Sten Ljunggren
Sten Ivar Ljunggren (born October 16, 1938) is a Swedish character actor. He played Henrik in the long-running Swedish drama TV series Svenska hjärtan, which aired between 1987 and 1998. Other notable roles includes criminal inspector Lennart Thorin in the TV mini-series based on the Lasermannen events, the retired doctor Axel Holtman in Skärgårdsdoktorn, the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Swedish dub of Up, the voice of Sykes in the Swedish cinema dub of Oliver & Company, and the evil principal in Kenny Starfighter.
He played the lead role as Birger in Lukas Moodysson's last short film Talk. The same character, with some modifications, was used again in Moodysson's Together. Ljunggren reprised the role.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.165 |
| Birthday | 1938-10-16 |
| Place of Birth | Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden |
| Also Known As | Sten Ljungren, Sten Ivar Ljunggren, Стен Льюнггрен, |
2004
Popular Music
6.3/56
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia,...
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Popular Music
2000
Together
7/242
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called...
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Together
Sunday Roast
0/0
Holger lives alone in his apartment. When 60 years younger Anna moves into the same stairwell, he invites her to a Sunday dinner. What first appears t...
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Sunday Roast
2022
Burn All My Letters
5.6/9
The film’s story revolves around Karin Stolpe’s complex relationship with her husband Sven Stolpe and her passionate love affair with Olof Lagercrantz...
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Burn All My Letters
1999
The Health Journey
4.083/48
The film is about the health resort Granhedsgården in Dalarna, Sweden, and they have a problem. They don't have many guests at all and something must...
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The Health Journey
2007
Gone with the Woman
6.4/27
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
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Gone with the Woman
2022
Arne Meets Death
5/1
The year is 1995. It knocks on the door of 'Greedy Arne' Nyman's dilapidated house. It is Death who has come to take him. Greedy Arne is not worried o...
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Arne Meets Death
1993
Lotta Leaves Home
5.9/24
A feisty five-year-old girl Lotta decides to move away from home. And no, she doesn't want to put on the stupid sweater.
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Lotta Leaves Home
2006
Suddenly
4.8/10
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to...
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Suddenly
2005
The Chosen
5.2/15
A couple of brutal and mysterious murders point to Uppsala University. Johan, a last year student at the police academy, gets involved in the investig...
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The Chosen
1992
The Best Intentions
7.131/65
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,...
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The Best Intentions
1989
Hassel - Säkra papper
4.5/2
A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is...
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Hassel - Säkra papper
1984
The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever
6.295/56
Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government inte...
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The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever
2010
Four More Years
6.138/29
The Swedish Liberal party leader David Holst is in crisis. Just recently, he was Sweden’s hottest politician. Stylish, funny, popular and the obvious...
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Four More Years
2004
Young Jönsson Gang at Summer Camp
3.2/13
Eager to spend the summer at camp, the young Jönsson gang finds itself instead at a punitive, hardscrabble institution run by their archenemy.
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Young Jönsson Gang at Summer Camp
2009
Almost Elvis
2/1
Pirko lives in Gothenburg but gets kicked out of his pregnant girlfriend. He seeks his roots in northern Sweden. Pirko discovers karaoke.
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Almost Elvis
2005
Pistvakt
5.3/19
Three middle aged brothers is living home in a Godforsaken skiing resort in the northernmost part of Sweden and sees their life change when their fath...
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Pistvakt
1996
To Steal a Thief
3.467/15
Roger is a failed petty criminal living in Stockholm who falls in love with the cute Susanna
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To Steal a Thief
1987
The Ninth Company
5.731/13
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 fo...
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The Ninth Company
2009
The Temptation of St. Tony
7/37
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control...
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The Temptation of St. Tony
1988
Swedes at Sea
5.7/57
The landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive at an archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the...
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Swedes at Sea
1986
Peas & Whiskers
6.4/25
Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
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Peas & Whiskers
2011
Somewhere Else
5/1
Alongside a tranquil road somewhere in Sweden live a number of people who are pretty much like people in general. When a highly improbable and catastr...
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Somewhere Else
2012
Fuck Up
5.4/23
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and e...
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Fuck Up
1994
Pillertrillaren
2.813/8
David has just started working for a large pharmaceutical company and falls madly in love with a young and very beautiful colleague, Angelica.
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Pillertrillaren
1991
Who Framed Harry Lund?
6/13
Harry Lund is having a bad day. First he gets fired. And then loses his entire fortune at an illegal gambling club. On his way out, he is assaulted an...
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Who Framed Harry Lund?
1999
Deadly Drift
5/4
A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill....
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Deadly Drift
1994
Zorn
5.5/13
Swedish painter Anders Zorn gained notoriety for his nudes. His works are currently worth millions. The film is set in the time when Zorn, already res...
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Zorn
2013
Us
4.6/24
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxyg...
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Us
2022
Göta Canal 4: Win or Disappear
4.5/6
When the owners of the boatyard are going to divorce, they can not decide who will get it. They agree to make the division of property through a compe...
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Göta Canal 4: Win or Disappear
2013
Nobody Owns Me
6.7/33
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betray...
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Nobody Owns Me
2006
Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap
6/1
The pig Desmond and his friends are haunted by the terrible monster Träskpatraske. Granted, they are not sure he even exists, but who else could have...
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Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap
2013
Wallander: The Troubled Man
5.667/15
Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her fami...
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Wallander: The Troubled Man
1993
Den gråtande ministern
1/1
The Defence Minister Sven Cedevall, a popular politician and happily married family father, isn't the kind of man who should risk what he got for a te...
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Den gråtande ministern
1996
Harry & Sonja
7/1
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja.
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Harry & Sonja
2003
Ramona
5/1
The young code breaker Karnell works in the Swedish intelligence service during the Cold War. Having cracked a secret code he is drawn into a conspira...
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Ramona
2023
Together 99
5.8/15
A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's...
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Together 99
1994
Utmaningen
0/0
A gunman has taken residency on an uninhabited island and a local man has to deescalate the situation without getting the police involved.
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Utmaningen
2015
For Better and Worse
3.864/11
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.
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For Better and Worse
1990
Greger Olsson köper en bil
0/0
Greger Olsson and his wife are expecting their first child and she wants to buy a stroller, but Greger has other plans.
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Greger Olsson köper en bil
1996
Ellinors bröllop
7/1
Peter and his friend Göran are both students, aged 21. Eight years ago Peter had a girlfriend, Ellinor, whom he has not seen since. One day he gets an...
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Ellinors bröllop
2025
Stall-Erik and the Snapphans
0/0
Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary premiere in 2025. Director, producer and lead acto...
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Stall-Erik and the Snapphans
1985
Dödspolare
5/5
A man wakes up in his apartment after a wild party. His best buddy comes by. They find a woman on the couch showing no signs of life.
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Dödspolare
1999
Raymond - sju resor värre
0/0
The story of Raymond Olsson, unemployed cook, 40-years-old and living with his mother.
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Raymond - sju resor värre
Ute och cyklar
0/0
Lisa now lives a sober family life with daughter Elvira and boyfriend Anders. In addition, she will cycle the Vätternrundan together with her brother...
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Ute och cyklar
1997
Svensson, Svensson - The Movie
4.4/20
Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to mo...
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Svensson, Svensson - The Movie
2016
While We Live
7.2/5
Kandia, an African women in her fifties who has lived in Sweden for 30 years, decides to move back to Gambia. Her son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in...
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While We Live
2017
2060
5/2
2060 is an absurd, love story, a kind of prison drama in an elderly care home environment, set in a future dystopia. Upper-class woman Amanda is force...
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2060
1983
Kalabaliken i Bender
2.6/5
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village o...
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Kalabaliken i Bender
1996
A Kind of Hades
7/1
About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramat...
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A Kind of Hades
1971
Den byxlöse äventyraren
4/1
Lasse-Maja's (actually Lars Molin's) peculiar fate and adventure from his younger years until 1813, when he was sentenced to life imprisonment on Karl...
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Den byxlöse äventyraren
1998
Teratologens återkomst
0/0
"Assisted Living", by Nikanor Teratologen, originally released in Sweden 1992 as "Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen" immediately caused an uproar, due to...
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Teratologens återkomst
2015
Nylon
1/1
During a family weekend in the Swedish wilderness, 17-year-old Victor draws closer to his beautiful, cancer-ill aunt, but fails to notice the wary eye...
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Nylon
1997
Talk
5.75/20
Birger is old and retired from work, but he still goes back to work since he has nothing else to do. Back home he gets a rare visitor: a girl from Har...
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Talk
1995
Som löven i Vallombrosa
0/0
Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.
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Som löven i Vallombrosa
2018
Border
6.688/814
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront ter...
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Border
2002
K-G for Better or for Worse
3.5/2
K-G has lost his foothold in life. He has no energy, doesn't know what he wants, and cannot work anymore. His wife Birgitta doesn't understand him.
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K-G for Better or for Worse
2003
Headway
5/2
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...
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Headway
1986
Fläskfarmen
7.5/2
A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious foundation. They think it will be an easy and com...
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Fläskfarmen
1988
One Way Ticket
4.2/4
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...
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One Way Ticket
2011
The Best View
0/0
Recently retired Tord have had enough. He is convinced that there is no love in our society anymore. No solidarity. He decides to gas himself to death...
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The Best View
1997
The Girl in the Mist
0/0
Sima, a ten-year-old immigrant girl, is on her way home from school. In the thick fog she comes across an injured postman, who desperately wants her t...
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The Girl in the Mist
1974
Rymmare
0/0
Two inmates escape from prison. The escape affects not only the two runaways but also their relatives.
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Rymmare
2006
Susanne Goes Single
0/0
Susanne happens to drive over her husband on a camping site. This is the start of a very intensive day where she gets perspective over her life. A bla...
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Susanne Goes Single
1993
Rosenbaum - Målbrott
1/1
One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.
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Rosenbaum - Målbrott
1989
Husbonden
4.5/2
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...
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Husbonden
1978
Lyftet
6.2/5
Kennet, an incompetent thief and incorrigible petty criminal, longs to even 'the score,' which is not in his favor.
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Lyftet
2019
Awaiting Death
7/2
A man arrives at the hospital to see his father on his deathbed. He would like to have a last good time with him, but the father worries above all abo...
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Awaiting Death
1982
Bänken
0/0
A gentleman joins two alcoholics on a bench.
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Bänken
1998
Beck 06 - The Monster
5.4/29
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until...
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Beck 06 - The Monster
1995
Grænsen
0/0
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Grænsen
2009
Playing with Fire
0/0
Actor and director Ulf Friberg has filmed August Strindberg's play "Leka med elden". Or at least almost. The story of a middle-aged couple and their s...
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Playing with Fire
1997
The Disappearance of Finbar
6.8/5
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
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The Disappearance of Finbar
2024
Högläsning av Röde Orm
0/0
Directly from Borgeby Castle in Skåne, the fast-paced story Röde Orm is told by Frans G. Bengtsson. Among others, Sten Ljunggren, Angela Kovacs and Ma...
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Högläsning av Röde Orm
2025
Kronprinsen och tyrannens återkomst
0/0
In the small kingdom, snow is falling from a bright sky and the whole town is getting ready for the big winter wedding between Queen Lovisa and the fo...
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