Acting

Stig Olin

Born September 11, 1920 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Died June 28, 2008 · aged 87

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stig Olin (September 11, 1920 – June 28, 2008) was a Swedish actor, theatre director, songwriter and singer. Father of actress Lena Olin and Swedish singer Mats Olin. He was married to actress Britta Holmberg. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stig Olin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Swinging at the Castle

Swinging at the Castle · 1959

Swinging at the Castle

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Swing it, fröken

Swing it, fröken · 1956

Swing it, fröken

There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Hur tokigt som helst

Hur tokigt som helst · 1949

Hur tokigt som helst

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.

Ordet

Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.

Divorced

Divorced · 1951

MovieDramaRomance

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

Port of Call

Port of Call · 1948

MovieRomanceDrama

A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.

Two People

Two People · 1945

Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarising the work of an old professor. Later, he is blamed for the professor's murder.

The Yellow Squadron

The Yellow Squadron · 1954

The Yellow Squadron

MovieActionDrama

The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.

Filmography

Sort

Swinging at the Castle

Swinging at the Castle · 1959

Swinging at the Castle

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Writer

Swing it, fröken

Swing it, fröken · 1956

Swing it, fröken

There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Director

Hur tokigt som helst

Hur tokigt som helst · 1949

Hur tokigt som helst

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.

Ordet

Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.

Anders

Divorced

Divorced · 1951

MovieDramaRomance

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

Hans, högskolestuderande, Gertruds svärson

Port of Call

Port of Call · 1948

MovieRomanceDrama

A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.

Thomas (uncredited)

Two People

Two People · 1945

Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarising the work of an old professor. Later, he is blamed for the professor's murder.

Svenning

The Yellow Squadron

The Yellow Squadron · 1954

The Yellow Squadron

MovieActionDrama

The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.

Director

Summer Interlude

Summer Interlude · 1951

Summer Interlude

MovieDramaRomance

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

Ballet instructor

Prison

A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.

Peter

Barabbas

Barabbas · 1953

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Member of Barabbas' Gang

Torment

Torment · 1944

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.

Sandman, student

The Sin of Anna Lans

The Sin of Anna Lans · 1943

The Sin of Anna Lans

MovieDramaRomance

At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.

Arne

Jim and the Pirates Blom

Jim and the Pirates Blom · 1987

Jim and the Pirates Blom

MovieFamilyComedy

Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town. His father has passed away recently, but comes back in Jim's fantasies to tell stories. In his daydreams, Jim has all kinds of adventures.

Potatis-Algot

To Joy

MovieRomanceDrama

A young orchestra violinist’s fear of mediocrity and drive for artistic success strain his marriage to a fellow musician. Told largely in flashback and shaped by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the film examines ambition, love, and loss in early Ingmar Bergman.

Stig Eriksson

Time of the Wolf

Time of the Wolf · 1988

Time of the Wolf

The young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a group of gypsies who welcome him. They met Arild earlier and believe that the brother is Arild. Inge falls in love with the mysterious girl Isis.

Tiggaren

The Girl from the Third Row

The Girl from the Third Row · 1949

The Girl from the Third Row

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Kalle Nilsson

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.

Director

Crisis

MovieDramaRomance

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's biological mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Jack

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall · 1944

The Invisible Wall

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

Worker (uncredited)

Farlig kurva

Farlig kurva · 1952

MovieDramaComedy

Christer is a teenager who prefers to spend his time on motorcycles instead of his studies which doesn't impress his father. There is also a youth motorcycle gang terrorising the local girls but Christer doesn't dare to stand up to them, leading to his humiliation. One day he comes into contact with a professional speedway racer who takes him under his wing.

Tjoffe

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.

Writer

This Can't Happen Here

This Can't Happen Here · 1950

This Can't Happen Here

MovieMysteryThriller

A story of two married refugees from the dictatorship; their quiet life in a new free country is impossible due to the husband's dark secret.

Young Man

Eva

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.

Göran Bolin

Kvällspressen

Kvällspressen · 1992

SeriesDramaCrime

The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm.