Acting

Björn Skifs

Born

1947-04-20 (79)

Place of birth

Vansbro, Dalarnas län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

IMDb profile

Björn Nils Olof Skifs is a Swedish singer, songwriter, actor, and screenwriter. Born: April 20, 1947, Vansbro Music groups: Blue Swede (1973 – 1975), Slam Creepers, Zkiffz

Known for

7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

6.2

Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".

Melodifestivalen

1959

6.7

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

På spåret

1987

6.3

Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.

Så ska det låta

1997

No synopsis available yet.

Hellenius Hörna

2010

6.2

Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired in 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish, TVP2, version called Dubidu - show host Piotr Gasowski - and an Australian version that goes by You may be right, hosted by Todd McKenney The Swedish version of the show is hosted by entertainment personality Lasse Kronér.

Doobidoo

2005

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

6.7

Wrongfully convicted of murder, a clumsy electronics salesman faces police corruption and criminal conspiracies in an attempt to prove his innocence.

Trouble

2024

Every year the Swedish entertainment industry is taken over for weeks by a single television show trying to find Sweden's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen has grown into a center around which a large portion of the Swedish music industry revolves and is financed by. Is it really reasonable that so much power is wielded by a single production?

Mellons makt

2024

Nightclub queen Alexandra Charles became nationally famous in the 1960s through the club Alexandra’s, which fundamentally transformed Stockholm’s nightlife. In later decades, her commitment to women’s health became a new calling in life. Today, she is herself losing her eyesight. At the same time, Alexandra is seeking recognition for her work, and for the first time she shares who she has always been at her core.

Alexandra - syns vi inte finns vi inte

2025

Måns Zelmerlöw, Fröken Snusk and Orup, together with more music profiles, explore why certain songs and genres become timeless and what it takes to create the perfect hit song.

Hellenius hörna hyllar musik

2025

Celebratory TV special for the 100th birthday of Swedish entertainer Povel Ramel with performances by many people who stood on stage with him

Povel Ramel 100 år

2022

After ABBA won Eurovision in 1974 Sweden was tasked with hosting it the next year. This documentary tells the story of that production and places it in the social and political context of Sweden in 1975 and a music scene that was anything but supportive of the endeavour.

Det svenska schlagerkriget

2024

5.0

This is the year when the Vietnam War ends and terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm. On TV, Staffan Westerberg's "Vilse i Pannkakan" coincides with Ingmar Bergman's "The Magic Flute". Despite the cold war, the USA and the Soviet Union take the opportunity to meet - in space! And Davis Cup tennis is played in Båstad. Sweden meets Chile and the police fear riots. This and much more in "The year was 1975" by Jonas Fohlin and Eva Tillberg.

Året var 1975

2024

It has been 50 years since ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo. But of all who celebrated there on the stage in Brighton, perhaps the biggest rock star of them all wasn't even in the band, but was instead a gentleman in a suit and mustache: Stikkan Anderson.

Stikkan

2024

No synopsis available yet.

Jul med Björn Skifs

2022

2010s · 3 titles

Documentary on the Swedish rocktour and concert Badrock.

The Film About Badrock

2017

In the last year of the 60s, history gets the chance to breathe a little after the turbulent 1968. Pippi Longstocking rides into the television sets and the writers demonstrate for more compensation. There is also a space race - where both the Soviet Union and the USA send up their rockets. Towards the end of the year, Sweden finally gets its second TV channel, TV2.

Året var 1969

2019

5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Skifs vs Körberg

2017

1990s · 3 titles

5.2

Göran buys a house in a suburb. It is in need of some repairs, but Göran believes himself capable of repairing it himself with the help of some cheap craftsmen. However, the house is much worse than he thought. At the same time, a gang of crooks is searching for the dynamite they hid in the basement some time ago. Göran has to rescue both his wallet from greedy craftsmen as well as his marriage with Tina.

The Dream House

1993

5.8

Nicke loves practical jokes. When his best friend Pelle is getting married, Nicke is hosting the bachelor party. It will start with the kidnapping of Pelle. Everything goes wrong when Pelle is kidnapped for real by a terrorist group.

Joker

1991

...och över alltihopa lyser Povel Ramel poster

5.0

A congratulatory celebration of Povel Ramel's 70th birthday featuring a cavalcade of great Swedish performers.

...och över alltihopa lyser Povel Ramel

1992

1980s · 11 titles

5.8

Conny is a chemistry teacher who is framed for drug possession. Unable to prove his innocence he ends up in prison. When he finds a secret exit some inmates "persuade" him to participate in a heist. Things become extremely hectic as he tries to prove his innocence as well as "helping" his inmates. When Conny thinks that it couldn't possibly get any worse he meets Susanne, a policewoman...

Framed

1988

Privatdeckarna: Uppdrag Gran Canaria poster

7.0

At the Falk Detective Agency every assignment is taken seriously.

Privatdeckarna: Uppdrag Gran Canaria

1984

A documentary about the recording of the CHESS concept album by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

Magasinet Special: Chess 1984

1984

3.2

This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.

Sverige åt svenskarna

1980

The TV recording of Björn Skifs’s acclaimed 1986 show at Hamburger Börs captures an artist in complete command of the stage. With humor, musical precision, and infectious energy, Skifs moves seamlessly between pop, soul, rock, and sophisticated cabaret. Backed by dancers, vocalists, and a tight live band, he creates a vibrant sequence of performances infused with the glamour of the 1980s. The result is a lively snapshot of the era and a powerful record of one of Sweden’s most versatile entertainers connecting with an enthusiastic audience.

Björn Skifs - På Hamburg Börs

1986

5.8

A comedy about taxi driver Bengt, who finds himself in trouble when he is unable to repay a loan to loan shark Kurt. At the same time, researcher Johan receives an urgent assignment from his professor, which is complicated by the fact that he unexpectedly has to take care of Bengt's daughter Pia. Their lives become intertwined in a series of comical and dramatic events that take place in the same apartment building.

Saddled With a Girl

1982

8.0

A music video compilation from the musical Chess.

Chess Moves

1985

Stage revue with Björn Skifs.

Skifs på Börsen

1986

5.8

It's the early 20s, just after World War I. In Sweden, restrictions on alcohol are harder than most people like and so, smuggling is abundant. In this particular little town, smuggling is ruled by one man, who is the king of smugglers. The smugglers who work for him don't get to keep much of the profit themselves, but if they don't work for him, they get in trouble, which his henchmen make sure. However, Albert Jansson arrives in town and starts taking up the competition with the smuggler king. Meanwhile, the police, together the customs office, try to catch the smugglers.

The Smuggler King

1985

Prima Veras saga om Olav den Hellige poster

5.5

The film describes Olav life from his birth to his death at the Battle of Stiklestad in year 1030. All central place names and people 's actual , but otherwise there happens not fully consistent with the history book. An informal version of the saga of St. Olaf .

Prima Veras saga om Olav den Hellige

1983

A programme by Olle Häger and Hans Villius, featuring images from the days of King Gustav III and Carl Michael Bellman. The programme was broadcast as an introduction to the series 'Sammansvärjningen' and provides a historical background to the dramatic events that took place in Stockholm in the winter of 1792, when Gustav III was assassinated. Björn Skifs offers his own very special interpretation of Carl Michael Bellman.

Innan skottet föll

1986

1970s · 4 titles

7.0

Running order of guests: 1. ABBA - Intermezzo No.1 (opening credits) 2. ABBA - Mamma Mia 3. Merit Hemmingson 4. Sylvia Vrethammar 5. ABBA - I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do 6. Björn Skifs 7. Lill Lindfors 8. ABBA - So Long 9. ABBA - Intermezzo No.1 (closing credits)

Made in Sweden - for export

1975

No artwork available

Short film commissioned by the Swedish Association of Civil Engineers.

Vad händer…?

1979

No artwork available

10.0

The evil stepmother forbids Snow White to sing. Snow White ends up with a pop band called the Seven Dwarfs.

Snövit och de sju små dvärgarna

1973

Fata Morgana - a mirage, a vision that's become a film. A fantastical space journey through technical spheres.

Fata Morgana

1979