Jakob Eklund
Birthday: Born in 1962-02-21 in Gothenburg, Sweden
Deathday: Alive
Jakob Anders Eklund (born 21 February 1962) is a Swedish film, television and stage actor. He portrayed the fictional police officer Johan Falk in 20 movies. His wife, Marie Richardson, played his on-screen girlfriend in the trilogy of films The Third Wave, Executive Protection and Zero Tolerance, as well as in the other 17 films about Johan Falk, released between 2009 and 2015.
TV Credits
Tusenbröder
Character:
Tusenbröder is a drama TV-series on Swedish Television in three seasons, from 2002, 2003 and 2006. The third installment of the series first opened on the big screen, March 10, 2006, edited together as one film, before later being shown on TV as a longer series....
Johan Falk
Character: Johan Falk
When Johan Falk was 19 years old he lost his girlfriend Maria and their unborn child when Maria got hit by a car. Falk takes the accident very hard and do not even go to the funeral. He decides that crime must be fought and applies immediately to the Police Academy. The movies are, however, only about Falk as an police officer with many years of experience from the National Task Force. He often goes his own way and does not shy away from using controversial methods. This leads to that the collea...
Tillsammans med Strömstedts
Character: Himself
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August
Character: Olle Montanus
In 1876, Strindberg is penniless and once again his play "Master Olof" is rejected by the Royal Dramatic Theater. Debt collectors his furniture and Strindberg is on the verge of committing suicide....
Laura Trenter presenterar
Character: Fredrik Ståhl
Three of author Laura Trenter's highly successful children's crime stories have been adapted for television and are now available as nine 30 minute episodes. Laura Trenter is the daughter of crime novelists Stieg and Ulla Trenter....
Wallander
Character: Frank Borg
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered i...
Snoken
Character: Ostric
Aided by his dog Tubbe, private detective Anders Grip solve mysteries in Stockholm from a house boat....
Heder
Character: Klas Botvid
Four partners at a law firm called "Heder" gain notoriety by helping victims of sex crimes and speaking out against patriarchy....
Pip-Larssons
Character: Patrik Larsson
In the 1950s a family with a large number of children builds their own home on wheels to be able to visit the mother's sister. During their journey they try to sell their own invention that is supposed to revolutionate the modern kitchen....
Maskineriet
Character: Henrik Hulten
Olle Hulten wakes up drunk on the ferry between Sandefjord and Strömstad. In his car is a gun and a lot of money. Simultaneously the police is chasing a robber whom have hijacked a car and is holding the security guard at gunpoint....
Movie Credits
The Third Wave
Character: Johan Falk
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought....
Executive Protection
Character: Johan Falk
After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all...
Zero Tolerance
Character: Johan Falk
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them....
Johan Falk: Vapenbröder
Character: Johan Falk
John Falk is on a routine mission with the Gothenburg police special unit GSI. With the help of a Norwegian undercover police and a civilian infiltrator in one of Gothenburg's heaviest criminal gangs, the GSI are trying buy six assault rifles and thus get them off the street. But suddenly everything changes when a new unknown player suddenly and immediately wants to buy not only those weapons but even more, including armor-piercing shells. GSI realizes that this can not be any ordinary robbers. ...
Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser
Character: Johan Falk
Johan works in tandem with the GSI organized crime unit to bring in a cadre of armored car robbers...
Johan Falk: Leo Gaut
Character: Johan Falk
A car explodes in front of a primary school where GSI boss Patrick Agrell has just left his children. The event reunites Johan Falk with Leo Gaut, a former criminal restaurant owner who Johan put behind bars a decade ago....
Johan Falk: National Target
Character: Johan Falk
Frank Wagner goes deeper undercover to infiltrate Europe's most dangerous Mafia, the Russian-est, consisting of ex - KGB officers....
Johan Falk: Operation Näktergal
Character: Johan Falk
Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution....
Johan Falk: The Outlaws
Character: Johan Falk
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them....
Daybreak
Character: Rickard
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend tim...
House of Angels
Character: Mårten Flogfält
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset....
To Steal a Thief
Character: Karl
Roger is a failed petty criminal living in Stockholm who falls in love with the cute Susanna...
Solstorm
Character: Måns Wenngren
While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka Martinsson, receives a call from her former sister-in-law, Sanna Strandgård, telling that her brother and preacher Viktor was murdered, stabbed and with severed hands, and she would be arrested. Rebecka heads to her hometown Kiruna and defends Sanna, but the evidences found by the police in her house prove her guilty and she is arrested. While investigating the crime, Rebecka is haunted by her past and ...
Like It Never Was Before
Character: Harry
The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it can never be like it was before....
Run for Your Life
Character: Erik
After giving birth to a son, Catti and her husband Mikael get entangled in an organization that hides illegal immigrants in Sweden. They slowly realize that their picture perfect country in reality is built on police brutality, state coercion and inhuman immigration policies....
House of Angels - Third Time Lucky
Character: Mårten Flogfält
A lot happens in a small village in 15 years. People fall in love, get married, have kids and divorces. Some move, some die - in Yxared just like in other places. Zac, Fanny and her daughter Alice travels back to to the small village in Ostergotland. Alice makes them return - where does she come from, what are her roots? The question about who Fanny's dad is, arises once more. And Alice, who's her dad?...
Out of Bounds
Character: Nathan
A desolate, windswept island. Stella and Oskar, a young couple, visit Stella's father Nathan who lives alone with his labrador. Stella is pregnant and looking forward to having a baby, but Oskar appears to have doubts. When Oskar falls prey to Nathan's provocations and feels bewildered by the relationship between father and daughter, a clash between the two men is inevitable, and Stella is caught in between....
Black Island Sisters
Character: Micke
The lives of three working class women in northern Sweden....
Pillertrillaren
Character: David Lesser
David has just started working for a large pharmaceutical company and falls madly in love with a young and very beautiful colleague, Angelica....
Johan Falk: Kodnamn: Lisa
Character: Johan Falk
Five men break into Frank Wagner's apartment. Frank is able to escape and seeks out the help of Johan Falk. Has someone leaked that Frank is working with the police? Frank and John don't know who knows what and whom to trust....
Such Is Life
Character: Paul Karlsson
Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self-assured Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye....
Deadly Drift
Character: Hansson
A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse......
Johan Falk: Spelets regler
Character: Johan Falk
It's been two years since John Falk and Frank Wagner broke their cooperation and Frank started working undercover with the police. Frank's search for Kevin crosses Johan's investigation and opens up a new collaboration between them - with the big difference that this time it's personal for Frank....
Johan Falk: Alla råns moder
Character: Johan Falk
GSI second in command, Sophie Nordh, flips gangster leader Seth Rydell and convinces him to infiltrate a rogue military group. For the first time GSI Chief Patrick Agrell realizes that he is using a ruthless psychopath as an infiltrator. Can Seth be trusted or does he have his own agenda?...
Pariserhjulet
Character: Mårten
Their dream of happiness and the perfect caper became a dizzying adventure, full of excitement, humor, passion and great adventure....
Johan Falk: De 107 patrioterna
Character: Johan Falk
It's a beautiful day in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg idyllic city park, when suddenly the unthinkable happens - gunfire amidst all people. Two gangsters shooting game against each other and a large police operation starts. The conflict grows rapidly to involve several gangs from Gothenburg underworld. GSI switched to try to identify a new thread which proves to be both larger and better armed than any other. The only clue is a tattoo on one of the killed gang members....
Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan
Character: Johan Falk
Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping....
Johan Falk: Barninfiltratören
Character: Johan Falk
A group of young robbers, specializing in robbing shopping center security guards, are raging through out Gothenburg. A robbery goes awry when an innocent passerby is killed. Ricky, the gang's young leader, tries to quickly find an expert who can clean the money of the dye pack that exploded while Johan Falk, and his colleagues at GSI, accelerate their hunt....
Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie
Character: Göran
They've had enough and know what has to be done....
The Birthday
Character: Erik
Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. But Catti has other plans ......
Beck 46 - The Crying Cop
Character: Börje Järnlund
The police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence gets out of hand and the police have to take further blame....
Johan Falk: Slutet var bara början
Character: Johan Falk
After the book became a success, the creator confirmed that there will be a movie out of it....
Johan Falk: From the Ashes into the Fire
Character: Johan Falk
Falk is blackmailed into smuggling a truckload of guns from Latvia....
Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds
Character: Johan Falk
GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who is specialized in undercover operations, and he has penetrated Kavkaz' activities. But suddenly something happens and Niklas disappears....
Johan Falk: Silent Diplomacy
Character: Johan Falk
When Johan and his colleagues are watching Seth and his gang member Jack, they stumble on a larger case than they expected. Seth is selling arms to terrorists, but without Jack's knowledge, in a car where Johan's old colleague Pernilla mysterious appears. While Johan begin researching what Pernilla and SÄPO is doing, Jack suspects that everything is not right with Seth and that he's working with the police....
Johan Falk: Lockdown
Character: Johan Falk
The police station is locked down. A snitch is compromised. Drastic and unexpected events take place. Both inside and outside the police station....
Johan Falk: The End
Character: Johan Falk
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family and trying to kill his wife could be the biggest mistake the organization has ever made. GSI closes up around Johan's family and the final battle begins ......
Grown Ups
Character: Per
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, forcing them into an unusual cohabitation....
Wallander: The Joker
Character: Frank Borg
When a woman is murdered outside her restaurant in front of her eight-year-old daughter, Wallander and his team link the death to a restaurant mafia....
Bert: The Last Virgin
Character: Benny Frisk
The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly....
Susanne Goes Single
Character:
Susanne happens to drive over her husband on a camping site. This is the start of a very intensive day where she gets perspective over her life. A black comedy with much depth and a woman who bears a little too much....
My Life as a Comedian
Character: Stefan
Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha as an adult performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to sold out theatres and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past....
House of Angels: The Second Summer
Character: Mårten Flogfält
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions....
Heaven's Heart
Character: Ulf
Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party....
En uppgörelse i den undre världen
Character: Tommy
The leader of a small crime syndicate meets, for the first time in years, with his teenage son in a Chinese Restaurant. Slightly awkwardly, he explains that he hopes his son to take over his business....
Brothers: The Return
Character: Petter
Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his stolen getaway boat has exploded. He tries to begin a new life in Estonia, but the longing for his family back home becomes too big and he decides to get back to Sweden. Now a tough struggle begins to get himself home to the family, a family that has moved on with their lives and also thinks that he's dead. A past as a bank robber and a fugitive is not making the journey easier. Along the way back to Sweden more problems arise that makes it even harder fo...