Ingvar Hirdwall
Ingvar Hirdwall (December 5, 1934 – April 6, 2023) was born in Stockholm, and was educated at Gothenburg City Theatre stage school 1957-1960. Since the early 1960s until his death he has been active as an actor in many films, TV series and on theatrical stages, mainly Stockholms stadsteater. He is well known in Sweden, was often portraying obstinate or strange characters, like the eccentric neighbor in the many Swedish Martin Beck TV-movies made from 1997 on. He was also often in director Lars Molin's productions. In December 1993, Hirdwall played the leading role in the Swedish TV company SVT's annual children's Christmas “Advent calendar” - Tomtemaskinen (The mechanical santa), one of the Pettson and Findus stories by Sven Nordqvist - with one 15-minute part shown each day up until Christmas Eve. Hirdwall played the character of Pettson. Hirdwall received the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Actor at the 17th Guldbagge Awards for Barnens ö (Children's Island) and the Thaliapriset prize in 1993. Hirdwall was married to the actress Marika Lindström. They have two children, director Jacob Hirdwall and actress Agnes Hirdwall.
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female...
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Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm
as GrannenWhen the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect...
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The Man from Majorca
as ForsIn the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops...
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Man on the Roof
as Åke ErikssonDetective Martin Beck investigates the grisly murder of a police Lieutenant in his hospital...
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Beck: The Last Day
as GrannenTwo traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding. When the car...
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Raven's End
as SixtenIn 1936 Sweden, a teenager drifts through life in his small town, hoping that a novel about the...
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Beck 11 - The Cartel
as GrannenIt's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on...
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Children's Island
as Stig UtlerReine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in...
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Beck 22 - The Weak Link
as GrannenA teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to...
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Beck 38 - The Devil's Advocate
as GrannenThe murder of a restaurant owner who is gunned down in front of a diner full of customers has...
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Miffo
as Karl HenrikTobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite...
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Offside
as BostonIn the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing...
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Beck - Den förlorade sonen
as GrannenA jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out...
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Beck 32 - Steinar
as GrannenAn unidentified body is found in the remains left after a fire in a trailer at a run-down...
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Beck 28 - The Family
as GrannenWhen a well-known crime boss is murdered by a sniper in front of his family, Beck and his team...
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Beck - The Man with the Icons
as GrannenBeck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish...
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Like It Never Was Before
as Strange ManThe Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and...
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Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball
as GrannenMother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon,...
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Beck 07 - The Money Man
as GrannenA homosexual police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs...
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Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness
as GrannenA serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and...
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Beck 48 - Quid Pro Quo
as GrannenA man is found dead at a flea market in southern Stockholm. It looks like an ordinary robbery...
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Beck 43 - Haunted by the Past
as GrannenA body is found in the water near Liljeholmen. The body belongs to a 39-year-old Danish citizen...
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Beck 16 - The Last Witness
as GrannenA series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up...
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Beck 06 - The Monster
as GrannenA bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the...
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The Individual Citizen
as Gunnar BergströmInsurance Director Stig Roxby is worth a hundred times more than an ordinary high school...
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Beck 14 - The Advertising Man
as GrannenA man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this...
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Beck 47 - The Death Trap
as GrannenPolice trainee Vilhelm Beck is out on an internship with his supervisor when, during a routine...
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Beck 35 - Your Own Blood
as GrannenA man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way...
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Beck 23 - The Silent Scream
as GrannenTwo young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of...
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Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
as The NeighborMartin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an...
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Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy
as GrannenA man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the...
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Beck 20 - The Lawyer
as GrannenThe murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company...
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Beck 50 - Deadlock
as GrannenThe Beck group is called out to investigate the brutal murder of a man in his own house and...
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Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye
as The NeighborIn this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all...
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The Potato Seller
as JohanssonIn this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still...
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Beck 41 - Death in Samarra
as GrannenA candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just...
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Wallander: The Troubled Man
as LundbergWallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he...
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Beck 31 - Gunvald
as GrannenAn investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a...
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Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting
as GrannenAfter a woman buys a Japanese shunga painting from an auction and later is found murdered in a...
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The Miracle in Valby
as Petra's Father14 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio...
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Beck 40 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt
as GrannenDuring a police intervention, a macabre discovery is made in the trunk of a car. Josef and Oskar...
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Beck 44 - Rage Room
as GrannenA man is found brutally murdered at a running track in the woods. At the same time, Josef...
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Daybreak
as KnutSweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane,...
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Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl
as The NeighborInspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from...
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Beck 19 - The Vulture
as GrannenSwedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's...
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Beck 33 - End of the Road
as GrannenThree brutal murders are committed in a house in a quiet suburb. The victims are a former police...
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Beck 27 - Room 302
as ValdemarThe body of a young woman is found in a Stockholm hotel room. It appears that she has been...
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Beck 45 - 58 Minutes
as GrannenAlex Beijer will be on morning TV where the entrepreneur Tomas Tormalm will also participate....
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Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders
as GrannenAn elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm and it turns out that she suffered from an...
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My Love Is Like a Rose
as PajenA middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the...
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Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face
as GrannenA man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been...
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Beck 03 - White Nights
as The NeighborWhen the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver...
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Beck 36 - The Thin Ice
as GrannenSimon Lindström, the popular coach of a suburban junior hockey team is found stabbed to death....
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Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar
as GrannenA small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but...
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Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance
as GrannenTwo patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of...
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Beck 17 - The Scorpion
as GrannenAn abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being...
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Beck 29 - Invasion
as GrannenThe bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be...
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Beck 24 - In the Name of God
as GrannenA paparazzi photographer gets brutally murdered in Stockholm. His apartment is searched and the...
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Beck 49 - Inferno
as GrannenNothing is the way it should be in the Beck group. Josef is suspended, pending an internal...
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Beck 12 - The Loner
as GrannenAn Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and...
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Beck 37 - Without Intent
as GrannenThe Beck group, with Alex Beijer as new group manager, is given a case where a 12-year-old girl...
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1939
as Annika's fatherWhen the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to...
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Beck - bakom kulisserna
as Grannen (archive footage)In the documentary Beck: Behind the Scenes we get an exclusive insight into the production of...
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Beck 26 - Buried Alive
as GrannenIn a playground in the centre of the urban idyll, the police find a buried wooden box containing...
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Midvinterduell
as EgonThe film depicts a stubborn farmer who refuses to adapt to new rules that require him to leave...
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Christmas Oratorio
as EdmanThe 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some...
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The Tattooed Widow
as Egon AnderssonEster is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an...
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Beck 39 - Undercover
as GrannenA young gang member is found dead, and the Beck group's investigation indicates that a drug...
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A Kind of Hades
as The old manAbout the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite...
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Tartuffe - hycklaren
as The kingTartuffe is a cheeky cheater and traitor who succeeds in fooling and terrorizing Orgon and his...
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Mouth to Mouth
as Mats's father JohnThe teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a...
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The Secret
as SelfCarl-Ivar Nilsson was an actor in the series "Hem till byn", but he carried a big secret that...
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Gustav III
as HornBased on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in...
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Kunglig toilette
as RestaurateurThe King is about to visit a small town, and everyone is excited to prepare for the event....
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Beck 46 - The Crying Cop
as GrannenThe police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A...
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Onkel Vanja
as TeljeginA retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena....
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Ondskans år
as Dr. Herbert AhlströmSpring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year...
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The Caretaker
as DaviesMick and his brother Aston live alone together in a West London house until one night Aston...
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Miraklet i Viskan
as HalvarBjarne runs a moving company with his wife Malin, but it is shaky and they need to borrow money....
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A Dream Play
as Affischören"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to...
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Kent - ett porträtt av Kent Andersson
as SelfDocumentary about actor and writer Kent Andersson for his 70th birthday.
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Fläskfarmen
as MontyA bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a...
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För vänskaps skull
as uncreditedA young woman gets tired of society's patriarchal order and women's sexual bondage.
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Flotten
as FreddyA play about a group of people drifting on the raft Sweden towards the Island of Bliss
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Jackpot
as SvenA TV movie about Kurre, a moving company and dirty money.
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Rikedom
as JohnJohan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ...
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Honungsvargar
as Axel"Honey Wolves" - The young girl Mignon spend her life within art circles and among the...
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Dom unga örnarna
as Gunnar GrävmoFive men with roots in a political youth organization reunite after 30 years for a collective...
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Deadline Torp
as Birger JohansenOn September 28th, 1994, two Swedish men robbed a bank in the small Norwegian town of Larvik....
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Hemmet
as uncreditedA satire of the welfare society showing the mechanical nature of the elderly care.
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Ivar Kreuger
as uncreditedIvar Kreuger was a businessman who influenced a whole world and whose fate is still shrouded in...
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Sandlådan
as uncreditedWhat will happen to the kids in the sandbox? The ones digging in the same sand, how will they...
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Trängningen
as FredrikssonYouth criminals Fredriksson and Bergström are taken to the police station on suspicion of...
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En kvinnas huvud
as Düber"Th Head of a Woman" - "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one...
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Pelikanen
as uncreditedIt has just been a funeral when the daughter and son-in-law return from their honeymoon. Now the...
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Beck
as GrannenBeck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.
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Wallander
as LundbergWallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels...
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Julkalendern
as PettsonAn annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
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Kejsarn av Portugallien
as JanA Swedish farmer gets crazy and imagines that his daughter has become emperor of Portugallien...
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Skärgårdsdoktorn
as Ewe TannanderTV series about the doctor Johan Steen who returns to Sweden after working in Somalia. He takes...
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August Strindberg: Ett liv
as LärarenA mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August...
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Kvällspressen
as Bengt SockanderThe story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its...
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The Zone
as Erik LagerlöfThe Military evacuates a zone in the Lapland mountains, under the pretext that there is an...
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