Björn Granath
Birthday: Born in 1946-04-05 in Örgryte, Göteborg och Bohus län, Sweden
Deathday: 2017-02-05
Björn Granath was a Swedish actor.
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Character: Adler
At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today....
Smash
Character: Speakerröst
Classic comedy about the lives of four very unsuccessful tennis players....
Smash
Character: Programledare
Classic comedy about the lives of four very unsuccessful tennis players....
Solsidan
Character: Jan Genell
The series is named after a small part of Saltsjöbaden called Solsidan. It revolves around Alex and Anna who are expecting their first child and have just moved to Alex's childhood home in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm County. Alex tries to get Anna to enjoy herself, and at the same time spend time with his childhood friend Fredde....
Kvinnan i det låsta rummet
Character: Erik Bauer
Axel is unemployed and works illegally in an apartment. The young Linnéa who lives there has completely isolated herself from the outside world. Why does she stay locked up?...
Apelsinmannen
Character: Stånghammar
Birgitta is a young student in the 50's. Living among drugdealers, prostitutes, homosexuals and killers in Stockholms nightlife......
Talismanen
Character: Leonard Sköld
Wallton, a sacked former policeman, is assigned to locate a priceless Arabian jewelry, a talisman. According to legend, the talisman brings misfortune and death to anyone who unlawfully takes the jewelery. The hunt for the mysterious talisman leads Wallton through all layers of society, and he encounters one mysterious death after another....
Julkalendern
Character: Grannen Gustavsson
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Julkalendern
Character: Konrad
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Fallet
Character: Arne Arnesen
A Swedish detective and her timid British colleague's attempt to solve a gruesome murder case nets mixed results and miscommunication....
Playa del Sol
Character: Ägaren HK
Playa del Sol is a Swedish comedy, directed by Peter Settman and Leif Lindblom and Jon Holmberg and Kicki Kjellin, which were broadcast on Sundays at 20.00 on SVT 1. The series consists of two seasons, with a total of 25 half-hour episodes. Season 1 aired from 21 January 2007 to 15 April 2007 while season 2 aired from 27 September 2009 to 20 December 2009. Starring Mikael Tornving and Henrik Hjelt. The first episode was seen by over 2.36 million viewers....
Sjukan
Character: Bartender
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Fasadklättraren
Character: Syrén
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Ivar Kreuger
Character: Översten
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Madicken
Character: pappa
Madicken's life on Junibacken is filled with ups and down....
Da Möb
Character: Maurice (voice)
Da Möb is a Swedish animated series, created by Magnus Carlsson, about three youngsters who form a rap band called Da Möb. They try to get a record deal. It aired in the United States from 2001–2002 and in Sweden from 2002-2003. The name Da Möb comes from The Mob with a joke heavy metal umlaut....
Vår tid är nu
Character: August Drugge
Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class girl Nina and kitchen hand Calle don’t yet know that their brief encounter will come to have tumultuous consequences....
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
Character: Alfred Adler
The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of the early 20th century, and participating in the events that helped shape history....
Sagan om Skrotnisse och hans vänner
Character: Efraim av Alexandria (voice)
The story of "Skrotnisse" and his son "Kalle" who works at a junk yard, and the adventures they experience....
Människans lustgårdar
Character: Voice
A documentary series by Katarina Dunér about the history of European horticulture...
Varuhuset
Character: Spion
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Bron/Broen
Character: Kjell
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer....
Lykkeland
Character: Ture Nerman
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Pelle the Conqueror
Character: Erik - Swedish Farm Worker
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America....
Han som fick leva om sitt liv
Character: Daniel
The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes....
Evil
Character: Rektor
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble....
The Jönsson Gang & the Black Diamond
Character: Lohman
Sickan, the leader of the criminal Jönsson gang is incarcerated in a mental institution, attended by Dr M.A. Busé, who admire a handbook in crime that Sickan has been writing. Blackmailed by the nefarious banker Wall-Enberg, Dr Busé and Sickan's partners Vanheden and Dynamite-Harry execute Sickan's plan of stealing the valuable Black Diamond of the Romanovs from the National Museum....
Madicken of June Hill
Character: Jonas Engström
A second movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about two sisters and their adventures in 1910s Sweden....
Big Business
Character:
Gösta Eriksson, a hairdresser, buys a car from used-car dealer Bertil Planåker. But Gösta soon discovers that the car is a wreck. Planåker won't give him his money back, in fact he denies ever having seen Gösta. Gösta's brother Rolle is released from prison and promises to help him. They form an investment company, Parabola, and convinces Planåker to invest a lot of money in it. Planåker has a lot of shady business colleagues who also invest their money. Gösta's and Rolle's scam becomes much big...
The American
Character: Hunter #2
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him....
You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
Character: Jonas Engström
Madicken is a Swedish girl from the upper level family, growing up during the time of first world war which did not include Sweden. She lives happily with her family, experiencing the world and making brave and crazy things....
The Chosen
Character: Erik Swahn
A couple of brutal and mysterious murders point to Uppsala University. Johan, a last year student at the police academy, gets involved in the investigation. He enrolls a course at the University in order to, under cover, track down the killer....
The Best Intentions
Character: Oscar Åkerblom
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress....
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Character: Gustav Morell
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece...
A Paradise Without Billiards
Character: administrator
An Italian man emigrates to Sweden after getting tempted by the picture painted by his friend's letters but finds the reality quite different....
Elina: As If I Wasn't There
Character: The Doctor
In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a staunch schoolmistress who starts hounding Elina for questioning her authority. Elina's mother, sister, and a liberal young male teacher all try to mediate the ensuing battle of wills between Elina and Miss Holm. Elina finds consolation in wandering out on the d...
The Individual Citizen
Character: Allan Dahlman
Insurance Director Stig Roxby is worth a hundred times more than an ordinary high school teacher. But he doesn't think that's enough, but sees himself forced to work with four other director colleagues to lift the bonus cap to be even more valuable. After some complications, Stig Roxby realize the brutal truth: he has everything but the essentials......
Svart Lucia
Character: Principal
High school student Mikaela is attracted by her Swedish teacher Göran and writes an erotic novel for his class....
The White Lioness
Character:
In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ......
I Am Curious, Film
Character: af Klercker
The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries...
Sällskapsresan II - Snowroller
Character: Mr. Jönsson
Stig-Helmer takes another vacation with his norwegian friend Ole. This time it's time for a skiing vacation in the Alps. Of course, Stig-Helmer has never learnt downhill skiing, but he attends a ski school. And together they manage to charm two women also on vacation....
Den nervöse mannen
Character: Bank clerk
Sigvard has poor finances and a tangled marriage. He happens to come across a larger sum of money. Sigvard sees this money as a way out of his sad everyday life, but many other people are curious about his fortune....
Nobel's Last Will
Character: Ernst Ericsson
While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is the key witness and is bound by the police not to disclose anything she has seen. A terrorist group with connections to the Middle East quickly admits responsibility for the murder. International press is all over the story, as are the police....
Pirates of the Lake
Character: Father
It is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing boat to take a boat trip so they steal it. They plan to examine all of Lake Maelaren, but a storm breaks out and the boat sinks. They go ashore, steal food and a new boat. While everybody else believes them to be dead, they have a wonderful time. They meet a crazy Count and find a dead body....
Sherdil
Character: Arméchefen
Sanna is a young girl who wishes nothing else then a very own horse. One day on her way to school she ends up in a stable where three Arabian horses is being held in quarantine....
Expectations
Character: The Economist
A recently separated ladies' magazine reporter, a young couple who are in love, an unfaithful but jealous crane driver, a longing father and his unknowing daughter, the home coming fisherman's son who seeks reconciliation with his parents, the farmer who thirsts for tenderness. We meet them all in Svenska hjältar, a modern saga about the chipped heroes of everyday life....
Female Human
Character:
A collage about gender roles. Collective film by Janne Brodin, Arne Hedlund, Per Lundkvist and Maj Wechselmann....
Lithivm
Character: Henrik Laurentsson
Hanna has had an internship at a newspaper and starts in search of a scoop dig into a case of missing women. Her research makes her run straight for a serial killer....
August Strindberg - Ett författarliv
Character:
The film is produced in collaboration with the August Strindberg museum and in a relatively short time gives a summarized picture of Strindberg's life....
Bit by Bit
Character:
The story of J whose goal is to be world master at playing Nintendo. He struggles with his traditional Jewish family and non-Jewish girlfriend who demand that he grow up and get a job. Real problems arise when he awakes to discover that his right hand is missing....
The Last Sentence
Character: Axel Forssman
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than his daughter, and the suicide of his wife. However, he continues to fight a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death, throwing the question...
A Respectable Life
Character:
"A Respectable Life" - A decade has gone by and the spirit of the preceding film, Dom kallar oss mods, has disappeared. Kenta is an alcoholic and lives with his girlfriend Eva. Together they have a son, Patric. Kenta's mom is in jail for manslaughter and Kenta goes to Kronoberg to greet her. Heroin also comes to play and Stoffe is one of those who falls victim to it. He lives with his girlfriend Lena and their young son, Janne. Lena later throws Stoffe out their home when she gets enough of his ...
In the Footsteps of Stig Helmer
Character: Self
In the Footsteps of Stig Helmer is a 66 minute documentary about the making of a series of comedy movies focusing on the character Stig Helmer and his vacationing trips, all filled with comical events and complications....
Crestfallen
Character: Eskil
When Tuva's parents die in a car crash, she learns that she is adopted. Disappointed with those around her for never telling her the truth, she sets off with her own daughter in search of her biological mother....
As White as in Snow
Character: Sven Andersson
Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix....
The Last Gasp
Character: Georg af Klercker
A fictional meeting at the headquarter of the Swedish Film Industry between the former director Georg af Klercker and the business man behind SF (Svensk film): Director Charles Magnusson. A drunk and bitter Klercker baffles on about old movies, shared memories from their time together in Lidingö. Can he get a chance to make a new movie?...
Ubåt! En till sannolikhet gränsande visshet
Character: Narrator (voice)
In 1982, one year after the Soviet submarine U-137 had been found beached in Swedish waters, the Swedish government claimed to have captured another submarine in its waters. As time went on and no submarine turned up the shouts for proof grew louder and luder....
Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness
Character:
A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases....
Assault and Battery
Character: Björn
The rebellious socialist Knut is subjected to a mental evaluation after he assaults a stranger on the street. Psychologist looking track Knuts aggression in childhood experiences while Knut himself sees them as a natural reaction to the class society's oppression....
The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
Character: Aspelin
A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and...
Sabbatssabotören
Character: Narrator (voice)
Drama documentary about a league of dynamitards who had Stockholm in terror in 1946....
Min pappa är Tarzan
Character: skrothandlaren
Moa is seven years old and lives with her mother and her hamster. When her mother gets a new boyfriend Moa starts fantasising about her father's life in Africa....
Here Is Harold
Character: Kamprad
For over 40 years, Harold has been running a successful business, Lunde Furniture, together with his wife, Marny. This comes to an end when IKEA decides to open a new superstore right next door to Harolds small furniture shop. Harold and Marny lose both their shop and their home to the bank, and to make matter worse, Marny is starting to lose her memory. In mounting anger and desperation, Harold wants revenge. He arms himself with a pistol, gets into his old Saab, and sets off for lmhult, Sweden...
Muntra fruarna i Windsor
Character: Sir John Falstaff
A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England....
The Ox
Character: Flyckt
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events....
Eye of the Eagle
Character:
In 1218 Danish king Valdemar sends his homonymous young son and heir in safety, as war is at the borders, to Erskil, the bishop of Ravensburg, who is instructed to see to the prince's education. Alas the bishop is the brain of a conspiracy to seize the crown for himself, as most of the nobles are dissatisfied with the endless wars that bring them no profit. The prince and kitchen-boy Aske accidentally fall out of the castle and overhear the conspirators, but are seen and pursued by the men of th...
Evert
Character:
A crime is defined as an act which follows by a punishment, according to applicable law. Therefore it can not be a crime unless you are punished. But then it will not be the perfect crime either. Just perfect....
Heaven on Earth
Character: Bjelke
A life-affirming story about how the power of love, music and dance can change people. This is a standalone sequel to "As it is in Heaven"....
Ivar Kreuger
Character:
Ivar Kreuger was a businessman who influenced a whole world and whose fate is still shrouded in mystery....
Exercis
Character:
Drama about the everyday lives of Swedish soldiers....
Arkitekterna Bakom Skogskyrkogården
Character:
At a young age, the architects Asplund and Lewerentz won a competition for the new forest cemetery. They would then come to work with this creation for the rest of their lives....
The Frozen Leopard
Character: Todd
Two brothers meet again after a few years away from each other. Jerry has been in prison for petty crimes but has now decided to try to live honestly and build a family. Kiljan is a dreamer who lives a life of a bohemian....
Du gamla, du fria
Character:
A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up....
Borg vs McEnroe
Character: Bengt Grive
The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament....
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Character: The King of Sweden
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world....
Kim - Den skalliga primadonnan
Character:
About Swedish actress Kim Anderzon. Loved and acclaimed for her roles in theatre and on film. A feminist role model with a big ego. A woman who decided to do it all by herself, and who became one of our greatest actors. A life on stage. Till the cancer arrived....
Illusioner
Character: The doctor
Christer lives in a small town, he is a recently divorced taxi driver and church-yard attendant. He leads a dull small-town existence. But then a young couple arrives, Marie and Erik, and Christer starts a new life. He finds the mysterious Marie totally bewitching. She is a paralysed beauty, a double nature who is only able to talk and move her head. With an insurance fraud in the background the story turns into an erotic triangle drama....
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Character: Adler
First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to discover what love is all about. In Florence, when Indy's mother is equally smitten with Giacomo Puccini, composer of Romantic operas La Boheme and Tosca, Indy must guide his parent safely back to her spouse....
Pax
Character:
PAX is a grand-scale drama. An intimate and powerful romantic film about seven people's encounter with themselves as life forces them into the raging storm. They all have someone waiting. PAX, the Latin word for peace, is also flight terminology for flight passengers. When flying in an airplane we are all "pax"....
Som löven i Vallombrosa
Character: Fredrik
Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend....
The Dog That Smiled
Character: Rektorn
Jojje, Roffe, Sivert, Lillen, Peggy and the dog King are a tight-knit group of friends. When it turns out that King is sick and soon to die, his friends decide to give him his best time....
Saxofonhallicken
Character: The traveling salesman
Saxophone-pimp is a meditation on urban hotel as youth. Here, at the city hotel in the small town, we find the entire gallery of: the young lion dance, the drunk lady and the happy party. New for the evening is Vera, a divorced mother in her prime. Dance band saxophonist follows the awkward attempts at contact between Vera and a drummer, and decides to help her along. He plays the classic "Petite Fleur". Again and again and again ........
The Black Lapp
Character: Presten
Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ghost and is developing a serious drinking problem. Anna is looking for the love of her life, but there aren't many bachelors around - until they discovers another small family on the other side of the mountain. They meet a semi-alcoholized widow on Karl'...
Faithless
Character: Gustav
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy....
Brustna hjärtan
Character: Sten Lindgren
A melodrama with humor about an actress who makes a comeback....
Fired
Character:
Gullevi has been suppressed at work for 30 years. But when the company is going to be restructured and her job is at risk, the body reacts ......
Hot Nasty Teen
Character:
A young, teenage girl, is being filmed through a simple video camera. She is being told to dance by an older man. Two months later they are traveling together by car through small town Sweden. She wants to go home but he insists that they should go on. After all, they have a few more friends to visit. Hot Nasty Teen depicts a seemingly well-known Sweden. But underneath the ordinary surface it simmers from suppressed desires and oppression. Hot Nasty Teen brings a new and daring perspective to ma...
School Master - an Inch from Black
Character: Gorm
Schoolmaster Hoffmann on his way far down in the basement to the Janitors office to get coal for his chilly classroom, hears no warning signals. Gorm, the janitor, manipulates the gullible Hoffmann into signing a contract with a dark context....
Three Suns
Character:
An epic drama set in the 14th century. Hanna leaves her family to meet her husband after 4 years spent in the East during a long war. Hanna will find herself fighting for her love, her children and her life....
Plastposen
Character: Svensk seiler
He went out to empty the trash, but he should never have done that! Just listen to what happened to our hero Reinert Andersen in the early morning. In his bathrobe he goes quiet out to throw his garbage bag. But the bin is overfilled, and the neighbor shows up when he tries to sneak it into his. A tricky situation. He takes the speed to heave it over the hedge ... At the same time in a neighborhood bank, Henry and his gang make a successful coup, starting with the escape police pursuit. The only...
Pillertrillaren
Character: Doctor
David has just started working for a large pharmaceutical company and falls madly in love with a young and very beautiful colleague, Angelica....
Sound of Noise
Character:
A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city....