Åke Claesson
Know for: Acting
Born: 1889-07-02
Place of birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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Hon trodde det var han (1943)
The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark...
Take Care of Ulla (1942)
Ulla and Gunnar meet and fall in love in Stockholm in the late 1930s. Early in their relationship Ulla discovers that she is pregnant but she decides...
Eva (1948)
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...
Music in Darkness (1948)
Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside...
Gabrielle (1954)
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her,...
Do You Believe in Angels? (1961)
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...
Familjen Björck (1940)
The Björcks are an ordinary middle-class family in a large Stockholm apartment with with two children, Greta and Ville. But the family's...
Flames in the Dark (1942)
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a...
Life Goes On (1941)
The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from...
Karin Månsdotter (1954)
Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled...
General von Döbeln (1942)
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against...
Our Gang (1942)
A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
Aktören (1943)
The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.
Marie in the Windmill (1945)
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of...
The Nuthouse (1951)
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The...
En sjöman i frack (1942)
First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
The Ghost Reporter (1941)
Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
Försummad av sin fru (1947)
Pelle (Karl-Arne Holmsten) and Siska (Irma Christenson) Hedberg are both journalists on the same newspaper. Pelle is an editor and Siska writes a...
The Turnstile (1944)
The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the...
A Crime (1940)
"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...
You Who Are About to Enter (1945)
Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of...
Children of the Night (1956)
A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position."...
Flickor i hamn (1945)
Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
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.
The Road to Klockrike (1953)
Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one...
My Passionate Longing (1956)
The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.
Young Summer (1954)
Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.
Man glömmer ingenting (1942)
When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold is immediately attracted to the 19-year old girl,...
Resan bort (1945)
Bernt comes to a small town to rob the bank. But behind the counter stands his old friends Hjalmar, and he has to pretend it was all a joke. Hjalmar...
Kungajakt (1944)
The film takes place in the 1780s. The Russians plan to overthrow Gustav III from the Swedish throne and Lieutenant Rehusen tries to stop them, while...
Begär (1946)
Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers...
En äventyrare (1942)
A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.
Nattvaktens hustru (1947)
Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
Svarta rosor (1945)
A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the...
Finnskogens folk (1955)
The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside....
Trötte Teodor (1945)
Teodor is happy and newly married to Marianne; unfortunately, his domineering mother-in-law shares the young couple's home.
Onda ögon (1947)
Per Jonas wife Hedvig is ill and Barbro has been employed to care for her. Per Jonas falls in love with Barbro and in order to live with her, he...
Jagad (1945)
A smalltime businessman gets himself into finance problems. His bank requires tangible proof of ability to pay. The businessman makes a drastic...
Paradiset (1955)
The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For...
Miss Julie (1951)
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy...
The Serious Game (1945)
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come...
Two Kings (1925)
The young adventurer Signature Hjelm meets one day a runaway carriage, and succeeds by a resourceful and daring intervention to avert an accident....
Dunungen (1941)
The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.
Sol över Klara (1942)
The film is about a group of artists in the Klara Quarter. Ararat, a poor painter in Stockholm, one day meet his ex-fiance Elisabeth who is now a...
The Heavenly Play (1942)
"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit...
Young Blood (1943)
Eva is a very talented and able college girl. In the summer she is going to work at a farm. There she meets a different world of unwanted children,...
Maria (1947)
Maria has been fired from her job as a householder with a family in a small town in Sweden. She leaves in anger for Stockholm, aiming for a career as...
Ödemarksprästen (1946)
In the early 18th century the priest Martin Ryselius has become widower and stands alone with a one-year-old daughter. He is seeking the meaning of...
Helen of Troy (1951)
Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the...
Hans majestäts rival (1943)
"His Majesty's Rival" - A young man, Lars Hjelm, returns home after being in Italy on a scholarship from the Swedish king, Gustaf III. On his way...
Hotell Kåkbrinken (1946)
Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house...
Herre med portfölj (1943)
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that...
Solkatten (1948)
The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who...
Ulla, My Ulla (1930)
In the cellar Tuppen in Stockholms Old Town the troubadour Bellman sits with his drinking buddies Fredman, Mollberg, Mowitz and Father Berg.
Ung och kär (1950)
The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta...
Ungdom i bojor (1942)
A waitress finds out that her fourteen year old brother is a member of a youth gang doing burglaries in kiosks. Valdemar Jansson escapes prison and...
Jag är eld och luft (1944)
Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered...
Fallet Ingegerd Bremssen (1942)
"The Ingegerd Bremssen Case" - The young nurse Ingegerd Bremssen walks on a lonely road in the woods and gets attacked by a man. He rapes her and...
Seger i mörker (1954)
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Appassionata (1944)
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.