Hjördis Petterson
Born: 1908-10-17 in Visby, Gotlands län, Sweden
Died: 1988-05-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
Hjördis Olga Maria Petterson was a Swedish stage and screen actress, pedagogue and singer. She was educated at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school, Stockholm, 1927-30, made her film debut in "Kanske en diktare/Maybe a Poet" (1933). She has appeared in more than 140 feature films.
Filmography
1993
- Minns ni? as (archive footage)
1987
- Gösta Ekman - En levande legend as Self
1985
- Mask of Murder as Ida Swanson
1984
- Duellantens ansikte as The Patient
1981
- SOPOR as Eleonora Bruse, Châtelaine
- Hans Christian and the Geographic Society as Änkan
1980
- Children's Island as Olga
- To Be a Millionaire as Mushroom picker
1978
- The Adventures of Picasso as Grandmëre (uncredited)
1974
1973
- Anderssonskans Kalle i busform as Mrs. Nilsson
1969
- The Passion of Anna as Johan's Sister (uncredited)
- The lift that went down into hell as The female devil
1968
- Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken as Selma
- I, a Woman Part II as Siv's mother-in-law
- Pappa varför är du arg? Du gjorde likadant själv när du var ung as Mrs. Svea Vikingson
1967
- Greven från gränden
- En sån strålande dag as Mrs. Karlsson
1966
- Sadist
- Doktor Knock as Lady in purple
1965
- The Cats as Anna
1963
- Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka as Agda
- Sällskapslek as Stina Grepe
1962
- Lady in White as Julia Rask
- Ticket to Paradise as Mother Rossi
1961
- The Pleasure Garden as Ellen Franzén
- Ljuvlig är sommarnatten as Fanny Falkman
- The Heist as Mrs. Jansson
1960
- When Darkness Falls as Tekla Motander
- Three Wishes
1959
- Face of Fire
- Swinging at the Castle as Madam Rochelle
- Sängkammartjuven as Guest at a party
- Fridolfs farliga ålder as Selma Olsson
- Miss Chic as Rita Rang
- Heaven and Pancakes as Mrs. Jägerström
- Enslingen i blåsväder
1958
- Miss April as Fru Berg
- Fridolf sticker opp! as Selma Olsson
1957
- Web of Desire
- The Master Detective Lives Dangerously as Mrs. Karlsson
- Enslingen Johannes as Susanna, Tomas mor
- Count on Trouble as Clara Grepeclou
- Gårdarna runt sjön as Mrs Ehrenfalk
- Lille Fridolf blir morfar as Selma Olsson
1956
- Private Entrance as Mrs. Gabrielsson
- Little Fridolf and Me as Selma Olsson
- Girl in Tails
- Rasmus, Pontus and Toker as Berta
- Ett dockhem as Gurlis mor
- Swing it, fröken as Alma Ståhlberg
1955
- Hemsöborna as Madame Flod
- Den underbara lögnen
- Friarannonsen
- The Happy Shoemaker as Millan, Dana's wife
- Flicka i kasern as Olga Seman
1954
- En karl i köket as Bertha Stenmark
- Sju svarta "Be-Hå" as Sofia Pang
- Taxi 13 as Mia Lundgren
- I rök och dans as Aurora Königsmarck
- Östermans testamente
- Dance on Roses as Olga Eckers
- Enchanted Journey as Emilie Hassel, Porslins-Birgitta's mother
1953
- Göingehövdingen as Slottsfru
- Hidden in the Fog as Annie Eriksson
- Dumbom as Svea Holmström
- We Three Debutantes
- Resan till dej as Dagmar Vikström
1952
- Defiance
- Flyg-Bom as Mrs. Wikman
- Klasskamrater as Wilma Pettersson
- När syrenerna blomma as Mrs. Lamberg
- Vara eller inte vara
- Under svällande segel as Märta
1951
- Rolling Sea
- Divorced as Kerstin Nordelius, inackorderingstant, Bertils mor
- Leva på 'Hoppet' as Teacher
1950
- Jack of Hearts as Elisabeth Canitz
1949
- Sjösalavår as Elvira's mother
1948
- Solkatten as Klara Bjurstedt
- Little Martin Returns as Fräulein Schultze
- They Fought Their Way to Freedom
- Calle og Palle as Madame Sylvia
1947
- A Ship to India as Sofi
- Stackars lilla Sven
- The Bride Came Through the Ceiling as Hilda Linnér
1946
- Försök inte med mej... as Switchboard operator
- While the Door Was Locked as Frida Johansson
- Johansson och Vestman
- It Rains on Our Love as Mrs. Anderson
- Det glada kalaset
- Eviga länkar as Hilda Granström
- Love Goes Up and Down as "Skorpionen"
1945
- 13 Chairs as Karin
- Wandering with the Moon as Linda Fristedt
- The Journey Away
- Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer as Miss Svensson
- Lidelse as Britta
- The Serious Game as Hans hustru
1944
- Appassionata as Guest at the Restaurant
- Stopp! Tänk på något annat
- Lilla helgonet as Priorinnan
- The Turnstile
- Vår herre luggar Johansson
- Dolly tar chansen
1943
- The Sin of Anna Lans as Mrs. Herlen
- I dag gifter sig min man
- Imprisoned Women as Prisoner
1942
- Sextuplets as Selma Waldner
- Morgondagens melodi
- Löjtnantshjärtan as Katrin Pålsson
- We Home Toilers as Laura Larsson
- A Singing Girl as Henriette
- Farliga vägar as Hostess
- Jacob's Ladder as Mrs. Knutsson
1941
- Lasse-Maja as Madame Agathe
- The Fight Continues as Ogifta Augusta Sofia Svensson, alkoholist
- Bara en kvinna as fru Pettersson, Stenwalls hushållerska
- Ung dam med tur
- Teacher on a Spree as Miss Hedberg
1940
- Lillebror och jag as Fröken Björkman, direktör Björkmans syster
- His Grace's Will as Julia Hyltenius
- Stora famnen
- Kiss Her! as Fru Rosa Blom
1939
- Roses Every Night
- Landstormens lilla Lotta as Mrs Fredriksson
1938
- Styrman Karlssons flammor as Mrs. Mathiesen
1936
- Alla tiders Karlsson as Hilda Malmquist
- Äventyret
- It Pays to Advertise!
- The Family Secret
- Janssons frestelse as Telephone operator
- Ä' vi gifta? as Danserinne
- Fröken blir piga
1934
- Pettersson - Sverige
- Sången till henne
- Synnöve Solbakken as Karen Solbakken
- Eva går ombord
1933
- Kanske en diktare as Cigar Lady
1928
1922
- Andersson’s Kalle as Mrs. Pilgren