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Ingvar Hirdwall

Ingvar Hirdwall

Acting

Biography

Ingvar Hirdwall (December 5, 1934 – April 6, 2023) was born in Stockholm, and was educated at Gothenburg City Theatre stage school 1957-1960. Since the early 1960s until his death he has been active as an actor in many films, TV series and on theatrical stages, mainly Stockholms stadsteater. He is well known in Sweden, was often portraying obstinate or strange characters, like the eccentric neighbor in the many Swedish Martin Beck TV-movies made from 1997 on. He was also often in director Lars Molin's productions. In December 1993, Hirdwall played the leading role in the Swedish TV company SVT's annual children's Christmas “Advent calendar” - Tomtemaskinen (The mechanical santa), one of the Pettson and Findus stories by Sven Nordqvist - with one 15-minute part shown each day up until Christmas Eve. Hirdwall played the character of Pettson. Hirdwall received the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Actor at the 17th Guldbagge Awards for Barnens ö (Children's Island) and the Thaliapriset prize in 1993. Hirdwall was married to the actress Marika Lindström. They have two children, director Jacob Hirdwall and actress Agnes Hirdwall.

Known For

Wallander
6.9

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 in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

Wallander

2005
Beck
6.8

Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.

Beck

1999
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7.5

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

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009
Julkalendern
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960
The Guldbagge Awards
5.5

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

The Guldbagge Awards

1981
Millennium
7.6

Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is drawn into an endlessly dark world, with enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander his only guide.

Millennium

2010
Skärgårdsdoktorn
7.5

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.

Skärgårdsdoktorn

1997
Children's Island
6.3

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.

Children's Island

1980
Beck 11 - The Cartel
5.6

It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.

Beck 11 - The Cartel

2001
Kvällspressen
7.5

The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm.

Kvällspressen

1992
1939
4.9

When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1939

1989
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5.2

A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.

August Strindberg: A Life

1985
Godnatt, jord
7.0

Depicts "Statarna", the Swedish agricultural proletarians, set during the early 1900s. An institutionalized brutality of oppression and poverty surrounded by a beautiful and silent countryside.

Godnatt, jord

1979
Svenska noveller
N/A

No description available.

Svenska noveller

1978
Kejsarn av Portugallien
7.0

A Swedish farmer gets crazy and imagines that his daughter has become emperor of Portugallien and he himself emperor.

Kejsarn av Portugallien

1992
Korset
10.0

Birger and Eivor's daughter is buried after having died from a heroin overdose. Birger reacts violently. Soon known drug profiles are being found crucified on the doors to the institutions of society

Korset

1985
Ondskans år
9.0

Spring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year old Ragnar grows up in a home where the parents look forward to a Nazi power takeover in Sweden. At his grandmother, Ragnar meets other thoughts and opinions than at home. Karl Gerhard entertains on the radio. As well as Zarah Leander. It's a chaotic and contradictory time for a boy. Ragnar's Nazi parents still hope for a Nazi-German victory in the war.

Ondskans år

1987
Tre kärlekar
9.0

No description available.

Tre kärlekar

1989
Babels hus
7.3

No description available.

Babels hus

1981
Beck 35 - Your Own Blood
5.0

A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home from work. These two events will prove to be related. Since Martin Beck has quit, Steinar Hovland leads the search for the missing girl. But Martin is drawn into the case when he decides to help the national Security Police investigate a suspected terrorist. They soon realize that they are in a race against time to stop a catastrophe.

Beck 35 - Your Own Blood

2018