John Elfström
Popularity:0.096
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1902-04-20
Place of Birth:Ovansjö, Gävleborgs län, Sweden
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Also Known As:Per Johan Hilding Elfström

Tre skojiga skojare (1942)
The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.

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...

Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner (1966)
A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.

Livat på luckan (1951)
Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

Lockfågeln (1971)
On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to...

Hur tokigt som helst (1949)
"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a...

Svarte Rudolf (1928)
Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.

Peggy på vift (1946)
Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties...

The Yellow Squadron (1954)
The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold...

Minns ni? (1993)
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen (1950)
Nils Nilsson from Åsen, better known as Åsa-Nisse and his friend Klabbarparn goes Moose hunting. As a result of a sabotage, staged by...

Åsa-Nisse (1949)
At a parish meeting Åsa-Nisse suggests that they should hire a common home help, who could give their wives some relief by staying one week at...

Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr (1952)
Åsa-Nisse advertise for Summer guests and from Stockholm arrives Mrs. Niklasson and her atlethic daughter Elsa who is currently training for...

A Lesson in Love (1954)
After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved...

The Emperor of Portugallia (1944)
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives...

Ordet (1943)
Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.

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...

Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften (1956)
Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around...

Vi på Väddö (1958)
Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.

I mörkaste Småland (1943)
Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers...

Flickorna i Småland (1945)
Gunnar Carlman has returned to Sweden after a few years as a cowboy in Canada. He starts to work at a farm owned by vivacious and strongwilled...

Åsa-Nisse som polis (1960)
Country bailiff believes that a man of the people shall exercise police work. Åsa-Nisse appointed to the local police for some time. "Nesses"...

Åsa-Nisse slår till (1965)
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie....

Åsa-Nisse på semester (1953)
Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn...

Gustav Vasa (1965)
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

Dacke (1961)
Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the...

Kajan går till sjöss (1943)
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young...

The Priest Who Knocked Out (1943)
The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie...

One Summer of Happiness (1951)
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...

Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner (1961)
Åsa-Nisse has found a new job as forest ranger at count Malcolms estate Segerstad.

Åsa-Nisse i agentform (1967)
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn teach Sjökvisten how to be a secret agent.

Åsa-Nisse i full fart (1957)
Åsa-Nisse gets a chance to win 10.000 SEK in the biggest game show on Swedish TV.

Åsa-Nisse i kronans kläder (1958)
Corporal Åsa-Nisse Nilsson is an officer who somehow manages to teach his soldiers both discipline and the art of war.

Åsa-Nisse i popform (1964)
Pop music comes to Knohult and Åsa-Nisse has a new invention that makes his hens lay their eggs to the beat of the music.

Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form (1966)
Inspired by the space-race, Åsa-Nisse and his friends build a top-secret moon rocket. They have big trouble hiding their secret from prying...

Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt (1955)
Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has...

Åsa-Nisse på hal is (1954)
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing.

Åsa-Nisse jubilerar (1959)
The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems...

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca (1962)
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the...

Åsa-Nisse och tjocka släkten (1963)
Åsa-Nisse's brother Julius returns home from USA, apparently very rich. Also, Åsa-Nisse och Klabbarparen takes care of a little child...

Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken (1968)
Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the local newspaper.

Saltstänk och krutgubbar (1946)
The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.

The Lustful Vicar (1970)
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who...

The Wind Is My Lover (1949)
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he...

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It (1945)
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a...

När syrenerna blomma (1952)
The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also...

Aktören (1943)
The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.

Komedi i Hägerskog (1968)
Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.

Rosen på tistelön (1945)
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

Kristin Commands (1946)
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as...

Livet i finnskogarna (1947)
In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are...

Under svällande segel (1952)
The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make it difficult to be accepted on board. When some...

Vagabond Blacksmiths (1949)
Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters,...

Skogen är vår arvedel (1944)
The farmer Per Jonsson doesn't think too well about the factory in the neighborhood, since he thinks that it destroys the fishing and makes the young...

A Dream Play (1963)
"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he...

Stjärnbilder (1995)
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film...

Bröderna Östermans huskors (1945)
The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and...

Son of the Sea (1949)
The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son...

Bröllopet på Solö (1946)
Kalle Österman lives on the small island Solö together with his wife, Agneta.

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...

When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives (1950)
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.

Prince Gustaf (1944)
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love...

Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas (1945)
Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.

Spökhotellet (1960)
A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.

Hälsingar (1933)
Jonas goes with a tremendous speed with his horse over a country road in Hälsingland. Because of this speed Birgit Ljusnar, who is along the...

Samvetsömma Adolf (1936)
Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern...

Östermans testamente (1954)
The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine...

Den Hårda Leken (1956)
Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He...

Defiance (1952)
A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his...

Storm (1960)
An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing...

Tartuffe (1966)
The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying...

Hamlet (1955)
Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his...

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....

Sjöcharmörer (1939)
A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain...

Vår ofödde son (1959)
If I give birth, I will certainly be punished and lose my reputation. If I don't, then I may be punished, too. And also lose my reputation.

The bravado of the Österman brothers (1955)
Director Svensson in Stockholm is going on vacation to Koön in the archipelago. The rented cottage is inhabited by the brothers August and Johan...

Lata Lena och blåögde Per (1947)
Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena...

While the City Sleeps (1950)
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...

Everybody at His Station (1940)
Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea....

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna (1959)
In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th...

Idel ädel adel (1945)
A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.

Uppdrag Åsa-Nisse (2010)
In "Mission Åsa-Nisse" filmmaker Anders Nordqvist explores the 60th anniversary film classic series Åsa-Nisse. Through old film clips,...

Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer (1945)
After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up...

Wandering with the Moon (1945)
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out...

Flickan i fönstret mitt emot (1942)
The bricklayer Loffe often sees sculptress Ingrid in a window a cross the building. They get to now each other and soon fall in love. Loffe works for...

Patrasket (1966)
A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.

Guest of Reality (1961)
A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences...

Bödeln (1965)
"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the...

Åke and His World (1959)
A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.

Fröken Rosita (1960)
Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.

Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1962)
A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf...

Sjösalavår (1949)
The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven...

Tattarblod (1954)
David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a...

Den osynliga muren (1944)
"The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

Fransson the Terrible (1941)
A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.

Swedenhielms (1961)
Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.

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...

Sarons ros och gubbarna i Knohult (1968)
Åsa Nisse compilation from other movies.

Hård klang (1952)
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing...

Doktor Knock (1966)
Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.

Midsommardröm i fattighuset (1959)
A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.

Perhaps a Gentleman (1950)
After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.

Railroad Workers (1947)
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea....

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...