Ingvar Hirdwall

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Stockholm, Sweden, 1934-12-05

Died: 2023-04-06

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Trängningen	Fredriksson	0
2	1963	Raven's End	Sixten	70
3	1963	My Love Is Like a Rose	Pajen	40
4	1965	För vänskaps skull		0
5	1969	Berndt och Anita	Berndt	0
6	1972	Flotten	Freddy	0
7	1972	Hemmet	Hjalmar Augustsson	0
8	1972	Sandlådan	Robert	0
9	1974	Gustav III	Horn	0
10	1976	Man on the Roof	Åke Eriksson	72
11	1978	Rikedom	John	0
12	1980	Jackpot	Sven	0
13	1980	A Dream Play	Affischören	80
14	1980	Children's Island	Stig Utler	63
15	1982	Dom unga örnarna	Gunnar Grävmo	0
16	1982	Pelikanen		0
17	1983	Midvinterduell	Egon	62
18	1983	A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon	Gustaf Edgren	0
19	1983	Savannen	Operator	0
20	1984	The Man from Majorca	Fors	66
21	1986	Fläskfarmen	Monty	75
22	1986	Kunglig toilette	Restaurateur	64
23	1987	Ondskans år	Dr. Herbert Ahlström	0
24	1989	The Miracle in Valby	Petra's Father	51
25	1989	1939	Annika's father	47
26	1990	Honungsvargar	Axel	0
27	1992	KvällsPressen	Sockander	70
28	1994	Onkel Vanja	Teljegin	0
29	1995	Like It Never Was Before	Strange Man	54
30	1996	The Zone	Erik Lagerlöf	72
31	1996	The Potato Seller	Johansson	57
32	1996	Christmas Oratorio	Edman	56
33	1996	A Kind of Hades	The old man	40
34	1997	Tartuffe - hycklaren	The king	60
35	1997	En kvinnas huvud	Düber	0
36	1997	Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy	Grannen	63
37	1997	Beck - The Man with the Icons	Grannen	56
38	1998	Beck 03 - White Nights	The Neighbor	63
39	1998	The Tattooed Widow	Egon Andersson	66
40	1998	Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye	The Neighbor	61
41	1998	Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl	The Neighbor	54
42	1998	Beck 06 - The Monster	Grannen	55
43	1998	Beck 07 - The Money Man	Grannen	59
44	1998	Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness	Grannen	68
45	2001	Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance	Grannen	65
46	2001	Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face	Grannen	58
47	2001	Beck 11 - The Cartel	Grannen	56
48	2002	Beck 12 - The Loner	Grannen	59
49	2002	Beck 13 - Sender Unknown	The Neighbor	56
50	2002	Beck 14 - The Advertising Man	Grannen	59
51	2002	Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball	Grannen	60
52	2002	Beck 16 - The Last Witness	Grannen	64
53	2003	Miffo	Karl Henrik	52
54	2003	Let's Play House	Roland	60
55	2003	Daybreak	Knut	62
56	2004	With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof	Self	0
57	2004	The Caretaker	Davies	0
58	2004	Kent - ett porträtt av Kent Andersson	Self	0
59	2005	Deadline Torp	Birger Johansen	47
60	2005	Mouth to Mouth	Mats's father John	46
61	2006	The Individual Citizen	Gunnar Bergström	51
62	2006	Beck 17 - The Scorpion	Grannen	60
63	2006	Offside	Boston	54
64	2006	Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar	Grannen	61
65	2007	Beck 19 - The Vulture	Grannen	54
66	2007	Beck 20 - The Lawyer	Grannen	60
67	2007	Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting	Grannen	54
68	2007	Beck 22 - The Weak Link	Grannen	56
69	2007	Beck 23 - The Silent Scream	Grannen	68
70	2007	Beck 24 - In the Name of God	Grannen	58
71	2009	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Dirch Frode	75
72	2009	Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm	Grannen	55
73	2009	The Secret	Self	80
74	2010	Beck 26 - Buried Alive	Grannen	60
75	2013	Wallander: The Troubled Man	Lundberg	57
76	2015	Beck 27 - Room 302	Valdemar	60
77	2015	Beck 28 - The Family	Grannen	57
78	2015	Beck 29 - Invasion	Grannen	51
79	2015	Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders	Grannen	52
80	2015	Miraklet i Viskan	Halvar	53
81	2016	Beck 31 - Gunvald	Grannen	56
82	2016	Beck 32 - Steinar	Grannen	55
83	2016	Beck 33 - End of the Road	Grannen	52
84	2016	Beck: The Last Day	Grannen	54
85	2018	Beck 35 - Your Own Blood	Grannen	48
86	2018	Beck 36 - The Thin Ice	Grannen	43
87	2018	Beck 37 - Without Intent	Grannen	48
88	2018	Beck 38 - The Devil's Advocate	Grannen	55
89	2020	Beck 39 - Undercover	Grannen	47
90	2020	Beck 40 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt	Grannen	53
91	2021	Beck 41 - Death in Samarra	Grannen	52
92	2021	Beck - Den förlorade sonen	Grannen	57
93	2021	Beck 43 - Haunted by the Past	Grannen	52
94	2022	Beck 44 - Rage Room	Grannen	59
95	2022	Beck 45 - 58 Minutes	Grannen	56
96	2022	Beck 46 - The Crying Cop	Grannen	62
97	2022	Beck 47 - The Death Trap	Grannen	59
98	2023	Beck 48 - Quid Pro Quo	Grannen	60
99	2023	Beck 49 - Inferno	Grannen	64
100	2023	Beck 50 - Deadlock	Grannen	76
101		Stall-Erik and the Snapphans	Måns	0
102	2024	Beck - bakom kulisserna	Grannen (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	Julkalendern	Pettson	71
2	1978	Svenska noveller	John	0
3	1979	Godnatt, jord		0
4	1981	Babels hus	Bernt Svensson, Primus son	67
5	1981	Drottning Kristina	Axel Oxenstierna	0
6	1981	The Guldbagge Awards	Self - Best Actor winner	55
7	1985	August Strindberg: Ett liv	Läraren	60
8	1985	Korset	Police Inspector Jörgen Wennström	0
9	1986	Sammansvärjningen	Liljensparre	80
10	1989	Tre kärlekar	Egon Nilsson	90
11	1992	Kvällspressen	Bengt Sockander	50
12	1992	Kejsarn av Portugallien	Jan	70
13	1993	Tomtemaskinen	Pettson	60
14	1996	The Zone	Erik Lagerlöf	90
15	1997	Skärgårdsdoktorn	Ewe Tannander	75
16	1998	Ivar Kreuger	Statsminister Ekman	60
17	1999	Beck	Grannen	67
18	2001	Anderssons älskarinna	Erik, fadern	43
19	2005	Wallander	Lundberg	69

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