Thommy Berggren
Acting
Biography
Thommy Berggren, né Tommy William Berggren (born 12 August 1937) is a Swedish actor. He is known for having starred in several films directed by Bo Widerberg, and was often considered as one of the foremost Swedish film and theatre actors from the early 1960s to the mid-2000s when he retired.
Place of Birth: Mölndal, Göteborg och Bohus län, Sweden
Known For
Min sanning
Gösta Berlings saga
Benny och kulturhuset
A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had a background as an actor and director. In connection with a media hunt he resigned and later took his own life.
The Father
A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.
Bergman: A Year in a Life
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
Raven's End
In 1936 Sweden, a teenager drifts through life in his small town, hoping that a novel about the neighborhood he grew up and lives in will reverse the fortunes of his family.
Being Bo Widerberg
The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him.
The Baby Carriage
A tale of a young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.
Elvira Madigan
Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation.
Joe Hill
In the early 1900s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to go on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
Filmography
as Self
as Self
as Self
as sig själv
as Self
as Self
as Bill
as The Emperor
as (archive footage)
as Vanja
as Gustav III
as Erik Bergman
as Ryttmästaren
as Edoardo
as Gösta Berling
as August Strindberg
as Axel
as Self
as Dr. Petypon
as Kristoffer
as Giliap
as Joe Hill
as Sergei Nikovitch
as Jean
as Colett
as Sixten Sparre
as Roland Jung
as Actor
as Self
as Anders
as Stig
as Björn
as Jan Waebel