Olof Thunberg
Birthday: Born in 1925-05-21 in Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Deathday: 2020-02-24
Fritz-Olof Thunberg was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1953. He appeared in a variety of films, often in a supporting role as a confident charmer, and is the voice of both Bamse and Agaton Sax in children's films and recordings.
TV Credits
Tre kronor
Character: Kyrkoherden
Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started T...
Julkalendern
Character: Dockröster
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Julkalendern
Character: Farfar
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Sjukan
Character: Österman
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Sunes jul
Character: Farfar
Sune, an 11 year old boy struggles with girl troubles and school while he and his goofy family prepares for Christmas with failed attempts at all of the usual December traditions....
Markurells i Wadköping
Character:
Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process....
Genombrottet
Character: folkpartist
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Bamse - världens starkaste björn
Character: Narrator (voice)
The adventures of Bamse and his friends Skalman and Lille-Skutt....
Håll polisen utanför
Character: Brynolf
A large number of jewelers in different central Swedish cities are exposed to burglary. The method elicits the police when the jewels were stolen without any door to the shops being broken up. When an elderly jeweler is murdered in his shop, the local police first conclude that it is another crime of the same offender, when another jeweler in the city got burglary the day before. But Sverre Sterner soon begins to suspect that completely different motives are behind the murder. The wires lead bac...
Bamse
Character: Narrator
The world's strongest (and kindest) bear....
Röda rummet
Character: Carl Nicolaus Falk
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....
Movie Credits
Ett Dockhem
Character: Rank
Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage....
Genombrottet
Character: Folkpartist
Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme....
Amorosa
Character: Ernst von Krusenstjerna
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books t...
Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
Character: Agaton Sax (voice)
Two villains escape from jail in London. They are planning an attack on Agaton Sax. Inspector Lispington and Sax are chasing the two bad guys, but the hunt is hampered by the villains have lookalikes....
Bamse i Trollskogen
Character: Bamse
Bamse is a good-hearted bear whose grandmother cooks a special kind of honey, that gives him superpowers. When someone starts transforming the bear's friends into balloons and other things, Bamse and his friends Skalman (a turtle) and Lille Skutt (a rabbit) must journey through the woods to stop this person....
En drömmares vandring
Character: Captain Stuart
Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation....
Fridolf sticker opp!
Character: Driving Instructor
A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate....
I dur och skur
Character: Ström
"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid....
Bamse and the Flying Carpet
Character: Narrator
Bamse and his friends Shellman and Little Skip end up in an adventure with a flying carpet. When there is a threat, Bamse eats a can of his "Thunder-Honey", turns into the world's strongest bear, and saves his friends....
Two Women
Character: Dancing man at Spindeln
"Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend....
Miss Chic
Character: Olofsson
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher....
Private Entrance
Character: Narrator
A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live....
Sju vackra flickor
Character: Director
Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!...
Resan till dej
Character: Press photographer
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough....
Pärlemor
Character:
Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina....
I Am Greta
Character: Self (uncredited)
Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist....
Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr
Character: Polis Rudolf Rask
The White Rose (Kalle, Eva-Lotta and Anders) and the Red Rose (Sixten, Benka and Jonte) gangs are battling for a magical stone. The rest of the time Kalle is bored. That is why Kalle and his friends play pranks on Kalles aunts Hilda and Hulda. While Hulda is laughing, Hilda is very angry and calls the police, but Kalle is able to escape. Only a few time later Hilda is kidnapped and the kidnappers want a lot of money. The gangs of the White and Red Rose are now working together to find the kidnap...
Pygmalion
Character: Alfred Doolittle
Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?...
Det är hos mig han har varit
Character:
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li....
Finnskogens folk
Character:
The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside. He wants to bring real revival....
SOPOR
Character: Narrator
One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages....
Young Jönsson Gang Showing Off
Character: Morfar Ellis
When their circus tickets get swiped, the Jönsson League boys hatch a plan to steal them back, but end up suspects in an even bigger crime!...
Dubbelsvindlarna
Character:
Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his basement waits a million kronor. The result of a successful bank robbery....
The Die Is Cast
Character: Didrik Cornelius
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?...
The Halo Is Slipping
Character: Liljeroth
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
Sommar och syndare
Character: Ove
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....
Prins hatt under jorden
Character: The singer
A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Margot and becomes her lover. Margot, however, is not alone in recruiting Erik: even the young Li is interested in him....
Vildfåglar
Character: The caretaker
"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother....
Adam och Eva
Character: Boklund
Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous....
Skrattbomben
Character: Villain
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....
The Marriage Wrestler
Character: Herr Komissarie Vilja
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros....
Jeppe på berget
Character: The Valet
A Swedish version of Jeppe on the Hill. Jeppe is a drunken peasant. The Baron and his men play a joke on him....
The Bed
Character: (voice)
A causerie about the bed's history with a mixture of recorded sections and classical music....
Röda rummet 1979
Character:
August Strindberg's "The Red Room" recreated to a science fiction world in Stockholm, a brutal, guarded and controlled existence under a total supremacy. Like in Metropolis or Airstrip One the citizens are directed to align themselves in the direction of what the higher power thinks is to their advantage. The government offices takes care of your every need....
Young Jönsson Gang: The Cornflakes Robbery
Character: Grandpa Elis
The young Jönsson gang's plan to steal "millions of filmisar" faces problem after problem before uncovering something much greater....
Monopoly
Character: Ernst Fröberg
Egil (Knut Agnred) is just an ordinary painter. But one day, when he's about to paint a fence, incredible stuff starts to happen!...
Winter Light
Character: Fredrik Blom
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God....
Sverige åt svenskarna
Character:
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to ta...
The Minister of Uddarbo
Character: Per Halvarsson
A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl....
Bamse and the Two Horse Rides
Character: (voice)
Bamse saves a little donkey from a nasty man. Together with his friends he builds a stable for it....