Åke Claesson
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 2, 1889
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Known For
Iris and the Lieutenant
Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.
Seger i mörker
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Do You Believe in Angels?
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Miss Julie
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
Eva
Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.
Music in Darkness
A blind upper-class pianist falls in love with a young servant.
Familjen Björck
The Björcks are an ordinary middle-class family in a large Stockholm apartment with with two children, Greta and Ville. But the family's happiness is threatened in two ways: Greta prefers Börje Schack instead of the well-behaving Bertil. And the flirtatious Mrs. Holten tries to snare Mr. Björck.
Flames in the Dark
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
Appassionata
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
A Crime
A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?
Filmography
as Torsten Waller
as Malmrot, embassador
as Svante Sture
as Professor Wijkander
as Waterhead's Father
as Marcellus
as Doctor
as Foreign Affairs Advisor
as Erik Fredriksson
as Jörgen Bure
as Augustin Schröder
as Gus Pettersson
as Pontus Hallman
as Oscar Motander
as Carl von Linné
as Roslin
as Consultant Karling
as Chairman
as Judge
as Vicar Ahrman, Jenny's Father
as Prison Director Nils Holmqvist
as Police Chief (uncredited)
as Recording Clerk
as Carl Michael Bellman
as Lars-Erik Hermansson
as bokförläggaren
as Jeremiah
as Professor Torin (uncredited)
as Senior Lecturer
as Dr. Hjalmar Brander (uncredited)
as Priest
as Carl Michael Bellman
as Prosecutor
as Dr Lundvall
as Ship's captain
as Lindgren
as Borgström
as Librarian (uncredited)
as Dr. Forenius
as Karl (uncredited)
as Carl Michael Bellman
as Carl Michael Bellman