Lars HansonFilmography

Born:: July 26, 1886 in Goteborg, Sweden
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: With a delicate face and set of hands that seemed to have been carved from soft porcelain, Lars Hanson was the silent era's archetypal Sensitive Swede. In films in his native country from 1913, Hanson gained international recognition for his wrenching portrayal of the title character in The Atonement of Gosta Berling...Read More

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Intill Helvetets Portar

Actors: Lars Hanson, Gunnel Broström, Olof Bergstrom, Nils Dahlgren, Anna Lindahl

Synopsis: Swedish actor Lars Hanson, best known to American audiences for his sensitive performances in such silent classics as The Scarlet Letter and Flesh and the Devil, heads the cast of Intill Helvetets Portar. The title translates as Till the Doors of Hell, a not-so-oblique reference to the Read More

1948
Excellensen

1944
On the Sunnyside

Actors: Lars Hanson, Ingrid Bergman, Karin Swanstrom, Edvin Adolphson, Marianne Lofgren

Synopsis: Based on a play by Helge Krog, Pa Solisdan (On the Sunny Side) was one of Gustav Molander's most popular films. Lars Hanson stars as wealthy Harold Ribe, who steals naïve provincial girl Eve (Ingrid Bergman) away from lothario novelist Joachim Brink (Edvin Adolphson). Feeling that Eve lacks Read More

1936
Valborgsmassoafton

Actors: Lars Hanson, Ingrid Bergman, Karin Carlsson

Synopsis: In this Swedish film, Clary (Karin Carlsson) the beautiful wife of successful businessman Johan Borg (Lars Hanson), makes the unhappy discovery that she is pregnant. Unwilling to suffer through the emotional and physical effects of bearing a child, Clary opts to keep the information from her Read More

1935
The Informer

Synopsis: In this drama, an impoverished Irishman decides to turn an IRA colleague into the cops to receive a desperately needed reward that will allow him to escape to America with his mistress. Unfortunately his plans go awry and the young man is filled with guilt by his friends who once held his high Read More

1929
Heimkehr

Actors: Dita Parlo

Synopsis: Most of the late silent films of German director Joe May exhibited what one cinema historian has described as "a synthesis of Hollywood and Neubabelsberg." Put in layman's terms, May's later films were assembled with his usual German craftsmanship and eye for impressionism, but with most of the Read More

1928
Synd

1928
The Divine Woman

Actors: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman, Polly Moran, Dorothy Cumming

Synopsis: One of the great directors of the silent era, Victor Sjostrom, teamed with fellow Swede Greta Garbo for this drama. The great Garbo plays Marianne, a young woman from Brittany who was neglected by her impoverished parents. Marianne longs to be an actress and moves to Paris, where theatrical Read More

1928
The Wind

Actors: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle

Synopsis: The Wind, Victor Sjostrom's final American film, is a western only in its locale: its symbolism-laden story of physical and spiritual repression, culminating in a violent, hysterical outburst, has more in common with the European or Scandanavian cinema than with the usual MGM product. Lillian Gish Read More

1928
Captain Salvation

Actors: Lars Hanson, Marceline Day, Ernest Torrence, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man of the cloth. Anson Campbell (Hanson), however, has his doubts as he studies for the ministry -- he loves the sea at least as much as he loves God. Bess Morgan (Pauline Read More

1927
Buttons

Actors: Gertrude Olmstead, Jackie Coogan, Lars Hanson, Roy D'Arcy, Paul Hurst

Synopsis: Buttons was another mild entry in the ever-fading career of juvenile star Jackie Coogan. This is the story of a London slum boy who manages to land a job as a page on a luxury ocean liner. Performing above and beyond the call of duty, "Buttons" prevents leading lady Gertrude Olmstead from entering Read More

1927
The Scarlet Letter

Actors: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, William H. Tooker

Synopsis: Based on the classic American novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this silent period drama was put together by star Lillian Gish, who was forced by Louis B. Mayer to assure religious groups that the still-controversial material would not offend their sensibilities. Gish plays heroine Hester Prynne, who Read More

1926
Flesh and the Devil

Actors: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, William Orlamond

Synopsis: A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the Austrian army, lifelong friends John Gilbert and Lars Hanson return to their loving families. At a reception in Hanson's honor, Gilbert makes the acquaintance of the Read More

1926
Ingmarsarvet

1925
Gösta Berlings Saga

Actors: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson

Synopsis: Known under a variety of titles, The Atonement of Gosta Berling is an excellent representation of the Swedish silent cinema. Long, complex, and elaborately produced, the film nonetheless never loses sight of the human elements which motivate the story. Lars Hanson stars as Berling, a defrocked Read More

1924
Riddaren Av i Gar

1920
Sangen Om Den Eldroeda Blomman

1919

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Lars HansonFilmography

Intill Helvetets Portar

Excellensen

On the Sunnyside

Valborgsmassoafton

The Informer

Heimkehr

Synd

The Divine Woman

The Wind

Captain Salvation

Buttons

The Scarlet Letter

Flesh and the Devil

Ingmarsarvet

Gösta Berlings Saga

Riddaren Av i Gar

Sangen Om Den Eldroeda Blomman

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