Stig Ossian Ericson
Birthday: Born in 1923-09-07 in Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden
Deathday: 2012-07-30
Stig Ossian Ericson (7 September 1923 - 30 July 2012) was a Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter. Ericson was born in 1923 in Härnösand, but grew up in Nyköping. Graduating at the University of Uppsala where he had been involved in various theatrical performances at the Södermanlands-Nerikes nation, he began his professional career as a mathematics teacher. He changed into the theater track in the early 1960s when he participated in the Snudd revue at the Casino Theatre in Stockholm. He later worked with Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, Bo Widerberg and Beppe Wolgers. He is probably best known as Sigurd in the Swedish block buster Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?, lillebror's father in Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson på taket, and in the 1990s as Father Fouras in Fångarna på fortet, the Swedish version of French game show Fort Boyard. Ericson died in 2012, at the age of 88, in Nacka east of Stockholm.
TV Credits
Svensson, Svensson
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Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play. Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007. Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a...
Bella Block
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Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced....
Fångarna på fortet
Character: Fader Fouras
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Karlsson på taket
Character: Lillebrors Vater
Karlsson's grandmother is the world's best racing driver and Karlsson is not so bad either. Kaxige Kirre challenges Karlsson in a box car race. Now it is up to Karlsson and Lillebror to build a really fast car so that they can give Kirre what he can stand. Little brother has made a kite at school that he wants to test fly with Bosse. Just this day, it blows a lot so the dragon wears itself out and sticks out into the sky....
Sinkadus
Character: Police Inspector Simonson
A gang of robbers misplaces their loot of gold bars in the wrong car. After a while both the gang and their new unwitting accomplice find themselves chased both by other criminals who want a cut and the police....
Ärliga blå ögon
Character: Kommissarie Simonsson
A young female scammer relying on her innocent blue eyes and ability to disguise herself tries to avoid the police that are getting ever closer....
Familjen Babajou
Character: Schmidt
Babajou family consists of mother, father, three brothers and a sister. The family has fled Idi Amin's dictatorship in Uganda to Sweden. The year is 1979, Kiss are the idols and siblings Babajous life changed overnight when my dad moved back to Africa and the mother decides that she and the children stay in the Swedish welfare state. Baker Karim has written the script with his brother Alexander, and the story has a partially autobiographical background....
Från A till Ö
Character: Hektor Lundberg
Hedvig lives in a trailer in the woods and has a nose for learning new words. Helping her is Helge, an owl who lives on her roof....
Människans lustgårdar
Character: Voice
A documentary series by Katarina Dunér about the history of European horticulture...
Tre Terminer
Character: Professor Borén
The year is 1912 at Lund University, Herman Lange arrives with ambitions to become a lawyer but soon the night life and drink seem more tempting. And then Herman meets his big love....
Den hemliga verkligheten
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Guld!
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Dockorna i spegeln
Character: Thomas
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Movie Credits
One-Week Bachelors
Character: The Illusionist
Gary's wife goes away for a week and Gary expects a week of hard work at the office. After having left her at the airport, he misses the bus. But the car mechanic Lasse gives him a ride. Although they are unlike each other, they get to know each other. Gary makes a mess of everything and can't avoid Lasse....
Karlsson on the Roof
Character: Father
Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life, who can fly using a propeller on his back and who lives in his little house on the roof....
Who Pulled the Plug?
Character: Sigurd
To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against their major competitor and they both have to resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
The Man Who Quit Smoking
Character: Hypnotist
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 Moon God
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A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. The lead detectives make a breakthrough when the killer, a cloaked figure wielding a sword and a strange mask, sends the police a video recording....
The Butt
Character: taxi driver
Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school....
Port of Call
Character: Man Reading the Court's Decision (voice) (uncredited)
A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past....
En enkel melodi
Character: Margareta's father
Young Felix is a trainee at a fire station, but he is afraid of heights and can not stand the sight of blood. His future as a fireman is doubtful and when he is suspended he steals an ambulance to prove his mettle....
Have a Wonderful Life
Character: Newspaper editor
Per is doing his military service when he finds out that his girlfriend back home in Stockholm is having an affair. He goes AWOL and tries to find a way back home. On the way he meets Hanna, the daughter of a travelling salesman who joins him on his journey....
Father to Be
Character: Director
Bosse works at an advertising agency while working on the novel of the century. At a burger restaurant he meets Lena, and before he knows it, she is pregnant. Bosse starts thinking that his life is all over, he won't get any more career opportunities, and never again will he have time for late night parties....
Tabu
Character: Björn, radioproducent
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 Women on the Roof
Character: Vicar
An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine....
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Character: Factory Worker
A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business....
Private Bom
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes...
To Be a Millionaire
Character: Mushroom picker
The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case....
The American Dream
Character: Prison warden
The film depicts the events surrounding the last public executions in Sweden....
A Summer of Love
Character: Wiren
David, a middle-aged researcher, lives happily with his wife Ingrid and their kids. By a coincident he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Eva. Their relationship will only last a few months....
The Banquet Room
Character: prästen
A young girl is a confidante to four men who regularly visit her in her apartment....
Games of Love and Loneliness
Character: Rissler
Arvid falls in love with Lydia but puts the budding romance on hold to pursue a career and material wealth. Lydia is willing to wait for Arvid, until her father dies, leaving her finances in a dire state....
System 84
Character: Magnusson
A power struggle floats in the judiciary. A dead body in a dust-bin. More death. Superintendent Sven Thorén is fed up with dead bodies. His partner Olle Lyck is tired of most of it. Not to mention System 84....
Adagio
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A couple and their strong love to each other....
Kristoffers hus
Character: Stenkil
Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died by his own hand, the image fascinates him. He grows obsessed with the dead man's story and pushes his research as far as it will go....
Min älskade
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"My Love" - A drama rich in symbols about an unsuccessful Norwegian bookseller. With a bag filled with quirky literature he wanders through Stockholm, trying to find book buyers....
Yrkesmän emellan
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Short based on Stig 'Slas' Claesson's three Stockholm stories....
En flicka på halsen
Character: Professor Bagge
A comedy about taxi driver Bengt, who finds himself in trouble when he is unable to repay a loan to loan shark Kurt. At the same time, researcher Johan receives an urgent assignment from his professor, which is complicated by the fact that he unexpectedly has to take care of Bengt's daughter Pia. Their lives become intertwined in a series of comical and dramatic events that take place in the same apartment building....
Idag Röd
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Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder....
Flight Level 450
Character: Appelgren
Sweden in the near future. A terrorist leader is planning an attack against a US oil rig off the coast of Sweden. It all develops into a tangle of environmental scandals, political corruption and murder....