Olof Thunberg

Acting

Olof Thunberg

Born — Died

1925-05-21 — 2020-02-24

Place of birth

Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Fritz-Olof Thunberg was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1953. He appeared in a variety of films, often in a supporting role as a confident charmer, and is the voice of both Bamse and Agaton Sax in children's films and recordings.

Known for

Tre kronor poster
5.6

Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of Rederiet. The signature tune was written by Lasse Holm. The spin-off movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen! was based on two of the characters; Reine and Mimmi. The series had a dramatic ending where all the characters besides six were fatally wounded in a suicide bombing that took place at the local restaurant Tre Kronor. It was a priest himself who was the perpetrator. Two big cliffhangers in the series was when Hans Wästberg, played by Ulf Brunnberg, robbed the post office and shot his son Hans-Åke by mistake. Hans Wästberg was taken to prison and disappeared from the series after the second season. Season Three ended with Sirpa "Bimbo" Koskinen, the girlfriend of Hans-Åke Wästberg, died in a bus crash. Salongo played by Richard Sseruwagi was a refugee and a rich business man from Uganda who fell in love with a married police woman Lena Sjökvist played by Catharine Hansson and he later bought the restaurant Tre Kronor. Later in the series, Salongo buys another restaurant and he to disappeares from the series.

Tre kronor

1994

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

Sunes jul poster
7.5

Sune, an 11 year old boy struggles with girl troubles and school while he and his goofy family prepares for Christmas with failed attempts at all of the usual December traditions.

Sunes jul

1991

Sjukan poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sjukan

1995

Bamse poster
6.8

The world's strongest (and kindest) bear.

Bamse

1966

I Am Greta poster
5.9

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.

I Am Greta

2020

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

Young Jönsson Gang Showing Off poster
4.6

When their circus tickets get swiped, the Jönsson League boys hatch a plan to steal them back, but end up suspects in an even bigger crime!

Young Jönsson Gang Showing Off

1997

Young Jönsson Gang: The Cornflakes Robbery poster
5.0

The young Jönsson gang's plan to steal "millions of filmisar" faces problem after problem before uncovering something much greater.

Young Jönsson Gang: The Cornflakes Robbery

1996

Jeppe på berget poster
10.0

A Swedish version of Jeppe on the Hill. Jeppe is a drunken peasant. The Baron and his men play a joke on him.

Jeppe på berget

1995

Bamse i Trollskogen poster
6.0

Bamse is a good-hearted bear whose grandmother cooks a special kind of honey, that gives him superpowers. When someone starts transforming the bear's friends into balloons and other things, Bamse and his friends Skalman (a turtle) and Lille Skutt (a rabbit) must journey through the woods to stop this person.

Bamse i Trollskogen

1991

Monopol poster
5.7

Egil (Knut Agnred) is just an ordinary painter. But one day, when he's about to paint a fence, incredible stuff starts to happen!

Monopol

1996

Allis med is poster
6.0

Allis and Ann are best friends. But one day, when the girls are about twelve years old, Ann is killed in a road accident, and Allis becomes very cold inside and doesn't want any new friends. Her parents start working abroad and therefore, she has to live with her grandparents (who are the landlord and landlady of a big house) and begin going to a new school, where everybody teases her, because she is so odd and doesn't want to make friends with anyone. There is also another odd person who is teased in the class, Sigge, who is a Polish immigrant. When a bird gets hurt and Sigge takes care of it, Allis wants to help him somewhat. And after she let Sigge into the big house where she lives, nothing becomes the same and things start to happen, both in the house and in Allis's heart.

Allis med is

1993

1980s · 5 titles

Bamse and the Two Horse Rides poster
6.0

Bamse saves a little donkey from a nasty man. Together with his friends he builds a stable for it.

Bamse and the Two Horse Rides

1981

Sverige åt svenskarna poster
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

Amorosa poster
5.6

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Amorosa

1986

SOPOR poster
5.5

One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.

SOPOR

1981

Genombrottet poster
8.5

Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme.

Genombrottet

1981

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 15 titles

Winter Light poster
7.9

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

Winter Light

1963

Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr poster
8.0

The White Rose (Kalle, Eva-Lotta and Anders) and the Red Rose (Sixten, Benka and Jonte) gangs are battling for a magical stone. The rest of the time Kalle is bored. That is why Kalle and his friends play pranks on Kalles aunts Hilda and Hulda. While Hulda is laughing, Hilda is very angry and calls the police, but Kalle is able to escape. Only a few time later Hilda is kidnapped and the kidnappers want a lot of money. The gangs of the White and Red Rose are now working together to find the kidnappers.

Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr

1966

Pärlemor poster
8.0

Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.

Pärlemor

1961

När seklet var ungt poster
NR

Sweden during the years 1897-1914 comes to life through newsreels and scenes from early feature films.

När seklet var ungt

1961

No artwork available
NR

Comedy by William Congrevé. A spiritual and rather mean picture of the noble life in London around 1700.

Så går det till här i världen

1968

Det är hos mig han har varit poster
3.0

"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.

Det är hos mig han har varit

1963

Adam och Eva poster
7.0

Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous.

Adam och Eva

1963

Prins hatt under jorden poster
9.0

A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Margot and becomes her lover. Margot, however, is not alone in recruiting Erik: even the young Li is interested in him.

Prins hatt under jorden

1963

Pygmalion poster
9.0

Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?

Pygmalion

1968

The Bed poster
NR

A causerie about the bed's history with a mixture of recorded sections and classical music.

The Bed

1965

The Die Is Cast poster
6.1

A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?

The Die Is Cast

1960

The Marriage Wrestler poster
5.5

Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.

The Marriage Wrestler

1964

Villervalle i Söderhavet poster
10.0

Dr. Ernst Botman, a UNESCO nutrition specialist is sent to the islands of French Polynesia to investigate suspected cases of starvation. His family, including his wife, elderly mother and teenages Villervalle and Lenalisa, insists on coming along. Thus, they embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Feature film cut of the 1963 TV series of the same name.

Villervalle i Söderhavet

1968

No artwork available
NR

The first play in a trilogy by Arnold Wesker. The Hungarian-Jewish immigrant Sarah Kahn firmly holds her family in London's East End. She is also the center of power for the socialist engagement of the family, which is being tested by the events of Eastern Europe after the war.

Hönssoppa med korngryn

1968

Sommar och syndare poster
9.0

Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.

Sommar och syndare

1960

1950s · 15 titles

Private Entrance poster
4.1

A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.

Private Entrance

1956

I dur och skur poster
5.2

"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.

I dur och skur

1953

Barabbas poster
6.6

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Barabbas

1953

Miss Chic poster
4.7

Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.

Miss Chic

1959

The Minister of Uddarbo poster
8.0

A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.

The Minister of Uddarbo

1957

Resan till dej poster
7.0

The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.

Resan till dej

1953

The Halo Is Slipping poster
4.9

A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Halo Is Slipping

1957

No artwork available
8.0

Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.

Vingslag i natten

1953

Lejon på stan poster
10.0

Charlie is an old circus artist who quit after an accident. When a circus comes to town, their lion is let loose.

Lejon på stan

1959

Fridolf sticker opp! poster
6.2

A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate.

Fridolf sticker opp!

1958

A Dreamer's Journey poster
7.0

Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.

A Dreamer's Journey

1957

Wild Birds poster
9.0

A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.

Wild Birds

1955

No artwork available
7.0

The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside. He wants to bring real revival.

Finnskogens folk

1955

Skrattbomben poster
8.0

Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people around laugh.

Skrattbomben

1954

Sju vackra flickor poster
8.0

Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!

Sju vackra flickor

1956

Series credits

Tre kronor poster
5.6

Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of Rederiet. The signature tune was written by Lasse Holm. The spin-off movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen! was based on two of the characters; Reine and Mimmi. The series had a dramatic ending where all the characters besides six were fatally wounded in a suicide bombing that took place at the local restaurant Tre Kronor. It was a priest himself who was the perpetrator. Two big cliffhangers in the series was when Hans Wästberg, played by Ulf Brunnberg, robbed the post office and shot his son Hans-Åke by mistake. Hans Wästberg was taken to prison and disappeared from the series after the second season. Season Three ended with Sirpa "Bimbo" Koskinen, the girlfriend of Hans-Åke Wästberg, died in a bus crash. Salongo played by Richard Sseruwagi was a refugee and a rich business man from Uganda who fell in love with a married police woman Lena Sjökvist played by Catharine Hansson and he later bought the restaurant Tre Kronor. Later in the series, Salongo buys another restaurant and he to disappeares from the series.

Tre kronor

1994

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

Sunes jul poster
7.5

Sune, an 11 year old boy struggles with girl troubles and school while he and his goofy family prepares for Christmas with failed attempts at all of the usual December traditions.

Sunes jul

1991

Sjukan poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sjukan

1995

Bamse poster
6.8

The world's strongest (and kindest) bear.

Bamse

1966

The Red Room poster
7.0

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.

The Red Room

1970

Bamse - The World's Strongest Bear poster
6.6

The adventures of Bamse and his friends Skalman and Lille-Skutt.

Bamse - The World's Strongest Bear

1972

Regnbågslandet poster
NR

Every day, Nanna steps through a door hidden inside a tree into the colorful Rainbow Land, where it is always summer. There, she meets a host of unusual characters and introduces the inhabitants to Christmas traditions, which they soon celebrate in their own unique ways.

Regnbågslandet

1970

Bröderna Malm poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bröderna Malm

1972

Dubbelsvindlarna poster
6.0

Principal Bertilsson lives a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that he is hiding a million kronor in his basement. Money of a successful bank robbery.

Dubbelsvindlarna

1982

Soldiers by Moonlight poster
8.0

The master builder Roffe (Göran Ragnerstam) and the sick Gunnar (Gösta Ekman) could have lived their lives without hearing about each other, but fate wanted something else.

Soldiers by Moonlight

2000

Genombrottet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Genombrottet

1981

Markurells i Wadköping poster
7.8

Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.

Markurells i Wadköping

1968

Håll polisen utanför poster
8.0

A large number of jewelers in different central Swedish cities are exposed to burglary. The method elicits the police when the jewels were stolen without any door to the shops being broken up. When an elderly jeweler is murdered in his shop, the local police first conclude that it is another crime of the same offender, when another jeweler in the city got burglary the day before. But Sverre Sterner soon begins to suspect that completely different motives are behind the murder. The wires lead backwards in time around a putative drowning accident.

Håll polisen utanför

1969

Allis med is poster
NR

Allis and Ann are best friends. But one day, when the girls are about twelve years old, Ann is killed in a road accident, and Allis becomes very cold inside and doesn't want any new friends. Her parents start working abroad and therefore, she has to live with her grandparents (who are the landlord and landlady of a big house) and begin going to a new school, where everybody teases her, because she is so odd and doesn't want to make friends with anyone. There is also another odd person who is teased in the class, Sigge, who is a Polish immigrant. When a bird gets hurt and Sigge takes care of it, Allis wants to help him somewhat. And after she let Sigge into the big house where she lives, nothing becomes the same and things start to happen, both in the house and in Allis's heart.

Allis med is

1993

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Villervalle i Söderhavet

1963

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