
Karl-Arne Holmsten
Acting
Biography
Karl-Arne Holmsten was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He made his film debut in Ragnar Arvedson's "Kustens glada kavaljerer" in 1938. Karl-Arne Holmsten portrayed the elegant detective John Hillman in five films by Arne Mattsson, based on Folke Mellvig's novels. He also played Maria Lang's detective Christer Wijk in two films.
Known For

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.
Waiting Women

Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people around laugh.
Skrattbomben

The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.
The Yellow Squadron

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Swinging at the Castle

A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Mannequin in Red

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.
Just a Waiter

Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.
Klasskamrater

Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi Lundgren, who obviously did everything to vamp him.
Fröken Kyrkråtta
Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
Vi på Väddö

People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz Hopf. Things might get out of hand in this exciting thriller in true Hitchcockian style.
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person

A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
Girl with Hyacinths

While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.
Crime in Paradise

Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.
Emelie Högqvist

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
When Darkness Falls

Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and is shocked to see how her husband and children regard her as a live-in housekeeper. She convinces Karin to take a vacation with her in Stockholm.
Mamma tar semester

Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten

Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.
Sommar och syndare

A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.
Ljuset från Lund

Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.
To Help the Lady of the House

Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.