Lars Brandeby

Acting

Lars Brandeby

Born 1945-04-27 · Gothenburg, Sweden

Lars Thorsten ”Lasse” Brandeby, born April 27, 1945, in Carl Johan's parish in Gothenburg, died November 20, 2011, in Gothenburg (written in Släps parish in Kungsbacka), was a Swedish journalist, actor, and comedian. He was best known for the two comic characters Kurt Olsson and Rolf Allan Mjunstedt. Kurt Olsson was created in 1979 and appeared famously between the years 1987–1992 on TV and other media, while Mjunstedt had his TV series 1994–1998.

Acting credits

Bulan poster
10.0

"The Bump" - A factory worker get a sharp bump on his head after having collided with a lamppost. This incident causes him to leave his square daily life for spontaneous escapades and whims.

Bulan

1990

Lill-Babs 40 år som artist poster
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Legendary Swedish artist Lill-Babs celebrates 40 years as an artist with a grand evening full of performances and congratulations from some of the people she has crossed paths with over the decades.

Lill-Babs 40 år som artist

1994

Irene Huss 4: Glasdjävulen poster
6.1

In a small community near Gothenburg three members of a family priest brutally murdered. The walls are covered with up-and-inverted pentagram - the symbol of the devil's face - painted there by the victims blod.Kriminalinspektör Irene Huss drag quickly parallels to a previous case in which a priest was murdered. Even in that case there were satanic connections. But the deeper Irene Huss digs in case the more convinced she becomes that the clergy are not always as pious as they should be

Irene Huss 4: Glasdjävulen

2008

Irene Huss 5: Eldsdansen poster
6.0

A series of arsons is affecting Gothenburg. The leads brings Irene Huss to an unsolved case that happened 15 years ago. Meanwhile, a lady gets murdered in the archipelago, and at first it seems like the cases have nothing in common. Irene's investigation of the murder case leads her back far in time where secrets which are forgotten long ago come to the surface again. Irene's hard work gets even more complicated when she finds out that her daughter is a bully in school.

Irene Huss 5: Eldsdansen

2008

Irene Huss 12: Jagat vittne poster
5.8

A young beautiful woman is found dead in Göta Älv and on her finger she wears a brilliant-set wedding ring that belongs to someone else. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues are put on the case and immediately run into problems. The autopsy shows that the cause of death is not drowning but a head injury. Who is she? She is not missing, no one can identify her, no one knows anything. Meanwhile, in a run-down barracks area, an abused man is sitting and brooding over a terrible secret... Angela Kovács returns in the role of Irene Huss. We also get to see Lasse Brandeby, Reuben Sallmander, Eric Ericson, Dag Malmberg and Anki Lidén again. In addition, a new forensic technician joins the team in the form of Moa Gammel, known from, among others, Summer with Göran. Finally, the hit series about Irene Huss is back, again this time based on Helene Tursten's best-selling detective series, and with more excitement than ever.

Irene Huss 12: Jagat vittne

2011

Pettson & Findus - Kattonauten poster
5.8

Eccentric old farmer Pettersson and his cat, Findus, have hilarious adventures camping in the woods while waiting for a letter from the king.

Pettson & Findus - Kattonauten

2000

Innanför skjortan på Damorkestern poster
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Damorkestern was an all female band that was the house band of Kurt Olsson. In this documentary we get to follow them on their tour bus and interviews with the members are mixed with performances by the band.

Innanför skjortan på Damorkestern

1991

Ispärla poster
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Krister is a police officer working on a case before his cancer treatment begins. A boy has disappeared and Krister knows exactly what it is like to lose a child. He also cares for his demented wife at home.

Ispärla

2011

No artwork available
NR

Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary premiere in 2025. Director, producer and lead actor is Anders Olofsson. Olofsson is entirely responsible for the financing of the project and the casting.

Stall-Erik and the Snapphans

Irene Huss 8: Det lömska nätet poster
5.8

A bicycle messenger sees a girl being brutally assaulted and dragged into a van. She immediately calls the police, but unfortunately the girl is found too late. It turns out that the murdered girl has been the victim of a serious sexual crime. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and the rest of the team begin to look for the murderer, but have very few clues to go on. When another young girl is murdered in a similar way, the team realizes that they are dealing with a sexual predator. How does he get in touch with the girls? Why do they agree to meet him? Why are they wearing special underwear?

Irene Huss 8: Det lömska nätet

2011

Sicken ärta poster
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Swedish production of the muscial Once Upon a Mattress from 1998 that wasn't released until 2021.

Sicken ärta

2021

Irene Huss 1: The Torso poster
5.1

On a beach in Gothenburg found parts of a dismembered man's body. The only thing that is going on, a tattoo on the torso. Irene Huss finds similar previous cases that will take her to Copenhagen, where she is forced to look for a friend's daughter who disappeared. Likfyndet will be the prelude to more nasty murders that lead Irene to Copenhagen's underworld.

Irene Huss 1: The Torso

2007

Upp till camping poster
2.0

It's the 1990s. Jane and Jonny Molin own the campsite "Fredriksdals Trivselcamping." Last year, the campsite received the "award" for trash can of the year. If they receive it again this year, they will lose the campsite, so now they have to find that inspector, the one who travels incognito. If they just suck up to him enough, they might even get the "golden tent peg" instead of their rivals Gulli and Bill Hilding. They suspect one guest after another at the small campsite, while their son Allan just sighs; he has no intention of helping, no, he wouldn't want to take over the campsite anyway.

Upp till camping

1997

Irene Huss: The Man With the Small Face poster
5.9

After an elder man gets hit by a stolen car, the police decides to investigate it. The stolen car is later found next to a murdered young girl, prompting Inspector Irene Huss and her co-workers to investigate and slowly get pulled into a world of evil.

Irene Huss: The Man With the Small Face

2011

Irene Huss 3: The Night Round poster
4.9

A blackout leaves the distinguished halls of the Löwanderska Hospital in complete darkness. Doctor Sverker Löwander hears the alarm when one of the ventilators go off, and rushes to the intensive care unit only to find the nurse in charge dead in the stairwell and the other disappeared without a trace. When DI Irene Huss arrives, the only witness claims to have seen Nurse Tekla doing her rounds. There's only one slight problem: Nurse Tekla committed suicide at the hospital sixty years ago.

Irene Huss 3: The Night Round

2008

Irene Huss 7: Den som vakar i mörkret poster
6.6

Two Boy Scouts find a buried female body in a desolate field. Irene Huss and her team begin to investigate the case. As the investigation continues, more graves are discovered, each containing a buried female body along with what appears to be a personal item. It is now clear that a horrific serial killer is rampaging in the area. The police are very puzzled and cannot find a connection between the victims other than that they are middle-aged women. At the same time, Irene begins to feel persecuted...

Irene Huss 7: Den som vakar i mörkret

2011

Irene Huss 11: I skydd av skuggorna poster
5.8

A man is found executed in the harbor. Irene Huss and her team are put on the case and everything points to a deal in the underworld. But eventually Irene realizes that the case has a personal connection. After a bombing, she is suddenly drawn into a blackmailing scheme where no one is safe - least of all her family. The police and prosecutors are powerless against the criminal gangs and Irene is finally forced to take matters into her own hands...

Irene Huss 11: I skydd av skuggorna

2011

Irene Huss 10: Tystnadens cirkel poster
5.0

A young man is found dead, dumped in a container. The body is naked, bloody and battered. An autopsy shows the victim was GHB in the body and have suffered whiplash, cuts and burns. Everything indicates that he has been kidnapped and sexually abused and tortured. There seems to be an organized gang has done this before, this is just the first time the victim has died. The tracks leading to a nightclub that Irene's daughter Jenny and her friend's visit, unaware of the danger. Irene Huss and her colleagues have a problem with the investigation when those who become victims do not report crimes because of shame, and for fear that someone will find out what happened.

Irene Huss 10: Tystnadens cirkel

2011

Fridtjof's Christmas poster
2.0

It is the pre-Christmas season in Ytre Enebakk, and the male choir is set to sing in Christmas with the village's famous son, Fridtjof, as soloist. But the parish priest, the tax collector, and the sheriff want to spoil Christmas, so to speak, because of Fridtjof's reckless driving with snabelstoff and his frivolous dealings with the village women, and they hire a thug to take care of the matter. The women's choir is ready to take over the Christmas concert with opera diva Ragna Olm, but when things heat up in the village more than Fridtjof himself, he has to take matters into his own hands to save Christmas peace. Ytre Enebakk's great son, Fridtjof, is back in familiar style – and he has the star team of actors ever with him! The film offers humor, action, and Christmas spirit for the whole family when Fridtjof & co. sing in Christmas!

Fridtjof's Christmas

2006

Kurt Olsson - filmen om mitt liv som mej själv poster
4.7

How did Kurt become who he was? Why was he never elected class monitor? When did Arne come into the picture? And what happened when this dynamic duo did their military service? And Gudrun, who does she really like best? You'll find the answers in the film about Kurtan. Kurtan seems to have his fingers in everything... from the shipyard crisis to the switch to right-hand traffic... and somehow everything seems to go wrong...

Kurt Olsson - filmen om mitt liv som mej själv

1990

Irene Huss 6: Guldkalven poster
5.9

A man is found shot dead in the trunk of a car. Four fingers on one hand have been cut off. The man was a co-owner of an online poker company that quickly grew into a multi-million dollar business before going bankrupt. Shortly thereafter, another co-owner is found murdered. The third and final co-owner, Sanna, is still alive but lives under constant threat. The police eventually find three of the first victim's severed fingers, but where is the fourth finger? Who will the killer send the last finger to? And why were the fingers severed? The investigation leads Irene Huss into a world unknown to her, of expensive luxury cars and magnificent villas in exclusive locations, where Russian caviar is an everyday food and the champagne is genuine, expensive, and constantly flowing. On a personal level, Irene is convinced that her husband Krister is having an affair.

Irene Huss 6: Guldkalven

2008

Irene Huss 2: Den krossade tanghästen poster
5.3

A man jumps from a balcony and dies. His terrified wife witnesses the event in a nearby taxi cab. Once Irene Huss arrives on the scene, it soon turns out that what appeared to be a tragic suicide is actually a brutal murder, and the victim is one of Gothenburg's wealthiest men. When it becomes clear that a biker gang is involved, the investigation gets even more complicated and Irene finds herself tracking down a shrewd and dangerous murderer among ex-millionaires, motorcycle gangs, drug dealers, and blackmailers. At the same time, she has to deal with everyday life and a teenage daughter who has decided to join a gang of skinheads with Neo-Nazi tendencies.

Irene Huss 2: Den krossade tanghästen

2008

Sällskapsvideon poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Sällskapsvideon

1993

Somrarna med Poppe & Rydberg poster
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The Fredriksdal outdoor theatre has been a comedy staple of Swedish summers and television in winters for decades. First under Nils Poppe and then under Eva Rydberg. But 2023 was Eva's last summer in charge of the theatre and the end of this era is celebrated by this documentary.

Somrarna med Poppe & Rydberg

2023

Behind the camera