John Ekman

Born: 1880-11-16

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Ekman (15 November 1880 – 22 November 1949) was a Swedish silent film actor. He appeared in 81 films between 1912 and 1949. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Ekman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Phantom Carriage

as Police Constable
Released: 1921-01-01

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms...

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A Man There Was

as Prisoner
Released: 1917-01-29

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man....

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To Joy

as Mikael Bro
Released: 1950-02-20

After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their...

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The Outlaw and His Wife

as Arnes the Immigrant Worker
Released: 1918-01-01

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he...

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The Ingmar Inheritance

as Elias
Released: 1925-12-26

"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and...

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Song of the Scarlet Flower

as Log Driving Chief
Released: 1919-04-14

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his...

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Man's Way with Women

as Koskela
Released: 1934-11-12

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a...

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Kungen kommer

as Blom
Released: 1936-03-23

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the...

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Lasse-Maja

as Niklas Halling
Released: 1941-11-28

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and...

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Marknadsafton

as Otto
Released: 1948-07-31

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.

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The Serious Game

as Anders Stille, hennes far
Released: 1945-11-26

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the...

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His Grace's Will

as Abraham Björner
Released: 1940-12-26

His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus,...

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Vart hjärta har sin saga

as uncredited
Released: 1948-09-13

Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.

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Sigge Nilsson och jag

as Vedlund
Released: 1938-09-09

Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.

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Försök inte med mej...

as Brandt, art dealer
Released: 1946-02-02

Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find...

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The Norrtull Gang

as Baby's Boss
Released: 1923-12-23

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the...

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Love Wins Out

as uncredited
Released: 1949-12-26

The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely...

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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo

as Brännar-Ante
Released: 1949-10-29

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has...

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The Gardener

as The General
Released: 1912-10-16

A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and...

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Hjärtan som mötas

as uncredited
Released: 1914-11-30

Hearts That Meet (Swedish: Hjärtan som mötas) is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by...

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A Lover in Pawn

as Hoodlum
Released: 1920-10-11

About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman

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The Secret of Hotel Paradise

as uncredited
Released: 1931-10-20

The innkeeper Schultze and his wife are broke and don't know how to pay their rent when a...

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Snapphanar

as Mogens
Released: 1941-12-26

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the...

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The Avenger

as Jacob Kahn, Ester's cousin
Released: 1915-09-05

Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with...

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General von Döbeln

as General Adlercreutz
Released: 1942-10-26

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von...

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Judge Not

as uncredited
Released: 1914-08-31

Helder is a happy family man, but one day his wife receives a letter from her brother Albert,...

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Brother Against Brother

as Alexei Potowski
Released: 1913-11-21

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them...

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Folket på Högbogården

as uncredited
Released: 1939-10-09

Mean farmer Ola Berg reigns at Högbogården and endures a loveless relationship with his wife Karin.

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Rosen på tistelön

as Håkan Haraldsson
Released: 1945-08-05

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

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In Self Defence

as uncredited
Released: 1921-11-07

A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First...

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Kärlek starkare än hat eller Skogsdotterns hemlighet

as uncredited
Released: 1914-01-01

A beautiful woman is torn between her loyalty to her unscrupulous brother and feelings for her...

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Baldevins bröllop

as uncredited
Released: 1938-09-24

A comedy in which the noted and rotund Swedish comedian, Edvard Persson, plays the title role...

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Children of the Streets

as uncredited
Released: 1914-10-19

Karl Sterner falls for Jenny, a beautiful young woman from an impoverished background, and soon...

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Count Only the Happy Moments

as Benson
Released: 1944-08-08

The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian...

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Sin

as Director
Released: 1928-09-16

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the...

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The Sea Vultures

as Birger
Released: 1916-01-31

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues...

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Svarte Rudolf

as uncredited
Released: 1928-10-22

Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.

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33.333

as uncredited
Released: 1936-03-02

A young worker has decided he must get to buy a lottery ticket with the number 33.333. He manage...

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The Miracle

as uncredited
Released: 1913-12-01

Based on the novel Lourdes by Émile Zola.

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Strejken

as uncredited
Released: 1915-01-04

An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.

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Atlantäventyret

as Baron Winkelstein
Released: 1934-02-05

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his...

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De lefvande dödas klubb

as uncredited
Released: 1914-01-30

The suicidal gambler Tom Haget receives an invitation to the D.L.D.C. (The Living Dead Club),...

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The Black Masks

as uncredited
Released: 1912-10-21

"The Black Masks", a secret political society, involves the beautiful agent Lydia to apprehend...

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The Voice of Passion

as uncredited
Released: 1913-09-22

A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless...

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Gentlemannagangstern

as Bergman Sr.
Released: 1941-02-01

Patrik Bergman returns to Stockholm after a couple of years. He had to leave the capital when he...

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The Young Nobleman

as uncredited
Released: 1924-11-11

A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.

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Madame de Thèbes

as Ayla's father
Released: 1915-08-06

The story is wacky – a gypsy is cursed by her father, so that she has to deny her illegitimate...

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Let No Man Put Asunder

as uncredited
Released: 1921-07-18

During the 1200s, the catholic priest Peder has to divorce his wife when the church votes for...

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The Governor's Daughters

as uncredited
Released: 1915-08-25

An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman,...

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Det var i maj

as uncredited
Released: 1915-05-17

Two men are rivals for the affection of the beautiful Eufrosyne Linde - who is actually toying...

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Fredlös

as Boris Borodoff
Released: 1935-10-11

The Finnish War 1808-1809 is over and Russia has conquered Finland from Sweden. All weapons in...

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The Unknown Woman

as uncredited
Released: 1913-01-02

Mauritz Stiller directed adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.

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Stiller-fragment

as (archive footage)
Released: 1969-01-01

Available episodes of missing movies by Mauritz Stiller.

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Synnöve Solbakken

as Guttorm Solbakken
Released: 1934-10-21

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.

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Flickorna på Solvik

as uncredited
Released: 1926-10-25

In the Skåne manor house Cronoholm, the rich Baron Rutger Cronsköld live with his two children...

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A Secret Marriage

as Hennes fästman
Released: 1912-10-14

A film about family secrets...and deathbed confessions.

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Familjens traditioner

as Sixten Borgman
Released: 1920-12-06

"Family Traditions" - The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.

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Kalle Utter

as uncredited
Released: 1925-02-02

Kalle Utter is theologian student at Uppsala University sometime during the latter half of the...

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Säterjäntan

as uncredited
Released: 1912-01-01

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The Price of Betrayal

as uncredited
Released: 1915-12-13

An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.

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The Last Performance

as Circus Manager
Released: 1912-08-11

A young lieutenant falls in love with a circus rider. He leave the military and take a job at...

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Bombi Bitt and Me

as Wolff
Released: 1936-11-16

A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.

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Guilt Redeemed

as uncredited
Released: 1915-02-15

The widower Stensson lives a happy life on his farm with his two children.

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Högfjällets dotter

as uncredited
Released: 1914-11-16

A young doctor is found unconscious in the mountains and is brought to a Sami village.

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Johan Ulfstjerna

as Governor
Released: 1923-12-02

The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the...

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Mästertjuven

as uncredited
Released: 1915-09-27

Engineer Gordon has made a new invention for the military and a master thief get the mission to...

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Paradisfågeln

as uncredited
Released: 1917-09-24

Ayo Vindico is known in the capital Stockholm as the Bird of paradise.

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Hans hustrus förflutna

as uncredited
Released: 1915-08-30

The international criminal Helene Voigt, who calls herself Countess Montigno, is on the run from...

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Svarta rosor

as uncredited
Released: 1945-08-27

A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love...

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Lyckonålen

as uncredited
Released: 1916-01-31

A sea captain travels to the foreign port of San Lucas and collects a large sum of money, where...

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Stormfågeln

as uncredited
Released: 1914-09-22

Olga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.

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Jungeldrottningens smycke

as uncredited
Released: 1917-03-26

Despite her youth, Princess Lara Rispala has managed to get her kingdom Leskapur to move towards...

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Friaren från landsvägen

as uncredited
Released: 1923-10-01

Gösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter.

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