Lennart Hjulström

Acting

Lennart Hjulström

Born — Died

1938-07-18 — 2022-07-03

Place of birth

Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Lennart Hjalmar Hjulström was a Swedish actor and director. He was married to Gunilla Nyroos and father of Niklas and Carin Hjulström. His father was Filip Hjulström.

Known for

Wallander poster
6.9

Detective Kurt Wallander solves gruesome complex crimes in the city of Ystad, Sweden.

Wallander

2005

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles poster
6.5

At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992

Beck poster
6.8

Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.

Beck

1999

Millennium poster
7.6

Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is drawn into an endlessly dark world, with enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander his only guide.

Millennium

2010

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

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest poster
7.1

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

2009

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2010s · 4 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

Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter poster
5.8

Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.

Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter

2012

The Last Sentence poster
6.1

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than his daughter, and the suicide of his wife. However, he continues to fight a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death, throwing the question “Can one person really change history?” to the audience.

The Last Sentence

2012

Lars and the Baron poster
5.0

In the late 19th Century, a poacher and his wife move into a cave. They fight against society for their right to stay, as well as for their own relationship.

Lars and the Baron

2016

2000s · 14 titles

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest poster
7.1

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

2009

The Third Wave poster
6.1

Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.

The Third Wave

2003

Evil poster
7.3

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

Evil

2003

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid poster
5.8

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to discover what love is all about. In Florence, when Indy's mother is equally smitten with Giacomo Puccini, composer of Romantic operas La Boheme and Tosca, Indy must guide his parent safely back to her spouse.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

2000

Wallander: The Joker poster
5.9

When a woman is murdered outside her restaurant in front of her eight-year-old daughter, Wallander and his team link the death to a restaurant mafia.

Wallander: The Joker

2006

Executive Protection poster
6.2

After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers, and then threatening Sven and his family. With no where else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.

Executive Protection

2001

Utanför din dörr poster
5.2

André moves to Lycksele, a small town in the north of Sweden, he wants to be alone. Instead he meets Sanna and finds love. But it seems almost impossible to connect with André.

Utanför din dörr

2002

Camilla Läckberg: The Preacher poster
5.1

A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.

Camilla Läckberg: The Preacher

2007

An Image Maker poster
NR

Making of-documentary about Ingmar Bergman's The Image Makers, featuring behind the scenes footage and an interview with its writer, Per Olov Enquist.

An Image Maker

2001

No artwork available
7.0

A pair of upper middle ages where the man has been retired due to tinnitus undergoes a crisis. The woman has been cheating and crying and crying excuses at home. It appears that ...

Reparation

2001

Kent - ett porträtt av Kent Andersson poster
NR

Documentary about actor and writer Kent Andersson for his 70th birthday.

Kent - ett porträtt av Kent Andersson

2004

The Secret poster
8.0

Carl-Ivar Nilsson was an actor in the series "Hem till byn", but he carried a big secret that was revealed to a shocked family 1985.

The Secret

2009

The Image Makers poster
6.8

Set in 1920, The Image Makers depicts a private screening at Svensk Filmindustri, where silent-era director Victor Sjöström presents scenes from his adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf’s The Phantom Carriage. As the Nobel Prize–winning author watches alongside cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and young actress Tora Teje, tensions emerge between generations, genders, and artistic roles, exposing the emotional costs behind creation.

The Image Makers

2000

No artwork available
6.7

A manager visits his anorexia daughter on the laser and talks with a problematic employee at the office. Through these two conversations we meet a man who, despite all the difficulties, just tries to make progress here in life.

Headway

2003

1990s · 13 titles

The Best Intentions poster
7.0

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.

The Best Intentions

1992

Beck 03 - White Nights poster
6.3

When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and moves out of the way. But on his colleagues request he returns.

Beck 03 - White Nights

1998

A Scent of Paradise poster
4.5

Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.

A Scent of Paradise

1997

Zero Tolerance poster
6.2

Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.

Zero Tolerance

1999

Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl poster
5.6

Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and with danger to their own life take in the dangerous explosive chemical substance.

Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl

1998

Beck 07 - The Money Man poster
6.2

A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's underworld. In return have the homosexual police, been serving Gavling with secret information from the archive of the police authorities.

Beck 07 - The Money Man

1998

BlackJack poster
5.3

Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who go out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The drummer Tommy is known for being the local Casanova, seducing women when ever he gets the chance. It doesn't take him long to have an affair with Inger, behind Kaj's back.

BlackJack

1990

Rusar i hans famn poster
8.0

Municipal commissioner Tore dies in a plane crash and leaves his wife Monica and children Lena and Klas behind. Through flashbacks by Monica we see how their married life was, with lots of up and downs.

Rusar i hans famn

1996

The Ox poster
6.5

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events.

The Ox

1991

Rosenbaum - Bländverk poster
1.7

At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.

Rosenbaum - Bländverk

1993

Hebriana poster
8.0

During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.

Hebriana

1990

No artwork available
NR

A man is assigned to measure out land for subdivision on an estate. People and animals behave strangely, and the man hears a strange story about a woman who disappeared without a trace from the estate twenty years earlier.

From the Dead

1990

No artwork available
4.5

Sture is a rich alcoholic who has taken a trip to Mallorca to drink himself to death. But he meets Sylvia and they start a relationship. Sture moves in with her in a middle-class community. Sylvia has an eighteen year old daughter, Eva. She gets murdered on the night between Midsummer eve and Midsummer day, and to the police the primary suspect is Sture, who was so intoxicated that he can not say what he was doing during the night.

Sommarmord

1994

1980s · 10 titles

My Life as a Dog poster
7.3

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

My Life as a Dog

1985

The Ninth Company poster
5.8

A few conscripts realise that the army has vast resources that don't get used as much as they could. Using army material, they start to do services for people in the neighbourhood. More and more money is exchanged, more and more people gets involved, but when will someone reveal the truth to someoney who they can't pay?

The Ninth Company

1987

A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon poster
7.0

A biopic of the mathematician Sonia Kovalevsky.

A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon

1983

Mördare! Mördare! poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mördare! Mördare!

1980

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

Code Name Coq Rouge poster
6.4

His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a group of terrorists based in Sweden threatens to initiate their diabolic plans - the Coq Rouge Carl Hamilton is activated.

Code Name Coq Rouge

1989

In the Name of the Law poster
6.4

A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van...

In the Name of the Law

1986

Husbonden poster
6.0

Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His master is a pirate who, together with his two daughters, live on killing shipwrecked sailors and stealing their cargo. Eventually, Charlie begins to question the correctness of his master living.

Husbonden

1989

Dom unga örnarna poster
9.0

Five men with roots in a political youth organization reunite after 30 years for a collective manifestation/celebration march through the forest.

Dom unga örnarna

1982

No artwork available
NR

A man with a battered, jangling suitcase appears in an airport out of nowhere. The surprised customs officer, ever more confused, gets a free ticket for a performance he will never forget.

The Artist

1987

Series credits

Wallander poster
6.9

Detective Kurt Wallander solves gruesome complex crimes in the city of Ystad, Sweden.

Wallander

2005

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles poster
6.5

At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992

Beck poster
6.8

Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.

Beck

1999

Millennium poster
7.6

Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is drawn into an endlessly dark world, with enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander his only guide.

Millennium

2010

Profitörerna poster
6.0

Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel.

Profitörerna

1983

Talismanen poster
4.2

Wallton, a sacked former policeman, is assigned to locate a priceless Arabian jewelry, a talisman. According to legend, the talisman brings misfortune and death to anyone who unlawfully takes the jewelery. The hunt for the mysterious talisman leads Wallton through all layers of society, and he encounters one mysterious death after another.

Talismanen

2003

Kejsarn av Portugallien poster
7.0

A Swedish farmer gets crazy and imagines that his daughter has become emperor of Portugallien and he himself emperor.

Kejsarn av Portugallien

1992

No artwork available
5.2

A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.

August Strindberg: A Life

1985

Komedianter poster
7.0

Describes a few artistic friends in the Swedish countryside, who learn how life and reality outweigh the poem

Komedianter

1987

No artwork available
6.0

Martin Holst is the dynamic CEO of the pharmaceutical manufacturer Holst Medicals. When his son Jonas is kidnapped and turned into an innocent pawn in a much greater game, Martin loses control not only over his family and the company, but over his whole life. Before long he is forced to reevaluate everything he used to take for granted.

Medicinmannen

2005

Korset poster
10.0

Birger and Eivor's daughter is buried after having died from a heroin overdose. Birger reacts violently. Soon known drug profiles are being found crucified on the doors to the institutions of society

Korset

1985

Taurus poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Taurus

2002

Behind the camera