Edvin Adolphson
Birthday: 1893-02-26
Place of Birth: Furingstad, Vikbolandet, Östergötlands län
Biography: Gustav Edvin Adolphson was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. He made his stage debut in 1912, his first film "Thomas Graal's Best Child" (1918), and directed the first Swedish sound film, "Säg det i toner/ The Dream Waltz" in 1929. He was actress Harriet Bosse's third husband (1927–1932) and is father of actress Kristina Adolphson (b. 1937) and songwriter/composer Olle Adolphson (1934–2004). Edvin Adolphson appeared in more than 500 roles.
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Hon trodde det var han
The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a ...
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that nig...
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Janssons frestelse
Baron von Werner and Gunnar Jansson are in a dispute over property rights. Inga, the baron's daughte...
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When Love Came to the Village
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of l...
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Ship Ahoy!
In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper A...
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Frökens första barn
Sonja Broberg needs to make extra money so she offers to help the author Johannes Porshammar with hi...
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Männen i mörker
When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet kno...
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Får jag låna din fru?
Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is ...
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Thomas Graal's Best Child
Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and...
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Darling of Mine
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of...
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One Summer of Happiness
The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estat...
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Do You Believe in Angels?
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at ...
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Only One Night
Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von Brede. ...
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The Phantom Carriage
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the l...
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The General
Maria, a young Russian student, is loved by Viktor Sabline, a Russian scientist. They marry and imme...
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The Count of the Old Town
A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentric...
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Halfway to heaven
Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpo...
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Flames in the Dark
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill...
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En svensk tiger
Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that J...
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Song of the Scarlet Flower
Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and h...
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The Wind Is My Lover
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in...
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The Sixth Shot
Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel t...
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Life Goes On
The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Swede...
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Atlantäventyret
Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way o...
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Supper for Two
Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a ske...
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On the Sunny Side
Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Har...
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Playing Truant
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her enga...
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Sceningång
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of...
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Swedish Wedding Night
A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's fath...
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General von Döbeln
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln...
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Boy of Two Worlds
A young orphan is sent to live in a Danish village where he is cast out because his mother was a Wes...
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Flottans kavaljerer
Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mi...
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Marie in the Windmill
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical b...
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A Day Will Dawn
After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by ...
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The Nuthouse
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the...
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Gustaf Wasa, Part One
The story takes its beginning in 1518 , the Danish King Christian II has taken Sweden. Sten Sture th...
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Gustaf Wasa, Part Two
King Christian II rides busy street by Sweden which he now put under him, while he remembers what he...
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With You in My Arms
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex...
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Göingehövdingen
When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to ...
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Litet bo
Hasse has received a scholarship from the insurance company where he works together with his friend ...
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A Crime
A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward th...
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A Girl of Solbakken
From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely ...
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Stjärnbilder
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and con...
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The Unicorn
Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a lo...
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The Road to Klockrike
Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to t...
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Sealed Lips
The film is based on a story by Guy de Maupausant. The story details several years in the life of co...
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Man's Woman
An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit a...
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Longing for the Sea
Marius is torn between the love for Fanny on land and the desire to go out to sea....
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To the Orient
When Ingmar Ingmarsson marries Barbro Svensdotter there's a big party with many guests. But the brid...
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Scattered Pages
Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father ...
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The Great John Ericsson
In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and b...
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Gubben kommer
The old man, Carl-Henrik de Grévy, left his family many years ago, when the stock market collapsed. ...
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One Fiancé at a Time
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men....
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The House Surrounded
Young Lieutenant Jeff Gordon is placed in an English town and he meets his loved one Mary. When the ...
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Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström
Andersson, Pettersson and Lundström goes out for a long walk with Stockholm as a goal. On the way th...
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The Flying Dutchman
Pelle Frisk is second-in-command on the S/S Hispania. He is a fighter and a ladies man and known as ...
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Johan Ulfstjerna
It's the last night of 1899. In Helsingfors they celebrate the new millennium. The students at the u...
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Dollar
Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class million...
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Thomas Graal's Ward
Paul is a student does not devote to much time for studies. He enjoys the pleasures of life. Babette...
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A Scarlet Angel
The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. I...
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Begär
Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a...
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Ingen väg tillbaka
The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. Wh...
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Hamlet
Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His unc...
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Anderssonskans Kalle på nya upptåg
The mischievous Anderssonskans Kalle gets adopted by Director Graham and moves from the working-clas...
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Paradiset
The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. ...
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Vingslag i natten
Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationshi...
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En kvinna ombord
In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. T...
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Prins hatt under jorden
A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to f...
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Sällskapslek
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an el...
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Pärlemor
Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over bot...
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The Summer Wind Blows
Claus, an unhappy 28 year old Norwegian insurance company employee quits his job in Oslo and heads f...
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Fröken Kyrkråtta
Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi L...
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Triumph of the Heart
In a small mine town north of the circle, Torsten lives, working with his sister Eva and comrade Lar...
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The Gallows Man
The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his d...
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Enchanted Journey
A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the sho...
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Laila
Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home ...
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Av hjärtans lust
The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. T...
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Rolling Sea
"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice...
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The Quartet That Split Up
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the s...
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Ryska snuvan
"The Russian Cold" - Kalle Brodin, the leader of the Swedish communists, just released from a short ...
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The Phantom Carriage
The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets ki...
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Modern Wives
The architect Georg Wall is sitting in his spacious Stockholm apartment. He has been waiting several...
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Man's Way with Women
Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job...
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The Honeymoon
Director Björkman travels to Copenhagen with his daughter Astrid, who is together with a certain Cou...
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In Self Defence
A wealthy Russian family faces change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War....
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Friaren från landsvägen
Gösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter....
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Bröllopet i Bränna
The farmer Emanuels mother Ingrid wants him to marry his cousin Maja Sofia....
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Där fyren blinkar
The lighthouse keeper Lang has become a loner since his little daughter drowned in the sea....
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Åsa-Hanna
Hanna lives in a small village in Småland together with her parents. She is the most beautiful girl ...
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Wanted
A woman sitting in a Stockholm cafe hears to her surprise on the radio that she is wanted by the pol...
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Man glömmer ingenting
When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold i...
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She Is the Only One
Love entanglements among the upper class of Paris. The young upper-class Parisian Valentin van Zante...
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The Wedding Day
Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar....
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The People from Simlangs Valley
Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland....
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Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood....
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The Dream Waltz
This is the story of Olof Svensson who works as a streetcar conductor in Stockholm. In his free time...
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Hård klang
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German op...
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The Pot Journey
Based on the novel by Edith Unnerstad about a man, Pip Larsson, who invents a new kind of pot which ...
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Love and Deficit
Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now th...
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Giftas
The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have ki...
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The Tales of Ensign Stål
Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War betwe...
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Love's Crucible
At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she ...
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The Gyurkovics Boys
Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just pr...
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A Goat in the Garden
The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who ...
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The Two of Us
Widower Robert Rossiter lives in New York with his two teenage children. When he visits a fashion ho...
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The Smugglers
Anne Marie (Lili Lani) gets invited by her aunt to a hotel to to meet her admirers. Not to fulfill h...
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