Date of birth: 1884-09-01
Place of birth: Tierp, Uppsala län, Sweden
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

Sigurd Richard Engelbrekt Wallén (1 September 1884 – 20 March 1947) was a Swedish actor, film director, and singer.

1952-05-12
A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.

1936-07-31
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.

1951-10-29
Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has

1949-02-28
"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stock

1928-12-28
Baron von Werner and Gunnar Jansson are in a dispute over property rights. Inga, the baron's daughte

1940-04-03
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her d

1940-12-26
Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.

1943-10-25
Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes a

1940-10-05
Swedish comedy from 1940. Carnival director Knut Lindberg has ended up in the hands of the usurer Di

1946-10-28
The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och h

1938-10-31
A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways wh

1935-04-08
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm

1935-01-21
A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentric

1942-09-03
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. H

1941-02-28
The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Swede

1945-10-16
A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a

1940-08-23
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

1944-03-13
In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi

1938-12-26
A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his nativ

1919-11-03
A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl M

1940-08-22
A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward th

1932-12-12
Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young wo

1915-12-13
Uncle Kalsson has won the lottery and decides to visit the family for a spending spree.

1939-01-01
Swedish comedy from 1939. Adolf Berglund is a reporter at the newspaper Morgonbladet and is sent on

1936-02-10
John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis b

1936-11-16
Bombi Bitt is the mischievous boy in 1930s Skåne whom no one can control – and the stationmaster's s

1937-10-10
A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social

1938-01-24
The boys will get a new class teacher who has discipline, they get in a lot of mischief, so much com

1938-09-09
Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.

1939-11-06
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the

1940-01-15
New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking

1933-04-09
Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.

1919-01-01
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

1931-01-01
Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father

1932-10-31
The Sjölund family on Lillholmen in the archipelago of Stockholm is quite religious and is considere

1938-06-13
This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death o

1940-08-13
In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund

1937-12-13
In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and b

1932-02-29
The waitress Inga is pregnant and the father, the sailor Edvin, tells her to find someone who can ha

1931-04-13
Jideon Andersson is the leader of the "Red Day" organization that are planning a communist takeover

1933-03-13
Gösta is unemployed and joins a gang of smugglers.

1932-12-26
A story about is stock deals and land speculations in Stockholm. The happiness depends on a horsesho

1931-11-23
Erik, Harald and Borell are fighting for Majkens heart.

1943-03-12
A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with

1935-12-26
The poor tailor of Ebberöd is visited by his American cousin, John Andrews. He brings a bag, and the

1935-09-02
The Karlsson family has a grocery store, but the son Bertil wants to set up an operetta on stage.

1934-11-19
A safe is blown up and an old soccer hero, now a policeman, get the task of solving the case.

1937-11-01
Three drifters walks on a country road. Loffe is about 35 years, Maggan about 50 years and Novisen a

1943-03-20
Brothers Fredrik and Pontus own a family company. Fredrik is the manager of the old school and Pontu

1945-08-27
Jarl is a retired widower who lives in a small village in Småland, Sweden.

1945-10-24
Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him t

1944-09-29
Johansson has a small mechanical workshop, which provides for him and his family.

1941-12-26
Nisse Holm start marketing coffee made of tree cones.

1938-10-30
In a small village there are two doctors - one professional and one quack. Dr. Bergman has to see th

1911-04-27
The young sawmill owner Anders Person has won the lottery and goes on pleasure trip to Stockholm wit
1936-01-01
Social democratic election film. The plot revolves around the young love couple Axel and Ulla, whose

1933-09-17
The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pette

1934-03-03
A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.

1918-01-01
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is
1917-11-12
In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made

1943-09-27
Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by m

1942-09-14
Inga and her father, the violin maker Lars, are big music enthusiasts. One day they meet the violini

1935-10-28
Gustav lives in Värnamo. He constructs a new boat engine, but needs time to complete it. The work ha

1946-11-11
The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize
1912-01-12
In front of the salvation Army headquarters. An old man who is being teased by a flock of children,

1937-08-30
An actress is happy when she is finally contacted by a famous director, but the director is more int

1937-01-15
"Conflict" - Shipbuilder Edvard Banck is busy building new ships, but forgets that his wife Birgit w

1941-02-20
The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.

1923-10-01
Gösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter.

1944-02-26
The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.

1932-08-01
Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now th

1939-10-21
A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam b

1930-09-15
Frida lives in a small idyllic town called Little Paris.

1932-01-18
Gunnar Gawell is mason on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play

1940-03-18
Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy,

1917-09-09
Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells H

1944-08-01
Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he

1920-03-15
A divorced woman takes matters into her own hands and destroys her late ex-husband's will, to ensure