John W. Björling
Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as An Older Man on the Variety Show Stage (uncredited)
Returning home after seven years at sea, a sailor relives his youth aboard a salvage ship dominated by his abusive father, recalling love, betrayal, and the desire to escape. Told in flashback, the film explores family conflict, longing, and moral reckoning in an early milestone of Ingmar Bergman’s career.
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Card Player (uncredited)
A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as flygpassagerare
American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's biological mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Café Guest (uncredited)
A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Man in the hunting party
The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Man Carrying a Bed (uncredited)
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 marriage crashes.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar. Orvar does not know that he has inherited a large fortune but the seven brothers do and they begin to treat him with the greatest courtesy. They convince him to write his last will, making them his heirs, and then begin to make plans on how to kill him.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as man vid insamlingen
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 and modern house instead.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Åhörare
Nils Nilsson from Åsen, better known as Åsa-Nisse and his friend Klabbarparn goes Moose hunting. As a result of a sabotage, staged by their wives, Åsa-Nisse is accused for hunting with illegal weapons.
Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.