin (17 March 1926 – 1 February 1995) was a Swedish actor and film director. His 1965 film The Chasers was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. Gamlin was also President of the humorous micronation the Republic of Jamtland from 1963 to 1983.

Known For

The Adventures of Picasso

The Adventures of Picasso · 1978

The Adventures of Picasso

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

Dance Around the Guldbaggen · 1964

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

MovieDocumentary

Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.

The Staffan Stolle Story

The Staffan Stolle Story · 1956

The Staffan Stolle Story

MovieRomanceComedy

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

Release the Prisoners to Spring!

Release the Prisoners to Spring! · 1975

Release the Prisoners to Spring!

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.

I dur och skur

I dur och skur · 1953

MovieComedyMusic

"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.

I rök och dans

I rök och dans · 1954

I rök och dans

Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.

Barna från Blåsjöfjället

Barna från Blåsjöfjället · 1980

Barna från Blåsjöfjället

MovieFamilyAdventure

A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent plan. They set out on a epic journey down thru Sweden, from Lappland down to Stockholm in search of their father. They encounter many people on their journey and make new friends while trying too elude the police.

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna · 1959

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna

In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th century.

Filmography

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The Adventures of Picasso

The Adventures of Picasso · 1978

The Adventures of Picasso

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.

Djagilev

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

Dance Around the Guldbaggen · 1964

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

MovieDocumentary

Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.

Director

The Staffan Stolle Story

The Staffan Stolle Story · 1956

The Staffan Stolle Story

MovieRomanceComedy

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

Production Design

Release the Prisoners to Spring!

Release the Prisoners to Spring! · 1975

Release the Prisoners to Spring!

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.

Production Design

I dur och skur

I dur och skur · 1953

MovieComedyMusic

"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.

I rök och dans

I rök och dans · 1954

I rök och dans

Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.

Director

Barna från Blåsjöfjället

Barna från Blåsjöfjället · 1980

Barna från Blåsjöfjället

MovieFamilyAdventure

A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent plan. They set out on a epic journey down thru Sweden, from Lappland down to Stockholm in search of their father. They encounter many people on their journey and make new friends while trying too elude the police.

Governor

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna · 1959

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna

In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th century.

Präst

Är du inte riktigt klok?

Är du inte riktigt klok? · 1964

Är du inte riktigt klok?

Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with another man, Hans instead becomes jealous and realizes his true love for Ellen.

Director

Miss Chic

Miss Chic · 1959

Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.

Professor Gårdvar

The Chasers

The Chasers · 1965

A policeman and a teacher go after a desperado in northern Sweden.

Director

Whoops!

Whoops! · 1955

MovieComedyMystery

A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.

Production Design

Badarna

Badarna · 1968

It's a hot summer day in Näsviken, a small northern community on the verge of extinction, in structural change Sweden. The summer tourists gives some extra income but ironmonger Berglund can not keep the range of temporary guests require. Bud, whose wife Minni sunk into alcoholism due to her man's lack of interest. Bud consoles himself with a strong, viable woman with uncomplicated erotic habits.

Director

The Halo Is Slipping

The Halo Is Slipping · 1957

The Halo Is Slipping

MovieComedyRomance

A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Art Direction

Semestersångarna

Semestersångarna · 1962

Semestersångarna

MovieComedyMusic

Povel Ramel's 1962 show as filmed for television. This time the usual gang of four is joined by promising young comedian Hasse Alfredsson.

Production Design

The Great Amateur

The Great Amateur · 1958

The Great Amateur

Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.

Costume Design

Sommar och syndare

Sommar och syndare · 1960

Sommar och syndare

Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.

Prof. Cornelius

Funny Boy

Funny Boy · 1961

MovieMusicRomance

Ad man Jonathan Blake gets tired of his work and runs away to a time travel agency for the first flight out.

Production Design

Elsa får piano

Elsa får piano · 1973

Elsa får piano

MovieComedyTV Movie

Philip is a grass widower who suddenly wants to buy a piano to his wife before she's back home, but it's Saturday and the time is short.

Director

The Square

The Square · 1960

MovieComedyMusic

A series of modernist sketches. A bunch of songs by Olle Adolphson, Owe Thörnqvist, Beppe Wolgers and Lars Forsell are performed in the film. The most famous, Mitt egen land, is sung by Monica Nielsen. Three years before it was first heard on record, then by the composer himself, Olle Adolphson.

Production Design

Dax igen

Dax igen · 1964

MovieComedyMusic

10 year anniversary revue for the Knäppupp company, performances of both old and new material.

Production Design

Charleys tant

Charleys tant · 1979

Theatre production of Charley's Aunt shot for TV.

Production Design