Erik Hell
Acting
Biography
Erik Hell was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He started out as a glass factory workers at Emmaboda, before he decided to become an actor, graduating from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1942. His film debut was in Alf Sjöberg's "Den blomstertid..." (1940). Erik Hell appeared in almost 100 feature films and television productions.
Born: August 11, 1911
Known For
The Passion of Anna
A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.
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.
Den bergtagna
Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.
The Balloon
Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
Lev farligt
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
The Rite
Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
Port of Call
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.
I, a Woman
Liv is a frankly sexual being. She finds herself in a series of sexual relationships with men who, she says, fall too much in love with her and become opressive. Finally she meets a man who is very much like her, but that brings its own problems.
A Ship to India
Seven years after leaving home, a sailor returns and remembers both the dark and the light moments of his past.
Barabbas
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Filmography
as Horn
as Georg
as Wilhelm Braun
as Col. Braun
as Johan Andersson
as Judge Dr. Abrahamson
as Gunnar Wahlström
as Väg-Larsen
as Oskar Kron
as The father
as Tryggve Holm
as Parpalaid
as Kamrer Möller
as The Hangman
as Siv's Father
as Måns Nilsson
as Ragnar Synnéus
as Helge
as Döden
as Yngve Lindgren
as Policeman
as The Hunter
as Egon Ström
as Kurt Forsberg
as Erik Axel Bom
as Pullinen
as Customs Inspector
as Vicar
as Bouncer
as Blind musician
as Johan
as First Mate
as Slaver driver
as Torsten, farm worker
as Stivhatten
as Erik Andersson
as Aron Loväng
as Berit's Father
as Edvin
as Pekka
as The Lover
as Nisse (uncredited)
as Walter Corell
as Parachute Saboteur
as Löjtnant Gerhard Grijp, senare ryttmästare
as Möllersten
as Jodl (uncredited)
as Jon Persson
as Hans of Lenhovda
as First Mate
as Swedish soldier
as gruvarbetare