Ingvar Hirdwall
Birthday: 1934-12-05
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Biography: 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.
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Miffo
Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite unintere...
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Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness
A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his...
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Daybreak
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, becaus...
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Man on the Roof
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The Miracle in Valby
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Deadline Torp
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The Potato Seller
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. I...
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Raven's End
In 1936 Sweden, a teenager drifts through life in his small town, hoping that a novel about the neig...
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Beck 44 - Rage Room
A man is found brutally murdered at a running track in the woods. At the same time, Josef resumes th...
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Beck 43 - Haunted by the Past
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Beck 45 - 58 Minutes
Alex Beijer will be on morning TV where the entrepreneur Tomas Tormalm will also participate. But in...
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Beck 46 - The Crying Cop
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The Individual Citizen
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The Tattooed Widow
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Kent - ett porträtt av Kent Andersson
Documentary about actor and writer Kent Andersson for his 70th birthday....
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Children's Island
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Offside
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Like It Never Was Before
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The Man from Majorca
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Mouth to Mouth
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Pelikanen
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Savannen
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Flotten
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Beck 22 - The Weak Link
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Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance
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Beck 26 - Buried Alive
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Beck 16 - The Last Witness
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Beck 17 - The Scorpion
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Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm
When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald La...
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1939
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The Secret
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Christmas Oratorio
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Midvinterduell
The film depicts a stubborn farmer who refuses to adapt to new rules that require him to leave his m...
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With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man...
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Wallander: The Troubled Man
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Hemmet
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Sandlådan
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Beck 33 - End of the Road
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Beck 11 - The Cartel
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Beck 12 - The Loner
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Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar
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Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball
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Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting
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Beck 24 - In the Name of God
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The Zone
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Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
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Beck 47 - The Death Trap
Police trainee Vilhelm Beck is out on an internship with his supervisor when, during a routine burgl...
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Beck 48 - Quid Pro Quo
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Beck 49 - Inferno
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Beck 50 - Deadlock
The Beck group is called out to investigate the brutal murder of a man in his own house and Vilhelm,...
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Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl
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Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye
In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over...
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Beck 03 - White Nights
When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is S...
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Miraklet i Viskan
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Beck 29 - Invasion
The bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be identified. W...
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Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders
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Beck 27 - Room 302
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Beck 28 - The Family
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Stall-Erik and the Snapphans
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För vänskaps skull
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Beck 32 - Steinar
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Beck: The Last Day
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Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy
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Beck - The Man with the Icons
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Kunglig toilette
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Tartuffe - hycklaren
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The Caretaker
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My Love Is Like a Rose
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Trängningen
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A Kind of Hades
About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. ...
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Beck 35 - Your Own Blood
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Beck 36 - The Thin Ice
Simon Lindström, the popular coach of a suburban junior hockey team is found stabbed to death. Does ...
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Beck 37 - Without Intent
The Beck group, with Alex Beijer as new group manager, is given a case where a 12-year-old girl foun...
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Gustav III
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. ...
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Beck 38 - The Devil's Advocate
The murder of a restaurant owner who is gunned down in front of a diner full of customers has unexpe...
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Onkel Vanja
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The es...
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En kvinnas huvud
"Th Head of a Woman" - "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one want...
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Ondskans år
Spring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year old...
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Beck 31 - Gunvald
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notori...
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A Dream Play
"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to prob...
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Fläskfarmen
A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious...
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Honungsvargar
"Honey Wolves" - The young girl Mignon spend her life within art circles and among the quasi-intelle...
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Dom unga örnarna
Five men with roots in a political youth organization reunite after 30 years for a collective manife...
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Rikedom
Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ......
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Beck 23 - The Silent Scream
Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a n...
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Beck 19 - The Vulture
Swedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's tea...
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Beck 06 - The Monster
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefca...
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Beck 07 - The Money Man
A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's u...
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Beck 20 - The Lawyer
The murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company was b...
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Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been rem...
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Jackpot
Kurre works under the table for a moving company. When he gets injured on the job his boss turns his...
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Beck 39 - Undercover
A young gang member is found dead, and the Beck group's investigation indicates that a drug network ...
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Beck 41 - Death in Samarra
A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just after a...
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Beck - Den förlorade sonen
A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out tha...
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Beck 40 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt
During a police intervention, a macabre discovery is made in the trunk of a car. Josef and Oskar fin...
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Beck 14 - The Advertising Man
A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems ...
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Beck - bakom kulisserna
In the documentary Beck: Behind the Scenes we get an exclusive insight into the production of the la...
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