Stig Järrel
Acting
Biography
Stig Järrel (8 February 1910 – 1 July 1998) was a Swedish actor, film director and revue artist. Järrel was one of the most popular actors in Sweden during his career, and also one of the most productive, participating in a total of 131 films. He also performed as an actor at various Swedish theatres and was a frequent guest on radio and television.
Born: February 8, 1910
Place of Birth: Malmberget, Norrbottens län, Sweden
Known For
Hanna in High Society
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.
Three Wishes
Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he as a piano student, she a singing student. They become a couple and married but soon there are the frictions. Mona gets hundred crowns from her father, because he thinks she has become so charmless. For it, she buys a perfume called Three Wishes.
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.
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.
The Devil's Eye
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
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?
Karl för sin hatt
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Strange Harbor
A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.
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 Red Room
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Self
as Gunnar Emanuelsson
as Gorm
as Pechlin
as Bokförläggare Smith
as Lindqvist
as Carl Stjernesten
as Ludvig Lundberg
as Sebastian Petrén, managing director
as Satan
as Narrator
as Nils Fähger
as Sture Turesson
as Urbáhn
as Fencer
as Kreuger - Drug Lord
as Enslingen Johannes
as Director Sandell
as Karl Anton
as Sword-swallower Alfredo
as Ludde
as Ulf Christer Lefverhielm
as Gustav Pettersson
as Sture Tureson
as Bernhard Borg
as Strömbäck, usurer
as Captain Rickard
as Reverend Rickman
as Olof Gustavsson Stenbock
as The fur trader
as Gustav Andersson, kallad Skattefria Andersson
as Handlarns Per
as Captain Jacob Grönkvist
as Ali Baba
as Bruno Vikström
as Chief Constable
as Axne, vagabonde
as Billy Forsberg
as Porter / Police / Newspaper editor / Landlady / Customs officer / Gipsy / Gentleman
as Adolf Lundkvist, handelsresande i damunderkläder
as Hector
as Mr. Alkeryd a.k.a. The Spider
as Birger Sjögren
as Borgkrona
as Stig Järrel
as Algot
as Teacher Axel Brunell
as Major Pålman
as Major Eggert
as Art collector
as Director Wiland
as Albin Rosén
as Sten Rampe / Dioneo / Selabeatto / Stig Järrel
as Carmencita's father
as Sven Andreasson
as Brust
as The man in the fur coat
as Sture Lagerström
as Narrator / Man in Bathrobe
as Nils Brenner
as Valle, author
as Krister Ekberg
as Movie director Harry Sörbom
as Sigvard Lejoncrona
as The Unknown Gentleman
as Harald
as Björn "Mankan" Mander
as Frank Bing
as Martin Dahlberg
as Strand
as Julle Spant
as Sture / Märta
as The Vagabonde
as Himself
as lawyer Barman
as Stridström
as Gunnar Skönman
as "Guffar", travelling salesman
as Caligula
as Enander
as Pharmacist Edvind Franzen, Jenny's first husband
as Victor Reis
as Otto, Ludvig's uncle
as Otto Frank
as Major Monk
as Riddercrantz
as Manager Bexell
as Paul Winter
as Dr. Holm
as Gustav Söderberg
as Georg Hedberg
as Birger Sjögren
as Professor Petréus
as Nils "Nisse" Holm
as Jimmy Cronklinga
as Lieutenant Sperling
as Baltzar Hassler, bankir
as Kristensson (uncredited)
as Dr. Albert Lundberg
as Felix Tallgren
as Journalist
as Baltsar Ekberg
as Jimmy
as Baltzar Ekberg
as Rolf Gånge
as Maestro O. Toni, fiolinist og komponist
as Anton
as Grane