Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö (born 29 May 1932) is a Swedish stage and film actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and father to Jonas Malmsjö.

Biography[link]

Malmsjö was born in Lund, Sweden. He trained at the prestigious Dramatens elevskola (The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school) during 1950-53 and one of his first parts on the national stage was as Paris in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1953).

Malmsjö has a great range as an actor from the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet (Dramaten, 1974) and Reverent Manders in Ibsen's Ghosts to Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady and leading roles in other musicals such as La Cage aux Folles and Victor/Victoria. He has also cut several music records in his native Sweden. In the musical world, his Swedish language recording of "Willkommen"; Välkomna till Cabaret (from Malmö City Theatre's successful production of Cabaret 1970; where Malmsjö played the part of Emcee) is considered a masterpiece and treasure on CD.

He has filmed sporadically: one of his most famous film parts is as the evil Bishop Edvard Vergérus in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (1982). One of his more recent stage parts was as The Captain in Strindberg's The Dance of Death in the 1993 Dramaten-production, directed by Lars Norén (adapted for TV in 1996).

He also voiced Lumiere in the Swedish dub of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

Malmsjö is still as active as ever and could last be spotted on stage in the title role of John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, spring/autumn 2006.

Jan Malmsjö is married to actress and colleague of the Royal Dramatic Theatre; Marie Göranzon. His son, Jonas Malmsjö, is also an actor (and acted opposite his father in Ingmar Bergman's staging of The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg, in 2000).

In December, 2007, Malmsjö participated in the Swedish reality show "Stjärnorna på slottet" along with Peter Stormare, Arja Saijonmaa, Britt Ekland and Magnus Härenstam.

Selected filmography[link]

• 1959 - Den inbillade sjuke (aka The Imaginary Invalid) (TV theatre)
• 1959 - Pojken Winslow (aka The Winslow Boy) (TV theatre)
• 1960 - Tärningen är kastad
• 1960 - Mälarpirater (aka, Pirates on the Malonen)
• 1962 - Vita frun (aka, Lady in White)
• 1964 - Älskande par (aka, Loving Couples)
• 1966 - Torn Curtain (uncredited as the Swedish reporter in final scene of this Hitchcock movie)
• 1973 - Scenes from a Marriage
• 1975 - Släpp fångarne loss, det är vår!
• 1980 - Marmalade Revolution
• 1982 - Fanny and Alexander
• 1986 - Peter the Great (mini series)
• 1986 - Kulla-Gulla (mini series)
• 1987 - Jim & piraterna Blom (aka Jim and the Pirates)
• 1993 - Drömkåken (aka The Dream House)
• 1996 - Dödsdansen (The Dance of Death) (TV-theatre, SVT)
• 1998 - Den tatuerade änkan (TV)
• 2006 - Wellkåmm to Verona
• 2006 - Beck – Den japanska shungamålningen

Photographs[link]

• Jan Malmsjö as Hummel in Strindberg's "Ghost Sonata", directed by Ingmar Bergman (2000; left Gunnel Lindblom as The Mummy)
• Jan Malmsjö in the 1970s
• Jan Malmsjö - 2001 portrait
• Jan Malmsjö as Manders in "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen (left: Pernilla August as Mrs. Alving)
• Photo from Dramaten.se

External links[link]

• Jan Malmsjö at the Internet Movie Database
• Jan Malmsjö at the Swedish Film Database

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Isa Quensel
Quensel in a publicity photo
Born	21 September 1905
Died	3 November 1981
Nationality	Swedish

Isa Quensel (21 September 1905 - 3 November 1981) was a Swedish actress and operatic soprano who appeared in over 50 films, plays, operas, TV and radio shows. In 1939 she created the title role in the world premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die Kathrin at the Royal Swedish Opera.

Selected filmography[link]

• The Phantom Carriage (1958)
• Two Living, One Dead (1961)
• The Sword in the Stone (1961)- voice of Madam Mim in the Swedish version

External links[link]

• Find a grave

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Erland Josephson
Josephson as newly appointed director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1965
Born	(1923-06-15)15 June 1923 Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Died	25 February 2012(2012-02-25) (aged 88) Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Occupation	Actor, author
Years active	1946–2006

Erland Josephson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈæːɭand ˈʝuːsɛfsɔn]; 15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author.^[1] He was best known to international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos.

Biography[link]

Josephson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm from 1966 to 1975.^[1] He has also has published novels, short stories, poetry and drama, and was director of several films. In 1980, he directed and starred in the film Marmalade Revolution, which was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] Josephson died in 2012 after suffering from Parkinson's disease.^[3][4]

Filmography[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Cirkel (1946)
• Spegeln och en portvakt (1946)
• Spel med bedrövade artister (1947)
• Ensam och fri (1948)
• Lyssnarpost (1949)
• De vuxna barnen (1952)
• Sällskapslek (1956)
• En berättelse om herr Silberstein (1957)
• Kungen ur leken (1960)
• Benjamin : Generalskan (1963)
• Doktor Meyers sista dagar och Kandidat Nilssons första natt (1964)
• Loppans kvällsvard (1986)
• Konrad på teatern (1987)
• Kameleonterna (1987)
• Färgen : den borgerliga kulturens envisa överlevande (1988)
• Peter åker traktor (1989)
• Rollen : antecknat på turné med Körsbärsträdgården 24/2 - 15/5 1989 (1989)
• Sanningslekar (1990)
• Konrad på gubbdagis : en bilderbok för vuxna (1991)
• Föreställningar (1991)
• Konrad tar semester : en bilderbok för omogna (1993)
• Självporträtt : en egocentrisk dialog (1993)
• Sanningslekar (1994)
• Gubbröra (1994)
• Vita sanningar (1995)
• Svarslös (1996)
• Stockholms Själ (1999)
• Kunskapens scen : ett urval texter (2007)
• Reskamrater : berättelser i all korthet (2009)
• En natt i den svenska sommaren (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Erland Josephson at the Internet Movie Database
• Erland Josephson at the Swedish Film Database
• "Josephson, Erland". Ett Binds Leksikon (3 ed.). 1990. 

Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare, 2008
Born	Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (1953-08-27) 27 August 1953 (age 58) Kumla, Sweden
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Karen Sillas (divorced) Toshimi Stormare

 Peter Stormare (help·info) (born 27 August 1953) is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor, as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician.

Early life[link]

Stormare was born in Kumla, Närke, Sweden.^[1] He grew up in Arbrå, Hälsingland, originally named Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm. He changed his surname when he discovered he shared it with a senior student at the acting academy. His original choice of name, Retep Mrots (his own name spelled backwards), was rejected.^{[citation needed]} Just like "storm" (a word which has the same meaning in Swedish and English), "stormare" is a Swedish word, meaning "stormer".

Career[link]

Stormare began his career with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, to which he belonged for eleven years. In 1990, he took a leading position (Associate Artistic Director) at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and made a name for himself through various Shakespeare performances including Hamlet. Three years later, he moved to New York City and mainly took part there in English language productions. He played Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish secret agent similar to James Bond. He was discovered by international audiences for his critically acclaimed role as one of the kidnappers (with Steve Buscemi) in Fargo (1996). He later played a sleazy, unlicensed "eye-doctor" named Solomon Eddie in Minority Report. He portrayed Dieter Stark in the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

In 1998, he appeared in "The Frogger", a Seinfeld episode where he played a "rogue electrician" known as "Slippery Pete". He portrayed Uli Kunkel in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski, as well as playing Lev Andropov, the Russian Cosmonaut in 1998's Armageddon, and Alexei in the 2003 film Bad Boys II. In 2003, Stormare played the role of Ernst Rohm in Hitler: The Rise of Evil. In the 2005 film Constantine, Stormare played Lucifer. He played an interrogator in the 2005 movie The Brothers Grimm. His first major character in television was on the show Prison Break in 2005, where he played mob boss John Abruzzi. Stormare was originally cast for the role of Fido, but upon being cast in Prison Break, he opted out of the film.

He voiced "Mattias Nilsson" in the video games Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, the voice of Isair in the computer game Icewind Dale 2, and the voice of Johann Strauss in Quake 4. In February 2006, he starred as Wolfgang in Volkswagen's VDub series of television commercials.

Stormare played the main character in the movie Svartvattnet, which was filmed in Sweden and Norway during 2007.^[2] Stormare was also offered a role in the ABC television series Lost for a period of one year,^[3] which he later declined.^[4] In the 2007 film Premonition he played the character Dr Roth. In April 2007, he appeared in an episode of crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "Ending Happy".

In December 2007, Stormare participated in the Swedish reality show "Stjärnorna på slottet" along with Britt Ekland, Arja Saijonmaa, Jan Malmsjö and Magnus Härenstam. He appears in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 as Dr. Zelinsky, a Russian scientist who builds a time machine. He runs his own record label, StormVox.^{[citation needed]} He starred as Walter in the Canadian independent crime thriller Small Town Murder Songs (2010). He appeared in the music video of the song "Uprising" by the Swedish power metal band Sabaton.^[5] He plays himself in the 2011 Norwegian comedy Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen, and appeared as a psychiatrist in the Swedish horror film Marianne (2011).

Personal life[link]

Stormare divides his time between the United States and Sweden.^[6] He is divorced from his first wife, actress Karen Sillas, with whom he has a daughter, Kelly, and is currently married to Toshimi, a native of Japan.^[6]

After Bono of U2 heard some of Stormare's music, he encouraged him to make an album. In 2002, Stormare released his first album, Dallerpölsa och småfåglar. Stormare is the godfather of Gustaf Skarsgård, the son of equally-acclaimed Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, and plays in a band called Blonde From Fargo. While working on a Disney film in Prague, Stormare was introduced to Bob Dylan after the concert by bassist Tony Garnier.

American performance poet Hedwig Gorski with Peter Stormare in Prague, Czech Republic at Bob Dylan's concert backstage in October 2003.

Peter Stormare is a Christian, and claims he has had contact with God.^[6][7] When he was little, he participated in the Baptist meetings in Arbrå.^[7][8] He has a strong spiritual side, inherited by his mother who was a medium, she in turn inherited this from her father.^[7][8] Shortly after the death of Ingmar Bergman, he saw a bird outside his window in whose eyes Ingmar lived.^[7][8]

Filmography[link]

Series[link]

Films[link]

Video games[link]

Music[link]

• "Uprising" (music video) by Sabaton

Discography[link]

• Dallerpölsa och småfåglar (2002)
• Swänska hwisor vol 1 (2004)
• Lebowski-Fest 2005 (2005)
• Seven Seas Track on The Poodles CD Sweet Trade (2007)

See also[link]

• List of Swedish actors

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Peter Stormare

• Peter Stormare at the Internet Movie Database
• Unofficial website for Peter Stormare
• Uli Kunkle Edition Lebowski Podcast tribute to Stormare's character in The Big Lebowski.
• "Un-pimp Your Auto" Commercials on Google video
• Peter Stormare's band

Peter Alexander Haber (born December 12, 1952 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor. He grew up in Södertälje and in Remscheid, Germany. In 1987 he was hired by the Stockholm City Theatre where he was active until 1994.^[1]

The most famous roles that Haber has played are the father Rudolf in the series Sune, Carl Hamilton in Fiendens fiende (Enemy's Enemy) and Martin Beck from 1997–2010. Haber has been married since 1990 to the actor Lena T. Hansson.

Selected filmography[link]

• 1990: Fiendens fiende (My Enemy's Enemy)
• 1991: Sunes jul
• 1992: Jönssonligan och den svarta diamanten (The Johnson-gang and the black diamond)
• 1993: Sunes sommar
• 1994: Jönssonligans största kupp (The Johnson-gang's greatest robbery)
• 1995: Vita lögner (White Lies) (TV-series)
• 1997: Beck – Lockpojken (The Bait Boy)
• 1997: Beck – Mannen med ikonerna (The Man With The Icons)
• 1997: Beck – Vita nätter (White Nights)
• 1998: Beck – Öga för öga (Eye For An Eye)
• 1998: Beck – Pensionat Pärlan (The Boarding House Pearl)
• 1998: Beck – Monstret (The Monster)
• 1998: Beck – The Money Man
• 1998: Beck – Spår i mörker (Trails In The Dark)
• 1999: Tomten är far till alla barnen (Santa is the father of all the children)
• 1999: Vägen ut (The Way Out)
• 2001: Beck – Hämndens pris (The Price Of Vengeance)
• 2001: Beck – Mannen utan ansikte (The Man Without A Face)
• 2001: Beck – Kartellen (The Cartel)
• 2002: Shrek (Swedish voice for Lord Farquaad)
• 2002: Beck – Enslingen (The Loner)
• 2002: Beck – Annonsmannen (The Advertising Man)
• 2002: Beck – Okänd avsändare (Sender: Unknown)
• 2002: Beck – Pojken i glaskulan (The Boy In The Glass Ball)
• 2002: Beck – Sista vittnet (The Last Witness)
• 2004: Hotet (The Threat)
• 2006: Beck – Skarpt läge (Sharp Position)
• 2006: Beck – Flickan i jordkällaren (The Girl In The Basement)
• 2007: Beck – Gamen (The Vulture)
• 2006: Beck – Advokaten (The Lawyer)
• 2007: Beck – Den japanska shungamålningen (The Japanese Shunga Painting)
• 2007: Beck – Den svaga länken (The Weak Link)
• 2007: Beck – Det tysta skriket (The Silent Scream)
• 2007: Beck – I Guds namn (In God's Name)
• 2009: Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women)
• 2009: Beck – I stormens öga (In The Eye Of The Storm)
• 2009: Beck – Levande begravd (Buried Alive)
• 2009: Crashpoint - 90 Minuten bis zum Absturz, Germany

References[link]

• "Peter Haber" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-film/Filmdatabasen/?type=PERSON&itemid=169764. Retrieved 2010-01-25. 

External links[link]

• Peter Haber at the Internet Movie Database