Carl Billquist
Also Known As: Carl Folke Billquist, Carl Billqvist
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: May 19, 1933
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 24, 1993
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The Simple-Minded Murderer
Overview: The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry
Overview: Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old dynamiter Dynamite-Harry and he ruins the plan. Sickan is arrested, and has to spend 10 months in a small, locked room. When he is released, he has a new plan, but Rocky and Vanheden have decided to go straight. Together with Dynamite-Harry, Sickan plans to rob a cold store, managed by their arch-enemy, Wall-Enberg.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever
Overview: Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 million Swedish crowns in gold and diamonds to whoever can deliver the chip to the foreign investors. Who will grab hold of the chip, the Jönsson gang or Wall-Enberg?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Peter-No-Tail in Americat
Overview: Peter-No-Tail (Pelle Svanslös) is a cat who was born without a tail. He compensates this by studying hard and, much to the dismay of his arch-rival Magnus (Måns), he receives a fancy university degree very few cats in the university town Uppsala, Sweden have obtained. Peter is visited by his American relative Pelle Swanson who invites him to visit his new home country America - in the movie called Americat. There everything is bigger and everything seems possible.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1985-12-14
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Peter-No-Tail
Overview: Peter-No-Tail is a cat who's born without a proper tail on a farm by the Swedish countryside. Due to economical difficulties, the farmer is forced to get rid of Peter. The farmer can't bring himself to drown the cat, so he sneaks Peter inside the car of a family who are renting a house close to the farm for their summer vacation. When the family finally reach their home in Uppsala, Sweden, they find Peter and decide to keep him. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cats and, especially Mike, who teases him cruelly. Mean Mike and his two companions, Bill and Bull, are notorious for the nasty tricks they like to play on other cats. Mike is currently trying to court Molly Silk-Nose, but his rough and silly approach does not impress her, since she becomes interested in the kind and gentle Peter. But Mike won't give up that easily and he has a plan for how he'll get his revenge.
Genres: Romance Family Animation Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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The Butt
Overview: Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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All These Women
Overview: Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-06-15
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Miss and Mrs Sweden
Overview: To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-12-21
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Tribadernas natt
Overview: Depicts the explosive relationship between August Strindberg and Siri von Essen in 1889 while Siri is rehearsing a lead role in a play written by Strindberg.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-03-24
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Duo jag
Overview: Gösta Ekman and Kent Andersson play two men, living together for a long time. One a small, skinny and unknown poet - the other a large, famous and celebrated actor.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-09-09
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The Secret Friend
Overview: A woman humiliates and shouts at her husband, before she ties him up and disappears. He frees himself and calls a friend who comes over. He tries to tell the friend how his wife treats him but the friend does not seem to understand or accept what he is saying. The man then puts on his wife’s negligee and suggest a role-play in order for the friend to understand better. The man plays his wife while the friend plays the man. After a while they switch roles. Later the wife returns with a male friend, a psychologist, to find her husband and his friend in female attire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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Pig Hunt
Overview: "Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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Körsbärsträdgården
Overview: Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-08-23
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Around the World in 80 Days
Overview: The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-12-31
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Min pappa är Tarzan
Overview: Moa is seven years old and lives with her mother and her hamster. When her mother gets a new boyfriend Moa starts fantasising about her father's life in Africa.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Nationalmonumentet
Overview: The sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets rejected but it's the starting point for a lot of political and light-hearted complications.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Raskenstam
Overview: The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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Jim and the Pirates Blom
Overview: Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town. His father has passed away recently, but comes back in Jim's fantasies to tell stories. In his daydreams, Jim has all kinds of adventures.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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Håll alla dörrar öppna
Overview: Steve works as a locksmith and one day he meets Lotta in his work. After helping her get back into her apartment they decide to see each other again. Though they are dating Steve still goes out with other girls, and in situations like this a big city quickly becomes a small town.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-11-05
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91:an och generalernas fnatt
Overview: When private 91 "Mandel" Karlsson is appointed General due to a computer error, he tricks a foreign military attaché into believing that the Swedish defense has a new weapon that turns male soldiers into women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Swedish Portraits
Overview: The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-09-07
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The Day the Clown Cried
Overview: An unfinished and unreleased Swedish-French comedy-drama about a Circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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Honeymoon
Overview: Carl meets Inger through a personal ad. They fall in love, move together, but realize that they are very different. Nevertheless, they decide to marry. On their way home from the wedding, they fall through a hole in the street and into the sewer system, where they are forced to spend their honeymoon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-05-22
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Fyra dagar som skakade Sverige - Midsommarkrisen 1941
Overview: At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded permission from the Swedish government to transport 18,000 German soldiers from Norway to Finland across Sweden by railway. This was a difficult problem for the Swedish government. On one hand remaining friendly with Germany at the height of its power, on the other maintaining a strict neutrality. The Swedish cabinet meet in Stockholm to decide upon the best reply to the German demands.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-01-03
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Dockpojken
Overview: A psychological drama where the son escapes his father's brutality in the isolated far north of Sweden. The father is left with the pain and agony of having chased away his only child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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Trasiga änglar
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-23
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A Dream Play
Overview: "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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-05-02
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Barna från Blåsjöfjället
Overview: A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent plan. They set out on a epic journey down thru Sweden, from Lappland down to Stockholm in search of their father. They encounter many people on their journey and make new friends while trying too elude the police.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Green Men from Outer Space
Overview: A UFO has crashed close to a summer holiday park and a couple of kids are set to help them with the aid of a man with magic powers. But they have to hurry before an anti UFO force finds the green men from outer space.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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Höjdhoppar'n
Overview: 35-year old Erik Engman, aka Pinnen, is the local fool. He picks up garbage and eats at the old people's home. One day he is asked to try the high-jump at the sport's field. He becomes fascinated and starts to train every day. Being fool-hardy, it doesn't take long before he is one of the best in the country and is asked to compete at the Stockholm Stadion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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Come on Roland!
Overview: In this absurdist comedy Roland Jung is a young man who wants to write, but when he is in desperate need of money, he has to take a job at an advertising agency in Stockholm. He lands on the department for cosmetics and especially deodorant preparations. He is asked by the agency to do market research among the youth to determine their reaction to a new drug against pimples.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-09-18
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Skånska mord - Hurvamorden
Overview: After 24 hours of searching, the body of ex policeman Tore Hedin is found in Brösarps-lake in Skåne. The year was 1952.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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Fanny and Alexander
Overview: As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Kalle Utter
Overview: Kalle Utter is more interested in student life's happy sides and less for examinations and exams. One summer he takes a work as an informer at a castle. A time the noble family will never forget.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-12-25
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Idag Röd
Overview: Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-10-12
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Lyckodrömmen
Overview: The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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Jackpot
Overview: A TV movie about Kurre, a moving company and dirty money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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En sån strålande dag
Overview: A comedy about the young notary Thore, who mistakenly opens a private letter to his boss, lawyer Larsson. The letter says that a certain Eva Larsson will inherit a piece of land in Guatemala, containing large oil deposits. A baby photo of Eva has been included for identification, and when Thore is fired for his mistake he happens to bring the photo with him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-08-28
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Mr. Ernest
Overview: Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Lek ej med kärleken
Overview: The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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Skånska mord - Veberödsmannen
Overview: Martin Svensson was an evil and brutal man that drifted around in Skåne with his family in the beginning of the 20th century.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-02-26
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