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Stig Olin (born 11 September 1920 in Stockholm – dead 28 June 2008 (aged 87)) was a Swedish actor, theatre director, songwriter and singer. He is father to the actress Lena Olin and the Swedish singer Mats Olin. He has been married to Britta Holmberg and Helena Kallenbäck.
Olin had a successful acting career when he acted in leading parts in a number of early Ingmar Bergman films, including Torment/Frenzy (Swedish: Hets) (1944; Bergman's script debut), Crisis (1946), Kvinna utan ansikte (Woman Without a Face) (1947; script by Bergman), Port of Call (1948), Eva (1948; script by Bergman), Prison (1949), To Joy (1950), Summer Interlude (1951) and Divorced (1951; script by Bergman).
Successful film parts also include his love-struck student in Sickan Carlsson-film Klasskamrater (Class Mates; 1952), Ernst in his own directed popular children's film Rasmus, Pontus och Toker (1956) and the scrubby old Potato-Algot in Jim och piraterna Blom (Jim and the Blom Pirates; 1987), directed by Hans Alfredson (from Hasseåtage).