Sten Ljunggren

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Sten Ljunggren

Acting 87 October 16, 1938

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

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 an…

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Border

Border

6.7 2018 Movie
Together

Together

7.0 2000 Movie
Wallander

Wallander

6.9 2005 TV Show
Solsidan

Solsidan

7.0 2010 TV Show
Der Kommissar und das Meer

Der Kommissar und das Meer

5.6 2007 TV Show
The Best Intentions

The Best Intentions

7.0 1992 Movie
Skärgårdsdoktorn

Skärgårdsdoktorn

7.5 1997 TV Show
Swedes at Sea

Swedes at Sea

5.9 1988 Movie
Julkalendern

Julkalendern

7.1 1960 TV Show
Popular Music

Popular Music

6.3 2004 Movie
The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever

The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever

6.3 1984 Movie
Bäckström

Bäckström

5.9 2020 TV Show

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Drama Kings

    Movie Bernt

  2. 2025
    Off Track 2

    Movie

  3. 2025
    Kronprinsen och tyrannens återkomst

    Movie Läromästaren

  4. 2024
    Högläsning av Röde Orm

    Movie Self

  5. 2023
    Together 99

    Movie Birger

  6. 2022
    Arne Meets Death

    Movie Nyström

  7. 2022
    Burn All My Letters

    Movie Sven Stolpe (1988)

  8. 2022
    Göta Canal 4: Win or Disappear

    Movie Advokaten

  9. 2021
    Lysande Jönssonligan - 40 år

    Movie Fritz Mühlweiser (archive footage)

  10. 2020
    Mirakel

    TV show Narrator (voice)

  11. 2020
    Bäckström

    TV show Sven-Erik Johnson

  12. 2019
    Awaiting Death

    Movie The father

  13. 2018
    Border

    Movie Tina's Father

  14. 2017
    2060

    Movie Bläckan

  15. 2016
    While We Live

    Movie Olof

  16. 2015
    Nylon

    Movie Alfred

More credits
  1. 2015
    Champion

    Movie

  2. 2015
    For Better and Worse

    Movie Sven

  3. 2015
    Svenska tv-historier

    TV show Sten Ljunggren

  4. 2014
    The Fourth Man

    TV show Majoren

  5. 2013
    Barna Hedenhös uppfinner julen

    TV show Statsminister Erland

  6. 2013
    Nobody Owns Me

    Movie Grandfather

  7. 2013
    Us

    Movie Mäklaren

  8. 2013
    Wallander: The Troubled Man

    Movie Håkan von Enke

  9. 2013
    The Fjällbacka Murders: Friends for Life

    Movie

  10. 2012
    Fuck Up

    Movie Rebeccas far

  11. 2011
    Somewhere Else

    Movie Lennart

  12. 2011
    The Best View

    Movie Tord

  13. 2010
    Four More Years

    Movie Josef

  14. 2010
    Walk the Talk

    TV show Claes

  15. 2010
    Solsidan

    TV show Claes Prytz

  16. 2009
    Almost Elvis

    Movie Guardian angel

  17. 2009
    The Temptation of St. Tony

    Movie Herr Meister

  18. 2009
    Playing with Fire

    Movie

  19. 2008
    Innocently Convicted

    TV show

  20. 2007
    Der Kommissar und das Meer

    TV show Gunnar Winarve

  21. 2007
    Gynecologist in Askim

    TV show Sture

  22. 2007
    Gone with the Woman

    Movie Oberst Kalle

  23. 2006
    Suddenly

    Movie Sven

  24. 2006
    Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap

    Movie Narrator (voice)