Gösta Cederlund
Acting
Biography
Gustaf Edvard Cederlund was an actor and director in theatre as well as film. One of Sweden's most popular and appreciated male character actors from 1917 and on. He didn't have any desire to direct film himself. But WW2 changed all that. Gösta Cederlund directed a handfull of important films with striking social character and consciousness. "Kungsgatan" (1943) and "En dotter född/ A daughter born" (1944) are two examples of his brilliance and ability to put female issues in focus. Gösta Cederlund appeared in some 130 feature films and tv-productions from 1917 to 1976. While he at the same time was vary active in the world of theatre.
Born: March 6, 1888
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Known For
The Lord from the Lane
The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbåge. But he can only get the money on one condition: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja.
Torment
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
Girl with Hyacinths
A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
A Fortune Hunter
Historical drama which features Gösta Ekman as the dashing rogue who steals the heart of the ethereal Mary Johnson.
The Pleasure Garden
A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?
Markurells i Wadköping
Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.
It Rains on Our Love
A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Her Little Majesty
Spoiled upper class girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sports car into the house of the local vicar. She will have to stay for a few days while her car is repaired. Opposites attract but what will the locals think of this odd couple who slowly realize that they are fond of each other?
A Dangerous Proposal
The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child support because he isn't the child's father, her father insists that Helga take him to court. On court day, just as the older married man is about to swear on the Bible that he is not the father of Helga's child, Helga suddenly tells the court that she's dropping the case because although the man did father her child, she doesn't want him to commit perjury, which is not only a serious crime but a mortal sin as well. Based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Caretaker
as Count John af Silfverbåge
as Liljedahl
as Curt Eklund
as Lindgren
as Theater Agent
as Alfred Björk
as Jan-Gustav Stjernudd
as Religion teacher
as Colonel
as Sebastian
as Herman Rooth
as Harald Friberg
as fader Petrus
as Chief of police
as Höglund
as Prof. Lind
as Captain
as Karl-Gustaf Ringschiöld
as direktör Haglund
as Doctor
as Adolph Mosch
as G. D. von Lieven
as Hjalmar Haller
as Oskar Karlsson
as Count John af Silvferbåge
as Colonel
as engelsk general
as N.G. Hellsten
as Johan Fredrik Morén
as Karl-Otto Rosander
as Man with Umbrella
as Hall
as Holmstedt
as Julius Borell
as Georg Werner
as Redaktör Markel
as Göran Bergsten
as direktör Stig Lind
as Local police
as Pippi
as Major Wendecrona
as The Priest
as Doctor
as Birger Karlmark
as Björn Kronfors
as Markel
as Mr. Brenner
as Dr. Borell
as Harald Fors, Lawyer
as Carlos Haller
as Vicar Klewe
as Green, Lawyer
as Prof. Wall
as uppläsaren i radio
as Parnell
as Nyberg
as Inspector Lilja
as Direktör Björkman, Marys far
as Colonel
as Sergei, baker
as Hektor Blomqvist
as Mr. Carlton
as Curry Treffenberg
as Axel Blomberg
as Gösta Bergfelt
as Sune Hagstam
as "Greven" Severin
as Malte Brundin senior
as Col. Nikolaus Malling
as Man at The Royal Yacht Club
as Dr Palm
as Chefen för Kungliga Statsteatern
as Banker
as CEO Haad
as Steen
as Charlie Svenson, Willie's Father
as Direktør Birger Hylén, musikkforlegger, Monias far
as John Nordenson
as Guest
as Niels Kagg
as Lars Sidenius
as Eyvind Husaby
as Knud Nordhaug
as Per Månsson