John Melin

John Melin

Nacimiento : 1895-05-18, Karlskoga, Örebro län, Sweden

Muerte : 1966-04-06

Perfil

John Melin

Películas

The Marriage Wrestler
Herr Portiern
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
A Dream Play
"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.
That's Life
Carl-Gustaf and Arne are employed to do a commercial photography for director Oskarsson, but they fall into a bathtub and get fired. Anita Linbloms breakthrough film.
When Darkness Falls
Cantor
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 and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
El ojo del diablo
Beauty doctor
La castidad de Britt-Marie, hija de un pastor protestante, le provoca a Satán una verruga en un párpado. Para deshacerse de ella, manda a la Tierra a don Juan para que seduzca a Britt-Marie.
Rider in Blue
Åberg
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 the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.
Åsa-Nisse jubilerar
Vicar
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 to fit the profile.
Swinging at the Castle
Major Klacke
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Miss Chic
Vicar
An agent on the brink of bankruptcy finds a reluctant singing talent on a TV quiz show.
Mannequin in Red
Westman
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 people had motives to kill her.
La carreta fantasma
Tres borrachos evocan una leyenda según la cual si un gran pecador es la última persona que muere al terminar el año, entonces tendrá que conducir durante un año entero la Carreta Fantasma que recoge las almas de los muertos.
The Lady in Black
Bus driver
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 woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
A Girl of Solbakken
Verger
From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is drawn to the sinister farmhand Aslak. After a fight with Thorbjörn's father, Aslak leaves the farm. Thorbjörn grows up and falls in love with the beautiful Synnöve.
The Staffan Stolle Story
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Suss gott
The jack of all trades Pekka is having financial trouble and is being hunted by a debt collector.
Seventh Heaven
Balloon salesman
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Sonrisas de una noche de verano
Butler (uncredited)
El abogado Fredrik Egerman (Gunnar Björnstrand) es un hombre maduro que vive una relación platónica con Anne (Ulla Jacobsson), su joven y virginal esposa. Henrik, hijo de un matrimonio anterior, persigue a Petra (Harriet Andersson), la doncella de la familia. Una actriz llamada Desiree (Eva Dahlbeck), antigua amante de Fredrik, está en la ciudad y él la visita, pero ahora ella tiene un nuevo amante, el Conde Malcom, casado con Charlotte. Todos estan invitados a una fiesta durante un fin de semana en la propiedad de la madre de Desiree. Charlotte intenta seducir a Fredrik para vengarse de Desiree. Mientras tanto, Anne, la casta esposa de Fredrik, se da cuenta de lo mucho que le atrae su hijastro.
Hemsöborna
Rapp
Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt
Post office customer
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 super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete.
Salka Valka
Katrinus
A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
Karin Månsdotter
Servant
Karin no pertenece a la nobleza, pero a pesar de ello se casa con el mentalmente desequilibrado rey Erik XIV, convirtiéndose en reina de Suecia. El habilidoso consejero del rey Göran Persson quiere una política real que apoye al pueblo y apoyada por él. Pero en relación a la nobleza el rey oscila entre provocativas exhibición de fuerza y una impredecible debilidad.
Storm over Tjurö
Man
Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Enchanted Journey
The Theatre Director
A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.
Dirch Passer vælter byen
Burglar
Dirch Passer as detective and lady friend in this Swedish/Danish comedy movie
Vi tre debutera
Artist at Mosebacke torg
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
Man smoking cigar
For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Hård klang
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 the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
Un solo verano de felicidad
El joven graduado de secundaria Göran y el joven de 17 años Kerstin se conocen en la finca del tío Persson de Göran y se enamoran. Pero su relación es observada sospechosamente por el mundo adulto atascado. Si bien Persson entiende a los jóvenes, los padres de Kerstin y el pastor de la aldea protestan contra la supuesta inmoralidad de los jóvenes. A pesar de toda la malicia, Göran y Kerstin deciden por su amor. Pero este amor debería durar sólo un verano.
Un solo verano de felicidad
Hospital patient
El joven graduado de secundaria Göran y el joven de 17 años Kerstin se conocen en la finca del tío Persson de Göran y se enamoran. Pero su relación es observada sospechosamente por el mundo adulto atascado. Si bien Persson entiende a los jóvenes, los padres de Kerstin y el pastor de la aldea protestan contra la supuesta inmoralidad de los jóvenes. A pesar de toda la malicia, Göran y Kerstin deciden por su amor. Pero este amor debería durar sólo un verano.
Regementets ros
To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.
When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
Hotell manager
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
Inventive Johansson
Handyman "Inventive Johansson" from the popular swedish comics is now live in his own movie and can handle an oil can and a screwdriver as inventive as brushes and eggs.
Motorkavaljerer
An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star.
Swing it, Boccaccio
The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer house and suddenly get a flat tire. The fate brings them together with seven young women whose car has fallen out for the same accident.
Kronblom kommer till stan
Mr. Andersson (uncredited)
Kronblom wins a little pig in a lottery and starts to build a sty for his new friend.
Hur tokigt som helst
"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 poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.
The People from Simlangs Valley
A Guest Is Coming
Pettersson, godsägare
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.
Här kommer vi ...
The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.
Kronblom
Station Inspector (uncredited)
A couple of thieves are terrorizing the village of Vinkelboda, and Kronblom becomes a suspect and must clear his name. Based on the popular Swedish comic strip Kronblom, about the laziest man in town.
Crisis
Concert flute player at the ball
Nelly tiene dieciocho años y vive en casa de su madre adoptiva. La adolescente no deja de soñar con el que será su primer baile, organizado por el ayuntamiento de su pequeña ciudad. La chica escribe a su madre, Jenny, que vive en Estocolmo, para conseguir un vestido bonito. Jenny aprovechará la ocasión para visitar a su hija, acompañada de su amante, Jack, un actor fracasado y suicida.
Sextetten Karlsson
The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.
Fia Jansson från Söder
restauranggäst
Luft-Kalle and Kol-Jocke get into adventures in southern Stockholm around midsummer.
Kajan går till sjöss
Fat man
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 countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
Hon trodde det var han
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 Storm comes to his apartment, he finds a burglar, Kurre. He notices that they have a physical similarity and they change identity, which makes it possible for Storm to make empirical studies in the world of crime.
Landstormens lilla argbigga
Guest at the hotel
Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
Alla tiders Karlsson
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
Kungen kommer
Guest at the royal ball
A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.
Karl Fredrik Reigns
A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.
Atlantäventyret
Ship's crew
Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.
Hemliga Svensson
Café owner
The little town Västerköping needs a new police man - but the only applicant is the small and tiny Fridolf. He gets the job but has to work with the big and strong police inspector Göransson. The town is visited by a crook who has specialized in stealing from local councils. Can this unusual pair stop him?
Saturday Nights
Två hjärtan och en skuta
Young Gustaf Svensson has been warned by his father that he should stop chasing girls.
Love and Cash Shortages
Olsson
Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now the auditors are on their way to check the bookkeeping. It seems that the senior accountant isn't the only embezzler in the town, even the chief of police is a member of the Embezzler's Club. Margit decides to help the senior accountant.
Sin
Guest
A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
Two Kings
Boat passenger
The young adventurer Signature Hjelm meets one day a runaway carriage, and succeeds by a resourceful and daring intervention to avert an accident. The rig belongs to Gustav III's favorite, Baron Armfelt, and as a reward for his feat will Ture service of the king's guard. Conspirators trying maple certainly entice him over to the king's enemies, but Ture reports Gustaf receiving a grim and determined expression on his face: "Spies even here!" His confidence Signature increases.
The Fairy of Solbakken
Church visitor
Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.