Tore Svennberg

Born: 1858-02-28

Olof Teodor "Tore" Svennberg (28 February 1858 – 8 May 1941) was a Swedish actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than five decades. Born in Stockholm, Tore Svennberg made his stage debut at the Folkan Theatre in his hometown in 1877. From 1878 to 1891 he was engaged with various national touring theatre companies with actress Julia Håkansson and was from time to time cast by Swedish stage director Albert Ranft. At the Swedish Theatre, he played in several August Strindberg dramas: Gustav Vasa, starred in Erik XIV in 1899, A Dream Play in 1907 and The Dance of Death in 1919. He also appeared in many roles by Henrik Ibsen: as Helmer in A Doll's House in 1889, as Hjalmar Ekdahl in The Wild Duck in 1891 and as Borkman in John Gabriel Borkman in 1897. In 1920, Svennberg was engaged at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he later became director from 1922 to 1928. He managed to attract audiences by focusing on classics and foreign plays. Svennberg also appeared in a number of films, beginning in the Victor Sjöström-directed 1919 drama Sons of Ingmar, based on the novel Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf, and performed in his last film role at the age of 82 in Per Lindberg's 1940 drama Stål. He is possibly best recalled internationally for his role as Magnus Barring in the 1938 film A Woman's Face opposite actress Ingrid Bergman.


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The Phantom Carriage

as Georges
Released: 1921-01-01

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms...

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A Woman's Face

as Barring
Released: 1938-10-31

A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her...

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Sons of Ingmar

as Stor Ingmar Ingmarsson
Released: 1919-01-01

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

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Steel

as Anker
Released: 1940-02-18

The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition...

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The Monastery of Sendomir

as Count Starschensky
Released: 1920-01-01

Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to...

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Love's Crucible

as Mayor
Released: 1922-01-01

At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims...

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Vad veta väl männen?

as uncredited
Released: 1933-12-26

Hjalmar Björklund and his daughter Margit runs a second-hand bookshop in a small Swedish town.

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Frida's Songs

as P.A. Brickman
Released: 1930-09-15

Frida lives in a small idyllic town called Little Paris.

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The Dream Waltz

as uncredited
Released: 1929-12-26

This is the story of Olof Svensson who works as a streetcar conductor in Stockholm. In his free...

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A Wild Bird

as Richard Brenner
Released: 1921-10-18

A woman searches for the child she gave up at birth.

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Ocean Breakers

as Anders Nordeman
Released: 1935-02-17

Daniel has been forced by his father to become a priest. After graduating, he comes to a parish...

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