Alexander von Baumgarten
Acting
Biography
Alexander von Baumgarten was a Swedish stage and screen character actor.
Born: August 12, 1884
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Known For
Money: A Tragicomic Saga
Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar. Orvar does not know that he has inherited a large fortune but the seven brothers do and they begin to treat him with the greatest courtesy. They convince him to write his last will, making them his heirs, and then begin to make plans on how to kill him.
The Balloon
Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
Strange Harbor
A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.
Barabbas
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Females At Play
A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
Tull-Bom
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
This Can't Happen Here
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.
Far till sol och vår
Martin Wide inherits a bus from his dying grandfather. He restores it from being a hen house into a tourist bus. He puts an ad in the newspaper about "travels to the sun" and also advertises for a stewardess at the same time. The female reporter Vera Boman signs up for the job, in order to expose the "tourist travel hoax". The two, together with passengers of various kinds set off from a snowy Sweden towards Paris. During the trip, Vera starts to realize that Martin is not a "tourist cheater" but a kind and thoughtful travel arranger, who tries to tend to all his passengers as best as he can, even when the situations become difficult to handle. In addition, a famous Swedish diamond has just been stolen and it turns out that both the thieves and the private detectives who are after them, are passengers on the bus.
Flottans glada gossar
When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife.
Spöke på semester
"Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona (Järrell) owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost (Järrell) and the two trade places
Filmography
as Owner of Los Caracoles
as Kreuger's valet
as Restaurant Owner in Paris (uncredited)
as Night Club owner
as French Police Lieutenant
as Nicke
as Pianist
as Supervisor at Copper Mine on Cyprus
as A gentleman
as Jacques - French smuggler
as The Captain of the Mrofnimok Gadyn
as Pant-Johan
as Bar Manager in Ultra Mar
as Ulven Pettersson
as Dirty Dick
as Bartender
as Russian Weapons Buyer (uncredited)
as Helge Långsint
as Host at the Imperial
as Natasja's father