Ernst Eklund
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 6, 1882
Place of Birth: Östervåla, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Known For
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.
Seger i mörker
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Crisis
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.
Under False Flag
The bank employee Bertil falls in love with Margot. He does not know she is the bank director's daughter.
We Home Toilers
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.
Madame de Thèbes
The story is wacky – a gypsy is cursed by her father, so that she has to deny her illegitimate son in order for him to have a successful life. She gives him to a well-to-do lady who has lost her own child. Later, he has grown up to be a politician who wants to become the foreign minister. He doesn’t know that his real mother is the famous Madame de Thebes, the fortuneteller who all politicians make sure to visit! This information falls into the hands of a rival, who tries to use it to ruin his career. Meanwhile, the rival’s attractive daughter is attacked by a ruffian and needs to be rescued… There are a lot of striking images in this film. You can see the beauty of them even if the state of the print is far from perfect. The Norwegian actress Ragna Wettergreen gives a haunting performance as Madame de Thebes, with wisdom and regret – and quite a few melodramatic gestures. Understatement was not the norm in those days.
The Banquet
As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with a young man. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from the old village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.
Marie in the Windmill
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.
Gröna hissen
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Doctor
as Bank Manager
as Journalist
as Jacob Cotten
as Edvard
as Burenberg, wholesale dealer
as Major Lundgren
as Direktör Bang
as Professor Fors
as Thomas Berg
as Björn Lindemark
as Georg Welander
as Teodor Larsson
as Vladimir Katena, Lawyer
as överste Justus Tamm
as Col. Lindberg
as Helge Dahlberg
as farbror Ludvig, advokat
as Lennart Klintberg
as Direktør Georg Delmar
as Gunnar Green
as Allan Dehner
as Septimus R. Podgers
as Augustus Ferrer
as Ture Bengtsson, ingenjör
as Robert's friend