# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-elfstrom
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:42:39.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-elfstrom"
name: "John Elfström"
slug: "john-elfstrom"
description: "Per Johan Hilding \"John\" Elfström was a Swedish film actor who appeared in more than 120 films. He is most famous for starring in the Åsa-Nisse series of films. He primarily made lighter comedies, sometimes also appearing in heavier contexts. Ingmar Bergman had him play the blind worker in Music in Darkness (1948), and in Arne Mattsson's One Summer of Happiness (1951) he played an unpleasant priest. He was born in Ovansjö (present Sandviken Municipality, Sweden, grew up in Aspås and died in Täby."
tagline: "Actor (1902–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Elfstrom-BENKOL.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1902-04-20"
deathDate: "1981-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.87
  momentum:             14.71816687365692
  historical:           8.380385333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253345/"
    handle:    "nm0253345"
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    title: "John Elfström"
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    title: "یون الفستروم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elfstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "John Elfström"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elfstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "John Elfström"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump