Toivo Pawlo
Birthday: Born in 1917-12-25 in London, England, UK
Deathday: 1979-06-14
Toivo Pawlo was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1939. He made his film debut in Rune Carlsten's "Anna Lans" (1943). In Sweden he is well known as the voice of Tyko Jonsson in Per Åhlin's "Karl-Bertil Jonsson's Christmas Eve".
TV Credits
Julkalendern
Character: Narrator
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Röda rummet
Character: Snickaren
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters....
Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang
Character: Berättare
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Kalles Klätterträd
Character: Berättare (voice)
Kalle, a small boy living in a big city, is content with lying in the top of a big tree and dreaming, for example about Emma. On the ground beneath it sits his big fat grandpa and he reads the newspaper over and over. Once in a while Kalle climbs down the tree and experiences all kinds of adventures....
Mumindalen
Character: Narrator
When Moomin wakes unexpectedly from his winter sleep, he discovers a strange, snow-covered world unlike anything he's known. As he explores, familiar faces and new friends slowly emerge from the silent winter landscape....
Movie Credits
Twelfth Night
Character: Malvolio
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...
The Man Who Quit Smoking
Character: Hugo Alighieri
The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead. Dante has a living hell while trying to quit, and hires a private detective agency called Little Secret Service who he gives free hands to stop him from smoking, While his uncle, who has taken up smoking himself, also doe...
The Adventures of Picasso
Character: Elsa Beskow / Narrator (voice)
A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that....
Do You Believe in Angels?
Character: Bergérus
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
The Yellow Car
Character: Radek
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital....
Crime and Punishment
Character: Rasumikin
A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker....
The Girl and the Devil
Character: Hans
The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
Paria
Character: Herr Y
Mr X and Mr Y both have a hidden past. Mr X committed manslaughter in his youth without being caught. Mr Y falsified a debt without being punished. Now they meet in a countryside house in the middle of a storm....
A Day Will Dawn
Character: Wounded Russian soldier
After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war....
Kurragömma
Character: Georges
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture....
A Zero Too Much
Character: Sergeant
A newspaper misprints Pontus Blom's (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) yearly income as being much more than it is; this leads to various comical situations of exceeding hilarity....
Där möllorna gå...
Character: Fritz Jönsson
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Blue sky
Character: Hamlet, språklärare
Teacher Rundqvist who works in a school in a small town in Scania is old fashioned but loved by his pupils. When a younger teacher with new ideas of teaching starts at the school Rundqvist's methods are questioned....
The Die Is Cast
Character: Hilding Björk
A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?...
Tabu
Character: Ernst Lohman
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity....
The Lie
Character: Albert, Anna's brother
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno....
Topaze
Character: Police
A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally learns to master the rules at level far superior to his former mentor, Laurent Castel-Benac....
Young Blood
Character: Åke Sjögren
Eva is a very talented and able college girl. In the summer she is going to work at a farm. There she meets a different world of unwanted children, desires and temporary relationships....
Rabies
Character: Grosshandlaren
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else....
Charlie's Climbing Tree
Character: Narrator
Charlie, a small boy living in a big city, is content with lying in the top of a big tree and dreaming, for example about Emma. On the ground beneath it sits his big fat grandpa and he reads the newspaper over and over. Once in a while Charlie climbs down the tree and experiences all kinds of adventures....
The Sin of Anna Lans
Character: Einar
At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life....
Hallo Baby
Character: The Girl's father
About a girl growing up in a big city in the seventies. She cultivates her artistic ambitions. After a series of relationships, she gets a small part in a play and becomes pregnant....
Loving Couples
Character: Lieutenant Macson
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences....
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Character: Smirre Fox (voice)
A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures....
Blackjackets
Character: Flintis Dönicke
Young Greasers, known as Raggare in Sweden, gather at a café outside Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser and kidnaps his girlfriend Bibban, when he discovers that she is out riding with other guys. Bibban falls in love with the sensitive Lasse....
The Magician
Character: Starbeck
A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in 19th century Sweden. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power....
Barabbas
Character: Slave at Mill
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place....
Number 17
Character: Guest
The sailor Calle Svensson gets a tip on a cheap hotel from a stranger. But Calle walks to the wrong house. And finds a dead man in the bed, stolen passports and signs of trafficking in a cupboard....
Christopher's Christmas Mission
Character: The father (voice)
"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve....
Inferno
Character: Doctor
August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, but often he feel they ridicule and persecute him. Isolated Strindberg venture successfully in alchemical experiments....
Kärlek på turné
Character: Sales manager
"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing....
Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Character: Filipsson
Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife....
The Banquet Room
Character: överste Grip
A young girl is a confidante to four men who regularly visit her in her apartment....
Story of a Woman
Character: Rushenov
Karin studies music in Rome and falls in love with Bruno. She learns that he is married and therefore returns to Sweden. She meets David. They marry and have a daughter. David is sent to Rome. Karin meets Bruno again....
Lyckodrömmen
Character: Announcer
The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy....