Writing
Clark Olofsson
Born — Died
1947-02-01 — 2025-06-24
Place of birth
Trollhättan, Älvsborgs län, Sweden
Known for
Writing
Credits
7 titles
Clark Oderth Olofsson (1 February 1947 – 24 June 2025) was a Swedish criminal. He was sentenced for attempted murder, assault, robbery, and drug trafficking, spending more than half his life in prison. Olofsson was often referred to as Sweden’s first “celebrity gangster”. Born in Trollhättan into a home marred by alcoholism, his childhood was tumultuous. His father left when Clark was 11, and his mother’s subsequent mental illness led to him and his two younger sisters being placed in foster care. At age 15, determined to escape, he forged his mother’s signature, enrolled in a sailors’ school, and spent his youth sailing between Japan and South America on the ship *Ballade*. Upon returning …
Known for
7.7"The Norrmalmstorgs drama from the inside" - For more than 30 years, the bank-robber Janne Olsson refused to talk about the noted bank-robbery at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, in 1973. This is the first interview with Olsson.
Norrmalmstorgsdramat inifrån
2003
8.0The notorious Swedish criminal Clark Olofsson's activities from his first serious conviction in 1966 and ten years on of bank robberies and fraud.
Clark
1977
NRClark Olofsson has been called Sweden's most famous bank robber. He has been in prison for most of his adult life, escaped 17 times and gave rise to the concept of Stockholm Syndrome. Olofsson has been a free man since 2018 and in the interview with Malou von Sivers he looks back on his criminal career. There will also be a conversation about women, children and whether he feels any remorse towards his victims.
Malou möter Clark Olofsson
2022
5.5At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.
Året var 1973
2023
5.01962 - the year when Anita Lindblom sings Sånt är livet on TV and the Swedish national ice hockey team wins gold in Colorado. Ursula Wirth and Ewy Rosqvist win Argentina's Gran Premio for standard cars in fierce competition. The Third World War almost breaks out - the Cuban Missile Crisis pits the superpowers the USA and the Soviet Union against each other. Leif Erik Nygårds is in New York and takes a picture of Marilyn Monroe, just a few weeks before she dies. Bobby Fischer plays chess in Stockholm and wins.
Året var 1962
2012
1.0Notorious bank-robber Clark Olofsson - whose actions coined the term Stockholm syndrome - is released from prison at age 71 after a long stay. He's been in prison or on the run half his life, since his teenage years. But now he'd like to leave that life behind him and live a quite life. This documentary follows him during his first year out.
Clark: En rövarhistoria
2020
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
NRClark Olofsson has been called Sweden's most famous bank robber. He has been in prison for most of his adult life, escaped 17 times and gave rise to the concept of Stockholm Syndrome. Olofsson has been a free man since 2018 and in the interview with Malou von Sivers he looks back on his criminal career. There will also be a conversation about women, children and whether he feels any remorse towards his victims.
Malou möter Clark Olofsson
2022
5.5At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.
Året var 1973
2023
1.0Notorious bank-robber Clark Olofsson - whose actions coined the term Stockholm syndrome - is released from prison at age 71 after a long stay. He's been in prison or on the run half his life, since his teenage years. But now he'd like to leave that life behind him and live a quite life. This documentary follows him during his first year out.
Clark: En rövarhistoria
2020
2000s · 2 titles
7.7"The Norrmalmstorgs drama from the inside" - For more than 30 years, the bank-robber Janne Olsson refused to talk about the noted bank-robbery at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, in 1973. This is the first interview with Olsson.
Norrmalmstorgsdramat inifrån
2003
NRAn interview with the Swedish criminal Clark Olofsson, received sentences for attempted murder, assault, robbery, and dealing narcotics and has spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions in Sweden.
Folkhemsdesperadon
2001