Sven Lindberg
Birthday: Born in 1918-11-20 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Deathday: 2006-12-25
Sven Lindberg (20 November 1918 – 25 December 2006) was a Swedish film actor and director. He was born and died in Stockholm, Sweden. At the 29th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Actor for the film Spring of Joy.
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En dag i taget
Character: Tage
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Ansikte mot ansikte
Character: Erik Isaksson
Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, Jenny succumbs to a breakdown. She is haunted by images and emotions from her past and eventually cannot function as a wife, doctor, or individual....
Ålder okänd
Character: Dahlberg
A scientist discovers what he believes to be a way of slowing down the aging process, and has started to administer the substance to select people....
Morsarvet
Character: Johan, Lillys styvfar
Morsarvet is a 1993 Swedish mini series directed by Staffan Roos written by, and starring, Solveig Ternström. The series was televised on Sveriges television in late 1993....
Från A till Ö
Character: Herr Hurring
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....
Sagan om Skrotnisse och hans vänner
Character: Bertil Enstöring (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...
Gäster med gester
Character: Self, contestant
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Movie Credits
Ett Dockhem
Character: Krogstad
Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage....
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Character: Enok
Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future....
Fartfeber
Character: Björn 'Tårtpapperet' Bergkvist
Gunnar and Ulf are neighbors. They are both lured into a life of crime....
When Love Came to the Village
Character: Birger Broman
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women....
The Yellow Squadron
Character: Lieutenant Rolf Hagberg
The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters....
Frökens första barn
Character: Willgott Mosch
Sonja Broberg needs to make extra money so she offers to help the author Johannes Porshammar with his latest novel about single mothers, a subject he knows very little of. However, Sonja is also single but borrows a young boy from a kindergarten, claiming to be his mother. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
Music in Darkness
Character: Hedström
Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions....
Får jag låna din fru?
Character: Bertil Lund
Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but there is one obstacle: Bertil is yet unmarried and is thus considered unsuitable. But Bertil's friend Torbjörn has an idea: Bertil can borrow Torbjörn's wife Ulla and tell everybody that she is his wife. When his colleagues at work hears that he is married, Bertil has a lot of problems to deal with. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
The Girl from the Third Row
Character: Göte Holmberg
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment....
Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
Character: Bertil Torell
Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid....
Musik ombord
Character: Rolf Wickström
Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert...
The Banquet
Character: Ivar Cotten
As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company....
The Lady in Black
Character: Christian von Schilden
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans....
The Die Is Cast
Character: Holger Palm
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?...
Den inbillade sjuke
Character: Argan, hypokondriker
Argan is a severe hypochondriac who wants his daughter to marry a doctor....
Lita på mej, älskling!
Character: Fredrik Särner
Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, they play matchmakers to make their friends Fredrik and Ulla to get together, getting an apartment of their own that way. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
Dreams
Character: Palle Palt
Susanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She accompanies her prize model, Doris, on a trip to Gothenburg so that Doris can be photographed. While traveling, both women seek out romance, Susanne with a married lover and Doris with an older gentleman who sees his deceased wife in the young model. The two women struggle to understand their romantic motivations and in the process form an unlikely friendship....
En svensk tiger
Character: Kurt Müller
Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait....
Försök inte med mej...
Character: Lennart Johansson
Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
Swinging at the Castle
Character: Svante Lamander
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family....
I dur och skur
Character: Peter
"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....
Höst i paradiset
Character: Ragnar
Ragnar Persson, a 68-year-old widower, is living at his summer cottage with his son, Mikael, and his son's pregnant girlfriend, Catti. Ragnar falls in love with his neighbour, Vendela, who runs an apple orchard. Mikael is carrying on an affair with Susanne, a childhood friend who is married to Henning, the owner of the local apple juice plant. A great rift in the family opens up when Mikael, who is always broke, accuses Vendela of just trying to get his father's money....
Face to Face
Character: Erik Isaksson
Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity....
Björnen
Character: Lukas
Widow Jelena has let it be known she does not want to meet any men and is upset when Grigorij shows up and wants to speak to her about something....
Whoops!
Character: Gary Lundberg
A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay....
Kurragömma
Character: Jens Polster-Jensen
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture....
The Nuthouse
Character:
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions...
Spring of Joy
Character: Ragnar Persson
This is story about an elderly man who's wife has just passed away. He is carrying her remains in an antique vase for burial at their cottage in the country. The story relates the trip of the old man, his son, a middle aged rock singer who lives a bohemian life in an old bus, and the son's young girl friend (Catti). Many comical mishaps and adventures befall them (and the urn) on the way to the cottage, where the story has a surprise ending. On a deeper level, the story is about the relationship...
The Birthday
Character: Ragnar
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 ......
The Lion and the Virgin
Character: Nato
After young film writer Leo has his latest screenplay rejected he retreats to his summer home on an island, on his way he meets the flight attendant Virgo and a romance soon blossoms....
A Profession for Men
Character:
A propaganda film for the Swedish professional military made during the Second World War....
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Character:
When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business....
Elvira Madigan
Character: löjtnant Ehrencreutz
The tragic love story between a line dancer and an army officer....
Resan till dej
Character: Emil Larsson
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough....
Kostervalsen
Character: Bertram Johansson
Pelle and Maja are going on a holiday to Italy. The trip is canceled. Maja travels home to her mother. Pelle is persuaded by his friend Kurt to forget Italy and accompany him to Swedish west coast instead....
Swedish Portraits
Character: Kurt Kronback
The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her....
Vi behöver varann
Character:
A female reporter invents a story about a man who threatens to take his life to protest the injustices of society. But the scam is about to be revealed. She is forced to persuade a tramp to play the fictional man....
The Serious Game
Character: Lovén (uncredited)
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man....
Stjärnsmäll i frukostklubben
Character: Gunnar Larsson
The ex pro boxer Knuttis Svensson suspects that his wife has a secret admirer....
Where The Rainbow Ends
Character: Ragnar
"Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in the lead role. But just weeks before the premiere the Swedish Enforcement Authority knocks on the door and throws Michael and his family out on the street. He and his fiancee Catti resort to all means to save his life's work and they get unexpected help from the past....
Nightmare
Character: Police Captain Peter Storm
A woman is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the road. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly the man attacks her. Eva Jansson's dead body is found by a local farmer, who calls the police. Soon after fashion designer Maj Berg comes driving the same road and is stopped by the police. When the road is cleared for traffic Mrs. Berg drives on but happens to get a flat tire. While changing to the spare wheel, she finds a black notebook in the ditch. Back in Stockhol...
Kärlek
Character:
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death....
Run for Your Life
Character: Ragnar
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....
Flickan är ett fynd
Character:
Brothers Fredrik and Pontus own a family company. Fredrik is the manager of the old school and Pontus is a professor of psychology, which theorizes that men is more intelligent than women. Astrid, a young woman, opposes these theories and Pontus decides to hires her, which Fredrik doesn't like. Astrid gets installed as in charge of advertising, and soon she begins her modernizations....
Som man bäddar...
Character:
Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, John's shy and introverted scientist who dares to admire a woman only from a distance....
... To Serve Others
Character:
A film about Stora Sköndal in Sweden where future deacons are trained and educated....
Trötte Teodor
Character:
Teodor is happy and newly married to Marianne; unfortunately, his domineering mother-in-law shares the young couple's home....
Barbacka
Character:
Connie is growing up on an estate and cling especially to Gunnar. When Connie mention that she has met a man, Gunnar gets angry and repels her. Connie decides to retaliate by taking over Gunnar's sister's husband, Boris, who is the owner of the estate....
Kyssen på kryssen
Character:
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him....
SOPOR
Character: Olof Palme
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....
Fyra dagar som skakade Sverige - Midsommarkrisen 1941
Character: Christian Günter
At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded permission from the Swedish government to transport 18,000 German soldiers from Norway to Finland across Sweden by railway. This was a difficult problem for the Swedish government. On one hand remaining friendly with Germany at the height of its power, on the other maintaining a strict neutrality. The Swedish cabinet meet in Stockholm to decide upon the best reply to the German demands....
Trummor i natten
Character: Manke
After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and the Freikorps and Andreas needs to find a place for himself in the conflict for the future of Germany....
Asta Nilsson's companion
Character: Asta Nilsson
A very old lady has lost her way in a city and a distinguished gentleman decides to follow her home....
Hidden in the Fog
Character: Myrman
A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police...
Min vän Oscar
Character: Lovén, Zoologist
Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest....
Miss and Mrs Sweden
Character: Rulle Binn
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist....
Han glömde henne aldrig
Character: Christopher "Chris" Johnson, svensk-amerikan
American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again....
Chez Nous
Character: Wirén
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way....
Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
Character: Polonius
Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed....
Det glada kalaset
Character: Bo Mannergren
Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen to cheerful music....
One on One
Character: Henrik
After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor man (Erland Josephson) out of his self-chosen solitude to accompany her on a trip. Despite developments which deepen their knowledge of one another, the communication between them does not portend long-lasting intimacy....
Open Doors
Character: Verner
Gina and Verner are two old persons living on the same floor of the apartment house. One day, a man comes and picks down all the apartment doors to replace them with new ones. For a full day, Gina and Verner can look into each other's lives. A short comedy about small secrets and what happens when you can no longer keep them secret....
Gustav III
Character: Liljensparre
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators....
Blomstrande tider
Character: Blomkvist
"Prosperous Times" - It is in the mid 70s. UN soldier Jussi, returns to his native village after a few years of absence, looks at the resort boredom and injustice with new eyes, but is not able to do anything....
Kvartetten som sprängdes
Character: Editor Bengt 'Cello' Erlandsson
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected....
Spielbank-Affäre
Character:
In a casino in a We'5t German health resort, one often sees Sybille - an attractive young student actress. With her winnings from the roulette table, she attempts to finance her studies. Despite a rather lucky streak, her winnings are a little on the lean side. She doesn't, however, gamble with her own money but with that of Dr. Busch, a lawyer, who likes to stay in the background with the argument that gambling houses are not the proper turf for a serious lawyer. From him, Sybille receives only...
The Marriage Wrestler
Character: Herr Pettersson-Rask
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros....
The Hedgehog's Tree
Character: (voice)
A father in prison writes letters to his children. Stories about animals, love and freedom....
Männen i mörker
Character: Åke Landberg
When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything....
The Adventures of Picasso
Character: Dr. Albert Schweizer
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s; Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill....
Swedenhielms
Character:
Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923....
Herre med portfölj
Character: Assessor
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife....
The Twelve Months of the Summer
Character: The Project Manager
Roger and Lars are family men who live a life as a traveling construction workers on large sites worldwide. They are offered a very generous contract they can't turn down. One-years work for a ten year salary. All they have to do is sign and honor the contract. But they don't know where they are going or what they are supposed to build. Blindfolded they are brought to a place with summer the year round. At this strange place they meet fellow workers. Together, they realize that there is somethin...
Du har blivit krigsman
Character: Skog
film about Swedish conscripts...