Dan Ekborg

Acting

Dan Ekborg

Born 1955-11-23 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

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

Acting credits

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

Love and Lemons poster
5.8

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

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

Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark 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.

Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark

1985

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

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

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 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

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

Det sköna är svårt poster
NR

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

Det sköna är svårt

1985

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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