Sten Ljunggren
Birthday: Born in 1938-10-16 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Deathday: Alive
Sten Ivar Ljunggren (born October 16, 1938) is a Swedish character actor. He played Henrik in the long-running Swedish drama TV series Svenska hjärtan, which aired between 1987 and 1998. Other notable roles includes criminal inspector Lennart Thorin in the TV mini-series based on the Lasermannen events, the retired doctor Axel Holtman in Skärgårdsdoktorn, the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Swedish dub of Up, the voice of Sykes in the Swedish cinema dub of Oliver & Company, and the evil principal in Kenny Starfighter. He played the lead role as Birger in Lukas Moodysson's last short film Talk. The same character, with some modifications, was used again in Moodysson's Together. Ljunggren reprised the role.
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Oskyldigt dömd
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Oskyldigt dömd is a Swedish drama television series from 2008. The first season was recorded in twelve episodes during February 2008 to be aired later during the fall. It premiered on the Finnish TV channel FST5 on September 24, 2008 and later the same evening on Swedish TV4. The series is produced by Filmlance. On January 23 TV4 announced that Mikael Persbrandt would be playing the main character and on February 10 other cast members were announced; Helena af Sandeberg, Sofia Ledarp, Marie Rich...
Solsidan
Character: Claes Prytz
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....
Skärgårdsdoktorn
Character: Axel Holtman
TV series about the doctor Johan Steen who returns to Sweden after working in Somalia. He takes over his father in law's practice in the archipelago and together with his daughter Wilma, they try to make a new life for themselves....
Gynekologen i Askim
Character: Sture
Henning, a gynaecologist with a private practice in his own home in Askim (a semi-posh residential area of Gothenburg), has to deal with the most intimate problems of even his closest friends and neighbours. Henning's own sex life and relationships suffer in the process. Light-hearted comedy with dark streaks dealing with everything from coming out to getting back in....
Lasermannen
Character: Lennart Thorin
The series follows the events during the fall and winter of 1991–92, when John Ausonius shot a total of eleven people with an immigrant background. The series partly follows Ausonius during the execution of the crime, and partly the police's detective work. The series also provides an insight into Ausonius' earlier life, from high school age onwards....
Hassel
Character: Erwin Axell
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Der Kommissar und das Meer
Character: Gunnar Winarve
Der Kommissar und das Meer is a German television series....
Julkalendern
Character: Berättaren/Sören 2020
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Mor gifter sig
Character: Uncle Janne
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Stoft och skugga
Character: Günter
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Svenska tv-historier
Character: Sten Ljunggren
Factual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression....
Skulden
Character: Kommissarie Larsson
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Järnvägshotellet
Character: Filip Hammarén
A skeleton is discovered in a wall when an old railroad hotel is being renovated....
Lära för livet
Character:
Swedish school drama....
Våra vänners liv
Character: Claes
Pontus, Mats, Olle and David. Four friends in their 40s who are restarting their lives in different ways when they thought all the choices were made. The main roles are played by Gustaf Hammarsten, Shanti Roney, Erik Johansson and Jacob Ericksson....
Wallander
Character: Håkan von Enke
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered i...
Sparvöga
Character: Livet å Döden
It's the early 1950s and Sparvöga's father has lost his job and is suffering from tuberculosis. The whole family is forced to move back in with his parents but for Sparvöga this is the beginning of a great adventure....
Smash
Character: Wallner
Classic comedy about the lives of four very unsuccessful tennis players....
C/o Segemyhr
Character: Svärfar
c/o Segemyhr was a Swedish sitcom that premiered on TV4 Sweden on 4 September 1998. The series took place in and around an apartment in an exclusive neighbourhood in Stockholm, Artillerigatan 35 and later Styrmansgatan 52 in the same area. The series began with three seasons from fall 1998 to fall 1999, thereafter additionally two seasons were added in 2003–2004. All seasons have been released on DVD. Script writers were Fredrik Lindström och Erik Haag....
Barna Hedenhös uppfinner julen
Character: Statsminister Erland
The Hedenhös family time-travels and ends up in a museum in Stockholm in 2013. They explore the modern world and try to find a way to get back home....
Kenny Starfighter
Character: Rektorn
Kenny Starfighter fights against the evil lord Dr. Deo....
Frihetens skugga
Character: Thomas Gustafsson
A young man on the run after a stay in prison is chased through the Northern parts of Scandinavia for a murder he has not committed....
Strandvaskeren
Character: Paulus
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Ramona
Character: Tore Graan
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Svenska Hjärtan
Character: Henrik Wallin
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Den fjärde mannen
Character: Majoren
The year is 1975, and the West German embassy in Stockholm is occupied by German terrorists. It's an attack not only on the embassy, but on Sweden's long-standing pride as a peaceful nation. In the aftermath of the violent occupation, the Swedish Security Police suspects the six terrorists had help from the outside, possibly from a group of Swedish sympathizers. But no leads can be found until fourteen years later....
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Popular Music
Character: Grandfather
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila....
Together
Character: Birger
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives....
Sunday Roast
Character: Holger
Holger lives alone in his apartment. When 60 years younger Anna moves into the same stairwell, he invites her to a Sunday dinner. What first appears to be a nice dinner is gradually changing into something else. Sunday Roast is about mental disorders and revolves around the conflict between curiosity, obligation and danger....
Burn All My Letters
Character: Sven Stolpe (1988)
The film’s story revolves around Karin Stolpe’s complex relationship with her husband Sven Stolpe and her passionate love affair with Olof Lagercrantz which starts in the 1930s. It shows the impact of passion, jealousy and anger across 70 years, involving different generations....
The Health Journey
Character: Expedit
The film is about the health resort Granhedsgården in Dalarna, Sweden, and they have a problem. They don't have many guests at all and something must be done. At the same time, Stig-Helmer is a little depressed after his girlfriend has left him, and so he lives on junk food. His best friend Ole invites him to come along to the health resort Granhedsgården. Now, the craziness begins....
Gone with the Woman
Character: Oberst Kalle
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her....
Arne Meets Death
Character: Nyström
The year is 1995. It knocks on the door of 'Greedy Arne' Nyman's dilapidated house. It is Death who has come to take him. Greedy Arne is not worried of Death, he is more afraid of door-to-door sellers, but first he has something vital to deal with. It will be the beginning of a walk with Death by his side, which continues in an old rusty Volvo 240....
Lotta Leaves Home
Character: Farbror Blomgren
A feisty five-year-old girl Lotta decides to move away from home. And no, she doesn't want to put on the stupid sweater....
Suddenly
Character: Sven
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together....
The Chosen
Character: Göransson
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: Svante
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....
Hassel - Säkra papper
Character: Erwin Axell
A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is discovered that a large amount of counterfeit shares and bonds are in circulation. Hassel and his colleagues recognize that there are interests in the business community who are involved in the scandal, people who don't shy away from clearing away cumbersome barriers to safeguard their economic power....
The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever
Character: Fritz Mühlweiser
Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 million Swedish crowns in gold and diamonds to whoever can deliver the chip to the foreign investors. Who will grab hold of the chip, the Jönsson gang or Wall-Enberg?...
Four More Years
Character: Josef
The Swedish Liberal party leader David Holst is in crisis. Just recently, he was Sweden’s hottest politician. Stylish, funny, popular and the obvious candidate as the country’s next Prime Minister. Now, two years and a disappointing election defeat later, he finds himself in free fall. The voters have deserted him, the party is in uproar and he can hardly manage to get out of bed. It gets no better when he falls head over heels in love with party general secretary Martin, the last person on eart...
Young Jönsson Gang at Summer Camp
Character: Janitor
Eager to spend the summer at camp, the young Jönsson gang finds itself instead at a punitive, hardscrabble institution run by their archenemy....
Almost Elvis
Character: Guardian angel
Pirko lives in Gothenburg but gets kicked out of his pregnant girlfriend. He seeks his roots in northern Sweden. Pirko discovers karaoke....
Pistvakt
Character: Stor-Erik Marklund
Three middle aged brothers is living home in a Godforsaken skiing resort in the northernmost part of Sweden and sees their life change when their father dies, and the mother going off on a holiday to Spain....
To Steal a Thief
Character: Vicar
Roger is a failed petty criminal living in Stockholm who falls in love with the cute Susanna...
The Ninth Company
Character: Colonel Hellman
A few conscripts realise that the army has vast resources that don't get used as much as they could. Using army material, they start to do services for people in the neighbourhood. More and more money is exchanged, more and more people gets involved, but when will someone reveal the truth to someoney who they can't pay?...
The Temptation of St. Tony
Character: Herr Meister
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control of his life....
Swedes at Sea
Character: Didrik
The landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive at an archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the fancy rich boat people, their yachts and summer houses....
Peas & Whiskers
Character: Shop supervisor
Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?...
Somewhere Else
Character: Lennart
Alongside a tranquil road somewhere in Sweden live a number of people who are pretty much like people in general. When a highly improbable and catastrophic chain of events besets them, it leads to break up and change. A tragicomic story that feels both familiar and alien at the same time....
Fuck Up
Character: Rebeccas far
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you th...
Pillertrillaren
Character: Patient
David has just started working for a large pharmaceutical company and falls madly in love with a young and very beautiful colleague, Angelica....
Who Framed Harry Lund?
Character: Kent
Harry Lund is having a bad day. First he gets fired. And then loses his entire fortune at an illegal gambling club. On his way out, he is assaulted and drugged by unknown men, and wakes up in a car with another man. A very dead man. A very murdered man. And Harry's penknife sticks out of his body. Harry flees in panic to Stockholm. And now not only the bad guys are close on his heels - but also the police......
Deadly Drift
Character: Eriksson
A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse......
Zorn
Character: Richard Bergh
Swedish painter Anders Zorn gained notoriety for his nudes. His works are currently worth millions. The film is set in the time when Zorn, already respected for his art, was commissioned to paint a portrait of the Swedish king. Though an excellent painter, Zorn's personal life is dreadful. A boozer and a womanizer who frequently cheats on his wife, Zorn constantly seeks approval for his art. When he travels to the U.S. for a tour he meets Emilie Bartlett the wife of sculptor Paul W. Bartlett wit...
Us
Character: Mäklaren
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences....
Göta Canal 4: Win or Disappear
Character: Advokaten
When the owners of the boatyard are going to divorce, they can not decide who will get it. They agree to make the division of property through a competition on the Göta Canal, where the winner gets the boatyard....
Nobody Owns Me
Character: Grandfather
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden....
Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap
Character: Narrator (voice)
The pig Desmond and his friends are haunted by the terrible monster Träskpatraske. Granted, they are not sure he even exists, but who else could have snatched evil Wille's electric guitar, Sebastian Hare's boxing gloves and Bittan Cow's stock of makeup?...
Wallander: The Troubled Man
Character: Håkan von Enke
Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When Linda's father-in-law mysteriously disappears, Wallander is drawn into the case that takes him back in time to the Cold War and the submarine violations in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, he's starting to suspect that something is not right with him......
Harry & Sonja
Character: Walter
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja....
Ramona
Character: Tore Graan
The young code breaker Karnell works in the Swedish intelligence service during the Cold War. Having cracked a secret code he is drawn into a conspiracy that stretches throughout the Baltic Sea. It turns out that there is a leak codenamed Ramona within the organization and now they have to stop Ramona before it wrecks havoc....
Together 99
Character: Birger
A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's smallest. The commune consists of only two people - Göran and Klasse. Feeling a bit lonely, the idea occurs of a reunion with their old friends....
Utmaningen
Character: Tromben
A gunman has taken residency on an uninhabited island and a local man has to deescalate the situation without getting the police involved....
For Better and Worse
Character: Sven
A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances....
Greger Olsson köper en bil
Character: Walter
Greger Olsson and his wife are expecting their first child and she wants to buy a stroller, but Greger has other plans....
Ellinors bröllop
Character: Richard's Dad
Peter and his friend Göran are both students, aged 21. Eight years ago Peter had a girlfriend, Ellinor, whom he has not seen since. One day he gets an invitation to Ellinor's marriage. After a brief meeting Peter decides that he must use any means possible to stop Ellinor from marrying her boring yuppie boyfriend....
Dödspolare
Character: Bertil Ugglefors
A man wakes up in his apartment after a wild party. His best buddy comes by. They find a woman on the couch showing no signs of life....
Raymond - sju resor värre
Character: Olof, Raymond's Father
The story of Raymond Olsson, unemployed cook, 40-years-old and living with his mother....
Svensson, Svensson - The Movie
Character: Arthur
Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to move from his quiet little town of Vivalla, and especially his job as a very proud postman. After Lena started to commute between Stockholm and Vivalla, he decides to sell the house and give Stockholm a chance. He starts of with a job as a postman in one of Stockholm's worst districts, but after a mistake on a conference, Gustav seems to do quite a s...
While We Live
Character: Olof
Kandia, an African women in her fifties who has lived in Sweden for 30 years, decides to move back to Gambia. Her son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in hip hop and is about to make a breakthrough, goes with her. Their encounter with their homeland, however, doesn't turn out the way they imagined. A warm, broad drama comedy about a universal theme: identity....
2060
Character: Bläckan
2060 is an absurd, love story, a kind of prison drama in an elderly care home environment, set in a future dystopia. Upper-class woman Amanda is forced to move to a poorhouse and decides to take her own life. A film about realizing what's important in life before it's too late....
Kalabaliken i Bender
Character: Överste Grothusen
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercron...
A Kind of Hades
Character: Kalle
About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore....
Den byxlöse äventyraren
Character:
Lasse-Maja's (actually Lars Molin's) peculiar fate and adventure from his younger years until 1813, when he was sentenced to life imprisonment on Karlsten's fortress....
Teratologens återkomst
Character: Reader
"Assisted Living", by Nikanor Teratologen, originally released in Sweden 1992 as "Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen" immediately caused an uproar, due to the book's endless "Satanic" parade of rape, murder, sacrilege....
Talk
Character: Birger
Birger is old and retired from work, but he still goes back to work since he has nothing else to do. Back home he gets a rare visitor: a girl from Hare Krishna recruiting new members....
Som löven i Vallombrosa
Character: Gabriel
Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend....
Border
Character: Tina's Father
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind....
K-G for Better or for Worse
Character: Veterinary
K-G has lost his foothold in life. He has no energy, doesn't know what he wants, and cannot work anymore. His wife Birgitta doesn't understand him....
Fläskfarmen
Character: Egon
A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious foundation. They think it will be an easy and comfortable stay/cure to sober up and get fat. But they don't know what they are getting themselves into. The staff at the foundation are very eager to treat the newcomers....
One Way Ticket
Character: Alex
Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pressure to pay and agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition onboard a cruise ship....
The Best View
Character: Tord
Recently retired Tord have had enough. He is convinced that there is no love in our society anymore. No solidarity. He decides to gas himself to death a day when his wife, as usual, goes to work without even saying goodbye. However everything changes when Tord finds out about the new neighbor....
The Girl in the Mist
Character:
Sima, a ten-year-old immigrant girl, is on her way home from school. In the thick fog she comes across an injured postman, who desperately wants her to help him. The girl goes for help in a village she has never before been to......
Susanne Goes Single
Character:
Susanne happens to drive over her husband on a camping site. This is the start of a very intensive day where she gets perspective over her life. A black comedy with much depth and a woman who bears a little too much....
Rosenbaum - Målbrott
Character: Erik Feldt
One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty....
Husbonden
Character: Sailor
Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His master is a pirate who, together with his two daughters, live on killing shipwrecked sailors and stealing their cargo. Eventually, Charlie begins to question the correctness of his master living....
Lyftet
Character:
Kennet, an incompetent thief and incorrigible petty criminal, longs to even 'the score,' which is not in his favor....
Awaiting Death
Character: The father
A man arrives at the hospital to see his father on his deathbed. He would like to have a last good time with him, but the father worries above all about knowing what to do with two jars of mustard that have been started....
Bänken
Character: Erik
A gentleman joins two alcoholics on a bench....
Beck 06 - The Monster
Character: Anita pappa
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is found inside. Soon, e-mails are sent out to every newspaper about the nasty situation that the police had tried to keep secret. Will the police ever overcome the "Monster"?...
Playing with Fire
Character:
Actor and director Ulf Friberg has filmed August Strindberg's play "Leka med elden". Or at least almost. The story of a middle-aged couple and their summer guests slides almost unnoticed into the story of the relationship between the actors and the director. The result is an airy, summery metafilm of both classic and innovative cuts....
The Disappearance of Finbar
Character: Finn Bar barman
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts....
Högläsning av Röde Orm
Character: Self
Directly from Borgeby Castle in Skåne, the fast-paced story Röde Orm is told by Frans G. Bengtsson. Among others, Sten Ljunggren, Angela Kovacs and Martin E-type Eriksson read the humorous story about the young Viking's travels out into the world....
Kronprinsen och tyrannens återkomst
Character: Läromästaren
In the small kingdom, snow is falling from a bright sky and the whole town is getting ready for the big winter wedding between Queen Lovisa and the fool Amir. Then, suddenly, the old tyrant's mother Amalia appears with her soldiers in tow. She is determined that the throne will return to her own family. The young crown prince Ville will now become king, just as he always dreamed of. But is he really up to the task - and what are his grandmother's motives?...