---
name: "Einar Axelsson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/einar-axelsson"
fi1m_id: "einar-axelsson"
imdb_id: "nm0043509"
tmdb_id: 675616
wikidata_id: "Q5563004"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 February 1895"
died: "30 October 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:52:31.236527+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Einar Axelsson

## Identity

Einar Axelsson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/einar-axelsson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** einar-axelsson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0043509
- **TMDB ID:** 675616
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5563004
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_Axelsson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5563004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043509/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/675616

Actor. Born 25 February 1895 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden. Died 30 October 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 February 1895, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
- **Died:** 30 October 1971
- **Also known as:** Einar Axelson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_Axelsson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5563004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043509/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/675616

## Biography

Einar Axelsson (also credited as Einar Axelson) was a Swedish stage and film actor. Born on 25 February 1895 in Lund, Skåne län, he died on 30 October 1971 in Stocksund, Stockholms län.

He was the son of actors Konstantin and Amelie Axelsson and the brother of journalist George Axelsson. Axelsson began his stage career in the early 1910s and worked with companies including those of Karin Swanström and Ernst Eklund before joining the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1941. His film roles spanned the silent era to the 1970s; he is credited as David's younger brother in Victor Sjöström's *The Phantom Carriage* (1921) and appeared in numerous other Swedish productions.

*Sources: imdb.com, sv.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Phantom Carriage* (1921), Fi1m 84, as David's Brother — [page](https://film.one/film/the-phantom-carriage.md)

## Complete filmography (58)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Red Room* (1970), series, as Den gamle komikern
- *Swedish and Underage* (1969), as Editor-in-chief
- *Kärlek - Ett minnesprogram* (1967), Actor
- *Don Juan* (1965), series, as Gusman
- *A Dream Play* (1963), Actor
- *Flottans överman* (1958), as Rossling
- *The Great Amateur* (1958), as Victor Wirén
- *Swing it, fröken* (1956), as Fred
- *Girl in Tails* (1956), Actor
- *Ett dockhem* (1956), as krigskommissarie
- *Divorced* (1951), Actor
- *Solkatten* (1948), as Arvid Bjurstedt
- *Tant Grön, Tant Brun och Tant Gredelin* (1947), Actor
- *Iris and the Lieutenant* (1946), Actor
- *Bröder emellan* (1946), Actor
- *The Emperor of Portugallia* (1944), Actor
- *Fattiga riddare* (1944), as Gunnar
- *Fia Jansson från Söder* (1944), as Lindström
- *Släkten är bäst* (1944), Actor
- *I dag gifter sig min man* (1943), Actor
- *Som fallen från skyarna* (1943), as Per Jägerstam
- *I gult och blått* (1942), as Jerry Landén
- *Det är min musik* (1942), as Ragnar
- *Happiness Is on Its Way* (1942), as Berger
- *We Home Toilers* (1942), as Baron Wolfgang
- *Flickan i fönstret mitt emot* (1942), as Dalsjö
- *En sjöman i frack* (1942), as Film director Tallén
- *Magistrarna på sommarlov* (1941), Actor
- *Fransson the Terrible* (1941), as direktör A. Borg
- *Nygifta* (1941), Actor
- *Hanna in High Society* (1940), as Baltzar Hummerberg
- *Åh, en sån' advokat* (1940), as Adolf Bergfeldt
- *A Crime* (1940), as Dr. Bernhard Gilljams
- *Witches' Night* (1937), Actor
- *Lyckliga Vestköping* (1937), as Lennart Rosén
- *En flicka kommer till sta'n* (1937), Actor
- *The Ghost at Bragehus* (1936), as Arnell
- *Ä' vi gifta?* (1936), as Bo Brehmerfeldt, Monias forlovede
- *On the Sunny Side* (1936), as Olle Lagerberg
- *The Marriage Game* (1935), as Gunnar Grahn
- *Ungdom av i dag* (1935), Actor
- *Perhaps a Gentleman* (1935), as Baron Lejonsvan
- *Eva går ombord* (1934), Actor
- *A Little Flirt* (1934), as Henry Wallé
- *Giftasvuxna döttrar* (1933), as Erik Ehrenberg
- *Kärleksexpressen* (1932), Actor
- *Black Roses* (1932), Actor
- *Ådalen's poetry* (1928), Actor
- *The Girls of Solvik* (1926), Actor
- *The Girl in Tails* (1926), as Ludwig von Battwhyl
- *Getting Married* (1926), Actor
- *A Commercial House in the Archipelago* (1925), as Wilhelm Holt
- *Constable Paulus’ Easter Cracker* (1925), Actor
- *The Amateur Film* (1922), as Dick, Snyders son
- *Thomas Graal's Ward* (1922), Actor
- *The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar* (1921), Actor
- *The Phantom Carriage* (1921), as David's Brother — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-phantom-carriage.md)
- *The Girl from the Marsh Croft* (1917), as Courtroom audience

## Gallery

- ![Einar Axelsson (left) & Anders Henrikson in the Dramaten's play Fabian öppnar portarna (Fabian Opens the Gates) - publicity still (cropped) (1949)](https://film.one/media/person/3849069/gallery-9fbff51cf3b0.jpg) Einar Axelsson (left) & Anders Henrikson in the Dramaten's play Fabian öppnar portarna (Fabian Opens the Gates) - publicity still (cropped) (1949) — Unknown authorUnknown author (Svenska Dagbladets Bild-Arkiv), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Einar_Axelsson-Anders_Henrikson_in_Fabian_%C3%B6ppnar_portarna.jpg/1280px-Einar_Axelsson-Anders_Henrikson_in_Fabian_%C3%B6ppnar_portarna.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Christina Lundqvist & Einar Axelsson in the Dramaten's play Nej - publicity still (1960)](https://film.one/media/person/3849069/gallery-768bbd6280a1.jpg) Christina Lundqvist & Einar Axelsson in the Dramaten's play Nej - publicity still (1960) — Beata Berg, Stockholm, photographer (Svenska Dagbladets Bild-Arkiv), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Christina_Lundqvist-Einar_Axelsson_in_Nej.jpg/1280px-Christina_Lundqvist-Einar_Axelsson_in_Nej.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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