Karl-Arne Holmsten
Birthday: 1911-08-14
Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
Biography: Karl-Arne Holmsten was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He made his film debut in Ragnar Arvedson's "Kustens glada kavaljerer" in 1938. Karl-Arne Holmsten portrayed the elegant detective John Hillman in five films by Arne Mattsson, based on Folke Mellvig's novels. He also played Maria Lang's detective Christer Wijk in two films.
Movies
The Yellow Squadron
The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boar...
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Rider in Blue
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding sch...
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Dance on Roses
Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is u...
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Girl with Hyacinths
A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes ...
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Secrets of Women
The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in ...
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Vi på Väddö
Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a qua...
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When Darkness Falls
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. S...
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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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The Lady in Black
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a frie...
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Mannequin in Red
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman i...
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The Yellow Car
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the Preside...
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Lady in White
A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted ...
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A Sailor on Horseback
Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask th...
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Blyge Anton
Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a rai...
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Rospiggar
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. H...
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Örlogsmän
The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for ...
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Swinging at the Castle
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family....
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Fridolf sticker opp!
A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert...
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Each to His Own Way
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she marr...
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects......
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Two Vikings
The viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers....
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Puck heter jag
Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, wh...
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Sju vackra flickor
Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece wo...
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Resan till dej
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a br...
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A Guest Is Coming
It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The fo...
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Farlig vår
A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a s...
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Mamma tar semester
Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and i...
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Försummad av sin fru
Pelle (Karl-Arne Holmsten) and Siska (Irma Christenson) Hedberg are both journalists on the same new...
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Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of the...
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Kvinna i vitt
Doctor Karin Lange arrives at a hospital to begin work but faces opposition from the head of surgery...
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Gröna hissen
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having...
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Like Everyone Else
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just ...
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My Passionate Longing
The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband....
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We Home Toilers
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson famil...
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Älskling på vift
What happens if a regular housewife picks up in a local beauty contest - and wins? How will it be wh...
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Spöke till salu
The Creutzerhjelm's are in search of an authentic haunted castle. Therefore, the owner of the castle...
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Kvinnan tar befälet
A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm....
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Du gamla du fria !
A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his nativ...
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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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Säg det med blommor
Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an ill...
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Dolly tar chansen
Dolly Holm work as a waitress, but her big dream is to stand on stage and act....
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Kustens glada kavaljerer
The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under pr...
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En flicka för mej
The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma....
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Frestelse
A young Norwegian woman lives in a remote fishing village Dreaming of life in the big city, she send...
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Ung dam med tur
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States....
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Daddy Wanted
Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia....
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Young Man Seeking Company
A lonely young man falls in love with a girl he has observed from a distance. One day he stops her o...
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Females At Play
A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette wh...
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Klarar Bananen Biffen?
Biffen and Bananen compete in a walking race between Stockholm and Gothenburg....
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Flottans glada gossar
When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, La...
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Crime in Paradise
While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot....
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Ljuset från Lund
A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and ...
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Wandering with the Moon
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he me...
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Emelie Högqvist
Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship wit...
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided ...
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The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white....
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Det är hos mig han har varit
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is ...
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The Director is Busy
About hobbies. The Swedish King Gustaf V enjoys embroideres. The CEO Arvid Öhlin plays with his toy ...
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Den tappre soldaten Jönsson
About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ...
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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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The Emperor of Portugallia
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he s...
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Sommar och syndare
Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holid...
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När ungdomen vaknar
Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found...
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Skrattbomben
Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laug...
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The Invisible Wall
In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the r...
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Just a Waiter
Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance ...
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Magistrarna på sommarlov
Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad gra...
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Hanna in High Society
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hann...
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Hotell Kåkbrinken
Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, ...
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Life and Death
Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a t...
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Flottans Muntergökar
Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves....
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Ung och kär
The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
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Tappa inte sugen
In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impres...
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Love Wins Out
The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teena...
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Kyssen på kryssen
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearte...
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To Help the Lady of the House
Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids...
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Fianceé for Hire
A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from ch...
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