Willy Peters
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Willy Peters.
Born: January 31, 1915
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Known For
Erik XIV
Counter to the popular image of Erik XIV as the mad king Strindberg paints him as an intelligent but weak king, brought down by his insecurities.
Amala, Kamala
About two girl-wolf, Amala and Kamala in 1930s India. They are captured by the British troops and placed in Military hospital, subjected to a harsh upbringing, in an attempt to make ordinary people out of them.
Söndagspromenaden
A tale about the Coriander family at the turn of the century.
Shame
In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
A Dream Play
"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.
Karl för sin hatt
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
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.
Each to His Own Way
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
The Gulls
Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature study, the film was widely read as an allegory of Nazism—a symbolic parable of predation and violence during wartime. Sucksdorff himself denied such intent, but remarked that “a film that is not open to interpretation is a dead film.”
Simon the Sinner
After a fist fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved he discovers that he can heal the sick and disabled. The knowledge of Simon's gifts spread quickly and the sect's leaders exploit the situation.
Filmography
as Svante Sture
as Board member
as Guvernören
as Tran
as Gustaf, Police Officer
as Gråkappans redaktör
as Dynamit-Bengtsson
as Senior Officer
as The Director
as Kommissarie Rowland
as Kjell
as Narrator (voice)
as Klöverhage
as Klöverhage
as John Weijner
as Klöverhage
as Boman
as Cetrén
as Fritiof Flodén
as Henry Berger
as Patient (uncredited)
as Oscar Lindberg
as Prosecutor
as Gambler
as Fillebom
as Narrator (voice)
as Fritz
as officer
as Actor (uncredited)
as Policeman
as Alphonse
as Bengt Svensson
as Borg
as Roger
as Guest at Party
as Bengt
as 45 Viktor Bengtsson
as Per Albin Hansson
as Carl-Bertil Blomberg