Olav Riégo
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 21, 1891
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Known For
Sawdust and Tinsel
A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
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.
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.
If I Could Marry the Minister
Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
The Norrtull Gang
A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.
One Summer of Happiness
The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.
While the City Sleeps
Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
65, 66, and Me
Wholesaler Pettersson ends up in the military after being mixed up with a soldier on the run, who has stolen his identity.
Puck heter jag
Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.
A Guest Is Coming
It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
Filmography
as Wedin
as Utställningstalare
as Margit's father
as Bisterkvist
as Conductor
as head doctor
as Customer
as Headmaster
as Quarry manager
as Librarian
as Mr Dücker
as School principal
as Sven Lagerberg, general
as Marshal of the Court
as Teacher
as Doctor
as Customs director
as Art dealer
as Johansson
as Prof. Benatsky
as Professor of Anatomy
as Manager of penal labour institution
as Dr. Häger
as Emil
as Chamberlain
as Mr. Widgren
as Justice of Appeal
as Liv's father
as Arnold (uncredited)
as major Emmerich
as Dr. Beerg (uncredited)
as Inspector
as General Ernst Gotthard von Vegesack
as Johansson
as Secretary
as Kristiana's Lawyer
as Doctor
as Doktor Fagrell
as Wessman, kansliråd
as Sandegren (uncredited)
as Johan
as Mr. Blomberg
as Theodor Rosén
as Banck's assistant
as Police inspector
as Privatsekretæren
as fotgängare
as Gentleman at the Royal Court (uncredited)
as Herr Pettersson, direktør Hyléns medhjelper
as Guest at Tora's Party (uncredited)
as Johansson
as Rulle Berg
as Bov
as Actor in the play "Pistols for Two"
as Charles Wykeham
as Görel's fiancé