Sven Hugo Borg

Sven Hugo Borg

Born: July 26, 1896
Died: February 19, 1981
in Vinslöv, Skåne län, Sweden
Sven Hugo Borg was born in Vinslöv, Skåne län, Sweden. Early in his career, Borg was a secretary with the Swedish Consulate in Los Angeles. While working at the consulate he met the actress Greta Garbo who had recently arrived in Hollywood. Garbo asked Borg to be her interpreter for an upcoming movie, to which he readily agreed. He served as Garbo's interpreter from 1925 to 1929.

After interpreting for Greta, Borg decided to pursue acting as a career. He had done some dramatic work on the Swedish stage. He continued to remain with the consulate until the late 1930s.

Borg became much in demand during World War II Hollywood films, playing both Nazi officers and Scandinavian resistance fighters. Throughout his acting career, Borg was an actor who portrayed a wide range of many different characters, e.g.Sverre-King of Norway in The Crusades.

He died in 1981 at the age of 84 in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Sven Hugo Borg...

Captain Pirate
Title: Captain Pirate
Character: Swede
Released: August 27, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
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Reunion in Reno
Title: Reunion in Reno
Character: Swedish Waiter
Released: October 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
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Santa Fe
Title: Santa Fe
Character: 'Swede' Swanstrom
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
Title: Fortunes of Captain Blood
Character: Swede
Released: May 19, 1950
Type: Movie
When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
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Annie Was a Wonder
Title: Annie Was a Wonder
Character: Gus
Released: January 29, 1949
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook and housekeeper in his family's home while he was growing up.
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Address Unknown
Title: Address Unknown
Character: Angry German at Play (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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Appointment in Berlin
Title: Appointment in Berlin
Character: Stockholm Waiter (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1943
Type: Movie
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Norwegian Seaman (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: German Guard (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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They Came to Blow Up America
Title: They Came to Blow Up America
Character: Cmdr. Ullrich Hauser
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: German Soldier
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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The Devil with Hitler
Title: The Devil with Hitler
Character: Gestapo Guard (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: German Captain (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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They Raid by Night
Title: They Raid by Night
Character: Dalberg
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
The British Commandos send Bob Owen to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken and Harry. Inga, a Norwegian girl to whom Falken was once engaged but who has become the sweetheart of Oberst Von Ritter, betrays their hiding place.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Character: Olaf
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: German Soldier (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Dangerously They Live
Title: Dangerously They Live
Character: U-Boat Under Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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Law of the Timber
Title: Law of the Timber
Character: Olaf (as Sven-Hogo Borg)
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: Swede
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Title: Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Character: Kurt F. Henck
Released: May 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade. But, Jim Dana, a U.S. government undercover agent, has his suspicions that the reason may have been in order to acquire the ranch from Buzzy and his older sister, Ruth. Dana thinks the ranch may have a large deposit of a mineral useful to a foreign country. His suspicions are confirmed when a couple of guys with heavy-accents show up inquiring about the property.
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Comrade X
Title: Comrade X
Character: Streetcar Passenger
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Little Nellie Kelly
Title: Little Nellie Kelly
Character: Immigrant at Citizenship Ceremony (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Sven
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Captain Caution
Title: Captain Caution
Character: Sailor
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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Death Rides the Range
Title: Death Rides the Range
Character: Baron Starkoff
Released: December 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A wounded archaeologist crawls into the camp of three kindhearted cowboys. When the cowboys bring him to a nearby trading post, he's murdered after he lets slip a secret about a hidden cave. Investigating his death, Ken and his friends encounter a land dispute between a pair of neighboring ranches, an arrogant German baron and a mysterious shack that houses a great secret.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Chauffeur
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Crew Member
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Masseuse
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Theodora Goes Wild
Title: Theodora Goes Wild
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Logger (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
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The Crusades
Title: The Crusades
Character: Sverre, the Norse King
Released: August 21, 1935
Type: Movie
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
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Let's Fall in Love
Title: Let's Fall in Love
Character: Eric
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
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Rose-Marie
Title: Rose-Marie
Character: Hudson
Released: February 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes.