Karl-Arne Holmsten
Karl-Arne Holmsten was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He made his film debut in Ragnar Arvedson's "Kustens glada kavaljerer" in 1938. Karl-Arne Holmsten portrayed the elegant detective John Hillman in five films by Arne Mattsson, based on Folke Mellvig's novels. He also played Maria Lang's detective Christer Wijk in two films.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.548 |
| Birthday | 1911-08-14 |
| Place of Birth | Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden |
| Also Known As |
1954
The Yellow Squadron
5.4/5
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 w...
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The Yellow Squadron
1956
Sju vackra flickor
0/0
Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one me...
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Sju vackra flickor
1959
Rider in Blue
5.9/6
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in th...
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Rider in Blue
1952
Waiting Women
6.5/56
Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other...
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Waiting Women
1954
Dance on Roses
5/1
Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Brom...
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Dance on Roses
1955
Darling of Mine
5/2
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly...
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Darling of Mine
1950
Girl with Hyacinths
7.3/19
Dagmar Brink, a young female pianist, dies by suicide in her Stockholm apartment. She leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbors, an author...
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Girl with Hyacinths
1958
Vi på Väddö
4/1
Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
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Vi på Väddö
1960
When Darkness Falls
5.4/8
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace...
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When Darkness Falls
1952
Klasskamrater
6/1
Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.
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Klasskamrater
1958
The Lady in Black
5.9/16
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young...
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The Lady in Black
1958
Mannequin in Red
6.5/22
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several p...
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Mannequin in Red
1962
Lady in White
5.7/9
A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.
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Lady in White
1963
The Yellow Car
5/2
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence agains...
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The Yellow Car
1940
A Sailor on Horseback
5/2
Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance by...
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A Sailor on Horseback
1940
Blyge Anton
4/1
Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.
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Blyge Anton
1943
Örlogsmän
5/1
The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik...
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Örlogsmän
1942
Rospiggar
5/1
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik....
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Rospiggar
1959
Swinging at the Castle
6/2
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
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Swinging at the Castle
1958
Fridolf sticker opp!
5.6/5
A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get...
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Fridolf sticker opp!
1951
Tull-Bom
4.7/3
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
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Tull-Bom
1965
Two Vikings
0/0
The viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers.
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Two Vikings
1961
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
5.3/3
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
1951
Puck heter jag
6/2
Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.
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Puck heter jag
1949
Farlig vår
4.8/4
A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as custome...
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Farlig vår
1947
A Guest Is Coming
6.3/7
It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
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A Guest Is Coming
1953
Resan till dej
5/1
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
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Resan till dej
1957
Mamma tar semester
0/0
Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and is shocked to see how her husband and children rega...
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Mamma tar semester
1947
Försummad av sin fru
0/0
Pelle (Karl-Arne Holmsten) and Siska (Irma Christenson) Hedberg are both journalists on the same newspaper. Pelle is an editor and Siska writes a rela...
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Försummad av sin fru
1944
Gröna hissen
5/3
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Li...
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Gröna hissen
1944
Like Everyone Else
5/1
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments...
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Like Everyone Else
1945
Blåjackor
5/1
"Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
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Blåjackor
1942
We Home Toilers
6/2
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapi...
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We Home Toilers
1952
One Fiancé at a Time
5.5/2
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
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One Fiancé at a Time
1947
Daddy Wanted
4.3/3
Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist...
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Daddy Wanted
1957
Klarar Bananen Biffen?
4/1
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Klarar Bananen Biffen?
1954
Young Man Seeking Company
1/1
A lonely young man falls in love with a girl he has observed from a distance. One day he stops her on the street and asks if she has lost a piece of j...
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Young Man Seeking Company
1959
Crime in Paradise
6/1
While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night wa...
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Crime in Paradise
1955
Ljuset från Lund
5.5/2
A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological r...
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Ljuset från Lund
1945
Wandering with the Moon
6.5/2
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 of...
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Wandering with the Moon
1939
Emelie Högqvist
0/0
Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.
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Emelie Högqvist
1949
Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
6/1
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the par...
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
1947
The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
2/1
The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.
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The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
1963
Det är hos mig han har varit
1/1
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that...
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Det är hos mig han har varit
1945
The Director is Busy
0/0
About hobbies. The Swedish King Gustaf V enjoys embroideres. The CEO Arvid Öhlin plays with his toy trains. The countess Ebba Bonde collects porcelain...
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The Director is Busy
1941
Fröken Kyrkråtta
0/0
Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi Lundgren, who obviously did everything to vamp him.
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Fröken Kyrkråtta
1956
Den tappre soldaten Jönsson
0/0
About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ends up in jail, for different reasons. Further ad...
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Den tappre soldaten Jönsson
1944
The Emperor of Portugallia
6.3/3
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 th...
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The Emperor of Portugallia
1960
Sommar och syndare
0/0
Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beau...
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Sommar och syndare
1952
Ubåt 39
0/0
About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.
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Ubåt 39
1943
När ungdomen vaknar
0/0
Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.
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När ungdomen vaknar
1954
Skrattbomben
0/0
Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people around...
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Skrattbomben
1944
Den osynliga muren
5.3/3
"The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
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Den osynliga muren
1959
Just a Waiter
7/1
Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Mati...
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Just a Waiter
1941
Magistrarna på sommarlov
5.5/2
Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor...
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Magistrarna på sommarlov
1940
Hanna in High Society
0/0
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to h...
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Hanna in High Society
1946
Hotell Kåkbrinken
0/0
Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new a...
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Hotell Kåkbrinken
1943
Life and Death
5.5/2
Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of tr...
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Life and Death
1955
Flottans Muntergökar
0/0
Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.
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Flottans Muntergökar
1950
Ung och kär
0/0
The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alic...
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Ung och kär
1947
Tappa inte sugen
0/0
In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Al...
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Tappa inte sugen
1949
Love Wins Out
5/1
The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.
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Love Wins Out
1950
Kyssen på kryssen
4/1
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cit...
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Kyssen på kryssen
1939
To Help the Lady of the House
5/6
Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John...
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To Help the Lady of the House
1950
Fianceé for Hire
6/2
A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
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Fianceé for Hire
1967
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
5/2
People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz Hop...
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Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
1956
My Passionate Longing
0/0
The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.
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My Passionate Longing
1964
Älskling på vift
0/0
What happens if a regular housewife picks up in a local beauty contest - and wins? How will it be when the husband forbids her to go to the finals in...
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Älskling på vift
1948
Var sin väg
6/1
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 marria...
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Var sin väg
1949
Kvinna i vitt
0/0
Doctor Karin Lange arrives at a hospital to begin work but faces opposition from the head of surgery who believes women are not suited to the medical...
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Kvinna i vitt
1939
Spöke till salu
0/0
The Creutzerhjelm's are in search of an authentic haunted castle. Therefore, the owner of the castle SkiöldBorg decides to play ghost himself to sell...
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Spöke till salu
1942
Kvinnan tar befälet
0/0
A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm.
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Kvinnan tar befälet
1938
Du gamla du fria !
0/0
A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The accepta...
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Du gamla du fria !
1952
Säg det med blommor
0/0
Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an illusion-free elderly lady, believes that this attent...
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Säg det med blommor
1944
Dolly tar chansen
0/0
Dolly Holm work as a waitress, but her big dream is to stand on stage and act.
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Dolly tar chansen
1947
Hu!
0/0
Documentary on workers with dangerous jobs.
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Hu!
1943
En flicka för mej
0/0
The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma.
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En flicka för mej
1938
Kustens glada kavaljerer
0/0
The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.
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Kustens glada kavaljerer
1941
Ung dam med tur
0/0
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.
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Ung dam med tur
1940
Frestelse
0/0
A young Norwegian woman lives in a remote fishing village Dreaming of life in the big city, she sends her photo to a beauty contest. She is appointed...
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Frestelse
1952
Klackarna i taket
0/0
A collection of funny scenes from Swedish comedies.
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Klackarna i taket
1954
Flottans glada gossar
5/1
When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine unti...
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Flottans glada gossar
1947
Apéritif de Stockholm
0/0
A rhapsody of music and images in Stockholm.
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