Dan Ekborg

Acting

Dan Ekborg

Born

1955-11-23 (70)

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Dan Peder Clemens Ekborg (born 23 November 1955) is a Swedish actor. He is the son of actor Lars Ekborg and older brother of actor Anders Ekborg. He has starred in many of the Swedish Jönssonligan films. He is also the Swedish voice for Hades in Disney's Hercules and the Swedish voice for Genie in Disney's Aladdin. He participated as a celebrity dance in Let's Dance 2019, which is broadcast on TV4

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation poster
6.1

Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudden deadly attack by a well drilled group of mercenaries of unknown clients. Hamilton escapes the massacre, but the rockets have disappeared without a trace.

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation

2012

A One-Way Trip to Antibes poster
5.7

When George (Sven-Bertil Taube), a half-blind widower, learns that his children (Malin Morgan, Dan Ekborg) have conceived an elaborate plan to get their hands on his assets before he dies, he must confront his life choices. After catching his young home help Maria (Rebecca Ferguson's screen debut) red-handed in the act of stealing, George blackmails her into assisting him in a counterattack, triggering off a chain reaction in the family. George's children discover that he has a secret mistress in France.

A One-Way Trip to Antibes

2011

Sven-Bertil poster
NR

Interpreter, actor and entertainer. Sven-Bertil Taubes' career spans almost a lifetime. As the son of two legendary artists, he had a lot to live up to. This is the story of Sven-Bertil Taubes' life, told in his own words. It will be a journey through nine decades.

Sven-Bertil

2016

Love and Lemons poster
5.7

Agnes has most things in life: a family who are always there for her, a good job in the restaurant industry, a boyfriend who loves her, and a best friend whom she knows inside out. Or does she? All of a sudden things begin to crumble, one by one, and soon nothing is as it was.

Love and Lemons

2013

For Better and Worse poster
4.0

A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.

For Better and Worse

2015

Sverige er fantastisk poster
4.4

A comedy about two Danish strippers, Mona and Netty, who see life as a carefree party paid for by various men. Or at least that's how it was before... After a conflict with the club owner, they are fired and flee to Sweden to find Mona's love, who reportedly lives on a remote farm. And the two women learn more about life on a wild journey out in the Swedish countryside.

Sverige er fantastisk

2015

2000s · 11 titles

Beck 20 - The Lawyer poster
5.9

The murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company was being sued for serious environmental damage. Martin Beck and Lena Klingström find evidence which brings new light to the investigation - but who's pulling the strings?

Beck 20 - The Lawyer

2007

Anyway, He's Definitely Dead poster
5.3

Two men meet in a detached house in the Stockholm archipelago to write a play, hunt roe dear and relax in a sauna. But a tabloid got a news story about the authors and sends a journalist to take photographs and bug their conversations.

Anyway, He's Definitely Dead

2000

A Midsummer of Love poster
5.0

The Swedish summer is on and Göran, recently dumped by his girlfriend, is searching for the woman of his dreams. Göran is not altogether in harmony with himself or his work situation and is trying a bit too hard to please everyone around him. Unlike his best friend, he is not prepared to compromise with love and settle for the less-than-perfect girl. In pursuit of love, he sails out to a Midsummer party in the seductive Swedish archipelago.

A Midsummer of Love

2009

No artwork available
5.3

Bellman and his wife Lovisa live in a loving marriage, but in extreme poverty. They struggle to keep the family together and Lovisa tries to persuade Bellman to perform in order to earn a livelihood.

Lovisa och Carl Michael

2005

The Jönsson Gang at High Stakes poster
5.0

Vanheden and Dynamite-Harry are approached by Sickan's grandmother and Sickan's younger brother Sven-Ingvar. Their evil nemesis Wall-Enberg are planning to steal billions of euros of the European Union's grants to culture. The grant of 350 million kronor, paid by an Italian bank acting as intermediary, equals 60 billion lire but through assistance of a Sicilian "businessman", this sum becomes 60 billion kronor when transferred. The money is to be transferred to a large number of bank accounts, and the account numbers are saved on a floppy disc that the Jönsson gang is trying to steal.

The Jönsson Gang at High Stakes

2000

Se upp för dårarna poster
5.3

Two girls from different backgrounds, one an immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl who needs to get out of her father's shadow, apply to the police academy, where they become close friends.

Se upp för dårarna

2007

Den enskilde medborgaren poster
5.3

Insurance Director Stig Roxby is worth a hundred times more than an ordinary high school teacher. But he doesn't think that's enough, but sees himself forced to work with four other director colleagues to lift the bonus cap to be even more valuable. After some complications, Stig Roxby realize the brutal truth: he has everything but the essentials...

Den enskilde medborgaren

2006

Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang poster
6.5

The movie is based on Barbro Lindgrens popular and absurd comical books Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang (1969) and Loranga, Loranga (1970). The movie is about the worlds greatest dad that loves pop music and refuses to get a job - because who would then play with his son Masarin? Lorangas dad Dartanjang lives in the woodshed to prevent germs from getting to him. But that does not seem to help because he keeps getting sick all the time.

Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang

2005

No artwork available
NR

John gets his mom to buy him a pair of expensive tennis shoes. They tell dad the shoes were on sale. It turns out the shoes are too small. John secretly keeps using his old shoes, until one day everything changes.

Sneakers

2006

Powder poster
8.0

A tiny theatrical company turns into a war zone of egos as a new play goes into rehearsal in this broad comedy from Sweden. A camera crew from a television outlet is on hand to shoot a commercial as a harried director tries to put her cast through their paces. Not everyone, however, feels like cooperating; her two leading men seem to be competing over who gets most of the spotlight, much to the annoyance of the female star, while the troupe's makeup artist has a plan of his own.

Powder

2001

Pariserliv poster
10.0

Live performance of Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne

Pariserliv

2001

1990s · 7 titles

In Bed with Santa poster
6.4

Sara invites her ex-husbands and their new families to celebrate Christmas with her and her husband Janne. Sara has always wanted to have a baby with Janne, and at the dinner table she reveals the news: she's pregnant. The only problem is that Janne had a vasectomy two years ago, without Sara knowing it. The secret starts to spread among the guests, and in no time everyone knows but Sara. The party heads for a complete disaster. Who's the real father?

In Bed with Santa

1999

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

Kuta och kör poster
7.5

Comedy about a cab driver who is a bigamist.

Kuta och kör

1992

Uppfinnaren poster
9.0

"The Inventor" - About "Arbman Development" an inventory company initiated by PR-guru Leon Nordin. AD produced a total of 173 inventions, including a banknote counter that made confetti out of money.

Uppfinnaren

1991

Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota poster
NR

Documents the highlights of a concert version of the musical written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, performed in Minnesota. Based on a series of novels detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century, we also meet some of the descendants to the emigrants.

Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota

1996

Flott & Lagom poster
NR

A mix of comedy and music in this award winning stage revue.

Flott & Lagom

1992

Alla var där! poster
NR

A translation of Derek Benfield's farce "Anyone for breakfast?" Martina is tired of her boring life and her partner Roger and decides to have an affair. She borrows her friend Martina's house for this purpose and invites her workout partner Pontus over for dinner. Martina is away for crystal therapy and her husband Gilbert is in Düsseldorf on business, so they should have the house to themselves...

Alla var där!

1998

1980s · 10 titles

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca poster
5.7

Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca

1989

The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry poster
6.0

Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old dynamiter Dynamite-Harry and he ruins the plan. Sickan is arrested, and has to spend 10 months in a small, locked room. When he is released, he has a new plan, but Rocky and Vanheden have decided to go straight. Together with Dynamite-Harry, Sickan plans to rob a cold store, managed by their arch-enemy, Wall-Enberg.

The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry

1982

Det sköna är svårt poster
NR

A film about the painter Carl Fredrik Hill and his mental health issues.

Det sköna är svårt

1985

Moa poster
7.8

The life of the swedish writer Moa Martinson: at the age of 18, Moa marries the stone worker Karl and has five children. The marriage becomes stormy and fringed with tragedies. In the adversities, Moa begins to write about her life. She tells unpleasant truths, and doesn't get much understanding. Her life changes when the books are published in ever larger editions. She can tear herself out of her poverty, but never abandons her origins. In 1929 she remarries the writer Harry Martinson.

Moa

1986

The Jönsson Gang Turns Up Again poster
6.1

As always, Sickan has come up with a new plan. This time he wants to rob the IKEA furniture store. During their nightly break-in Sickan discovers that the store is used as a secret smuggling central for sending American computers to the Soviet Union. The computers are picked up by Soviet submarines sneaking into the Swedish archipelago. Naturally, it is their arch enemy Wall-Enberg who is behind all of this.

The Jönsson Gang Turns Up Again

1986

The Man from Majorca poster
6.6

On 13 December (St Lucy's Day), a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Vice cops Johansson and Jarnebring, the first to the scene of the crime, pursue all leads and identify a suspect, an arrogant member of the elite secret police, assigned to guard the country's Minister of Justice. Just as they think they've tightened the noose around the suspect, loose ends appear, witnesses lose certainty, alibis arise, and even the cops doubt what they've seen. Who's protecting the suspect and why?

The Man from Majorca

1984

Hamlet poster
7.7

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.

Hamlet

1985

One Way Ticket poster
5.2

Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pressure to pay and agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition onboard a cruise ship.

One Way Ticket

1988

No artwork available
7.0

The dying Swedish King Gustav III sends for the troubadour Carl Michael Bellman for a performance. Bellman is far from capable of appearing at all when a courtier comes to pick him up. But slowly his imagination begins to flow, and he begins to write down a new play. The question is whether it will be ready in time.

Haren och vråken

1984

No artwork available
NR

Dr. Prentice, a psychiatrist is interviewing an attractive secretary, Geraldine. Unwittingly surprised by his wife, he hides the girl. The affairs multiply as Mrs. Prentice, being seduced and blackmailed by young bellhop Nicholas.

What the Butler Saw

1983

Series credits

Så ska det låta poster
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

Hellenius Hörna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hellenius Hörna

2010

Doobidoo poster
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

Fort Boyard Sweden poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Fort Boyard Sweden

1990

Renées brygga poster
NR

TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them.

Renées brygga

2015

Renées brygga poster
NR

TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them.

Renées brygga

2015

Stjärnorna på slottet poster
7.0

Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.

Stjärnorna på slottet

2006

The Traitors Sweden poster
6.4

Actor Dragomir Mrsic leads the program where board games meet reality. Get ready for a nerve-racking murder mystery game where viewers become witnesses behind the scenes. 18 participants, completely unaware of each other, arrive at Häringe Castle and are put to the test in the psychological game. Who in the group can be trusted, who is plotting and, above all, who are the traitors?

The Traitors Sweden

2023

Klassfesten poster
NR

In "Klassfesten" Swedish celebrities compete against each other in knowledge from their own time in primary school. Each week, two celebrities are pitted against each other in subjects ranging from history and music to PE and mathematics. During the competition they also share memories from their time in school.

Klassfesten

2017

Anxious People poster
6.2

A bank robber holds the visitors of an open house hostage and then promptly vanishes, leaving the police baffled — and suspicious of everyone.

Anxious People

2021

August poster
6.0

In 1876, Strindberg is penniless and once again his play "Master Olof" is rejected by the Royal Dramatic Theater. Debt collectors his furniture and Strindberg is on the verge of committing suicide.

August

2007

Bror & syster poster
NR

Yvonne and Isa, who have been in love for a year, are going to Lebanon to visit Isa's relatives. But before the trip, Yvonne's mother dies unexpectedly and she is forced to reconnect with her little brother Klas, a talented opera singer. At the funeral, Yvonne explains to Klas that she wants to sell their mother's summer house, where they grew up. When Klas hears this, he breaks down in a way Yvonne could never have imagined. Fragments of memories from their childhood begin to flood Yvonne's mind, and nothing seems simple anymore. The trip to Lebanon is canceled, and Yvonne takes Isa with her to the summer house.

Bror & syster

2007

Dubbelstötarna poster
9.0

A school principal and a doctor plan to rob a bank.

Dubbelstötarna

1980

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark poster
NR

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

1985

Detta har hänt poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Detta har hänt

1996

Nya himlar och en ny jord poster
NR

Drama about the life of the writer Carl Jonas Love Almqvist.

Nya himlar och en ny jord

1984

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nästa man till rakning

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sjön suger

2008

No artwork available
10.0

Henry and Wolfgang have been best friends for 25 years, and we get to follow their everyday lives, where Wolfgang is a journalist at the magazines "Svensk färg" and "Fiskejournalen", but Henry is a lawyer at Konsumentverket.

Män emellan

2003