Personal Info
Birth date
1910-02-08 (115 Years)
Day of death
1998-07-01
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Malmberget, Norrbottens län, Sweden
Also known as
-Stig Järrel
Biography
Stig Järrel (8 February 1910 – 1 July 1998) was a Swedish actor, film director and revue artist. Järrel was one of the most popular actors in Sweden during his career, and also one of the most productive, participating in a total of 131 films. He also performed as an actor at various Swedish theatres and was a frequent guest on radio and television.
Filmography
The Red Room
7
Overview:
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.The Devil's Eye
7.159
Overview:
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.Torment
7.115
Overview:
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.We Two
4
Overview:
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.The Staffan Stolle Story
5.9
Overview:
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.Minns ni?
NYR
Overview:
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.Flames in the Dark
5.5
Overview:
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?Iris and the Lieutenant
7.4
Overview:
Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.Miss Chic
4.3
Overview:
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.With You in My Arms
5.5
Overview:
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.Vi tre
NYR
Overview:
Kristina and Sture is married and has a little baby boy, Olle. Sture is an architect and while he is struggling with his business, his wife Kristina gets lonesome and starts to get take an interest in Sture's Norwegian architect colleague, Arne Ranck.There Burns a Fire
NYR
Overview:
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
5.3
Overview:
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...Jag är eld och luft
NYR
Overview:
Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.Flottans Muntergökar
NYR
Overview:
Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.Interlude
4
Overview:
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.Walpurgis Night
4.875
Overview:
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.Web of Desire
4.2
Overview:
Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.The White Cat
6.3
Overview:
A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.The Halo Is Slipping
4.5
Overview:
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.While the Door Was Locked
6.4
Overview:
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.The First Squadron
6.2
Overview:
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
NYR
Overview:
Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.I rök och dans
5.5
Overview:
Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.The Nuthouse
4.2
Overview:
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentionsHenpecked
NYR
Overview:
An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.Little Martin Returns
5.563
Overview:
Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.Incorrigible
2
Overview:
Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
5.3
Overview:
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 female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.Acting
1993Minns ni? as (archive footage)
1990Stig Järrel 80 år as Self
1987Gösta Ekman - En levande legend as Self
1980Den ynkryggen Valdemar as Gunnar Emanuelsson
1979Trolltider as Gorm
1974Gustav III as Pechlin
1973Living pictures as The priest
1970The Red Room (9 Episodes) as Bokförläggare Smith
1969Gallows as Unknown
1968Easter as Lindqvist
1967Henpecked as Unknown
1963Sällskapslek as Carl Stjernesten
1962Ticket to Paradise as Director Lund
1961The Pleasure Garden as Ludvig Lundberg
1961Ljuvlig är sommarnatten as Sebastian Petrén, managing director
1960The Devil's Eye as Satan
1960The Wedding Day as Narrator
1960Decimals of Love as Nils Fähger
1960Three Wishes as Unknown
1959Heaven and Pancakes as Sture Turesson
1959Enslingen i blåsväder as Unknown
1959Miss Chic as Urbáhn
1957Web of Desire as Fencer
1957Blonde in Bondage as Kreuger - Drug Lord
1957Enslingen Johannes as Enslingen Johannes
1957Mamma tar semester as Director Sandell
1957The Halo Is Slipping as Karl Anton
1956Rasmus, Pontus and Toker as Sword-swallower Alfredo
1956Little Fridolf and Me as Ludde
1956Syndare i filmparadiset as Unknown
1956The Staffan Stolle Story as Ulf Christer Lefverhielm
1956Children of the Night as Unknown
1956Pettersson i Annorlunda as Gustav Pettersson
1956Seventh Heaven as Sture Tureson
1956The Right to Love as Bernhard Borg
1956Litet bo as Unknown
1955The Happy Shoemaker as Strömbäck, usurer
1955Flottans Muntergökar as Captain Rickard
1954Simon the Sinner as Reverend Rickman
1954Karin Månsdotter as Olof Gustavsson Stenbock
1954Flicka utan namn as The fur trader
1954Flicka med melodi as Unknown
1954Skattefria Andersson as Gustav Andersson, kallad Skattefria Andersson
1954I rök och dans as Handlarns Per
1954Dirch Passer vælter byen as Captain Jacob Grönkvist
1954The Lunch-break Cafe as Ali Baba
1953Resan till dej as Bruno Vikström
1953Fartfeber as Chief Constable
1953The Road to Klockrike as Axne, vagabonde
1952Oppåt med Gröna Hissen as Billy Forsberg
1952Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo as Unknown
1952Drömsemester as Porter / Police / Newspaper editor / Landlady / Customs officer / Gipsy / Gentleman
1952Defiance as Unknown
1952Vara eller inte vara as Unknown
1952Adolf i toppform as Unknown
1952One Fiancé at a Time as Adolf Lundkvist, handelsresande i damunderkläder
1952Åke klarar biffen as Unknown
1952Säg det med blommor as Unknown
1951Helen of Troy as Hector
1951Poker as Mr. Alkeryd a.k.a. The Spider
1951Livat på luckan as Unknown
1951The Nuthouse as Birger Sjögren
1951Spöke på semester as Borgkrona
1950Perhaps a Gentleman as Stig Järrel
1950The White Cat as Algot
1950When Love Came to the Village as Teacher Axel Brunell
1950Fianceé for Hire as Major Pålman
1950Motorkavaljerer as Major Eggert
1950Terras fönster 3 as Unknown
1950Två trappor över gården as Art collector
1949Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket as Director Wiland
1949Pippi Longstocking as Albin Rosén
1949Swing it, Boccaccio as Sten Rampe / Dioneo / Selabeatto / Stig Järrel
1949Sjösalavår as Carmencita's father
1949Hin och smålänningen as Unknown
1949Gatan as Sven Andreasson
1948The Woman Drives Me Crazy as Unknown
1948Sin as Brust
1948Strange Harbor as The man in the fur coat
1948Little Martin Returns as Sture Lagerström
1948Love, Sunshine and Songs as Narrator / Man in Bathrobe
1948Each to His Own Way as Nils Brenner
1947Får jag lov, magistern! as Unknown
1947Tappa inte sugen as Valle, author
1947The Sixth Commandment as Krister Ekberg
1947Det vackraste på jorden as Unknown
1947Maria as Movie director Harry Sörbom
1947The Bride Came Through the Ceiling as Sigvard Lejoncrona
1947Onda ögon as Unknown
1946While the Door Was Locked as En kund hos Bojan
1946Iris and the Lieutenant as Harald
1946Incorrigible as Björn "Mankan" Mander
1946Affairs of a Model as Unknown
1946Peggy på vift as Frank Bing
1946Interlude as Martin Dahlberg
194513 Chairs as Strand
1945Gomorron Bill! as Julle Spant
1945Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It as Sture / Märta
1945Wandering with the Moon as The Vagabonde
1945Skådetennis as Himself
1945Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas as lawyer Barman
1945The Royal Rabble as Stridström
1944...och alla dessa kvinnor as Gunnar Skönman
1944The Girl and the Devil as "Guffar", travelling salesman
1944Torment as Caligula
1944Like Everyone Else as Enander
1944Jag är eld och luft as Pharmacist Edvind Franzen, Jenny's first husband
1944Den osynliga muren as Victor Reis
1944Hans officiella fästmö as Unknown, Otto, Ludvig's uncle
1944Lev farligt as Otto Frank
1944His Excellency as Major Monk
1944Kungajakt as Unknown
1943Herre med portfölj as Manager Bexell
1943I dag gifter sig min man as Unknown
1943Herr Collins äventyr as Unknown
1943There Burns a Fire as Paul Winter
1943Som du vill ha mej as Dr. Holm
1943Vi mötte stormen as Gustav Söderberg
1942Happiness Is on Its Way as Georg Hedberg
1942Flames in the Dark as Birger Sjögren
1942En sjöman i frack as Professor Petréus
1941En fattig miljonär as Nils "Nisse" Holm
1941Fröken Vildkatt as Jimmy Cronklinga
1941The First Squadron as Lieutenant Sperling
1941Så tuktas en äkta man as Baltzar Hassler, bankir
1941Life Goes On as Kristensson (uncredited)
1941Nygifta as Dr. Albert Lundberg
1940Romans as Unknown
1940With You in My Arms as Felix Tallgren
1940Hanna in High Society as Unknown
1940Vi tre as Baltsar Ekberg
1940Karl för sin hatt as Jimmy
1940Hennes melodi as Unknown
1940...som en tjuv om natten as Unknown
1939We Two as Baltzar Ekberg
1938Herr Husassistenten as Unknown
1938Vi som går scenvägen as Unknown
1937Lyckliga Vestköping as Rolf Gånge
1937En flicka kommer till sta'n as Unknown
1936Ä' vi gifta? as Maestro O. Toni, fiolinist og komponist
1936Raggen - det är jag det as Unknown
1936Samvetsömma Adolf as Anton
1935Walpurgis Night as Grane
1935Larsson i andra giftet as Unknown
Crew
1990Stig Järrel 80 år ... Thanks