Olof Thunberg

Olof Thunberg

Born: May 21, 1925
Died: February 24, 2020
in Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Fritz-Olof Thunberg was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1953. He appeared in a variety of films, often in a supporting role as a confident charmer, and is the voice of both Bamse and Agaton Sax in children's films and recordings.

Movies for Olof Thunberg...

Stall-Erik and the Snapphans
Title: Stall-Erik and the Snapphans
Released: March 1, 2025
Type: Movie
Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary premiere in 2025. Director, producer and lead actor is Anders Olofsson. Olofsson is entirely responsible for the financing of the project and the casting.
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I Am Greta
Title: I Am Greta
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.
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Bakomfilm Nattvardsgästerna
Title: Bakomfilm Nattvardsgästerna
Released: January 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Ingmar Bergman's silent home film showing behind the scenes of Winter Light
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Young Jönsson Gang: The Cornflakes Robbery
Title: Young Jönsson Gang: The Cornflakes Robbery
Character: Grandpa Elis
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
The young Jönsson gang's plan to steal "millions of filmisar" faces problem after problem before uncovering something much greater.
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Monopoly
Title: Monopoly
Character: Ernst Fröberg
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Egil (Knut Agnred) is just an ordinary painter. But one day, when he's about to paint a fence, incredible stuff starts to happen!
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Jeppe på berget
Title: Jeppe på berget
Character: The Valet
Released: December 25, 1995
Type: Movie
A Swedish version of Jeppe on the Hill. Jeppe is a drunken peasant. The Baron and his men play a joke on him.
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Title: Sjukan
Character: Österman
Released: September 15, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Tre kronor
Character: Kyrkoherden
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: TV
Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of Rederiet. The signature tune was written by Lasse Holm. The spin-off movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen! was based on two of the characters; Reine and Mimmi. The series had a dramatic ending where all the characters besides six were fatally wounded in a suicide bombing that took place at the local restaurant Tre Kronor. It was a priest himself who was the perpetrator. Two big cliffhangers in the series was when Hans Wästberg, played by Ulf Brunnberg, robbed the post office and shot his son Hans-Åke by mistake. Hans Wästberg was taken to prison and disappeared from the series after the second season. Season Three ended with Sirpa "Bimbo" Koskinen, the girlfriend of Hans-Åke Wästberg, died in a bus crash. Salongo played by Richard Sseruwagi was a refugee and a rich business man from Uganda who fell in love with a married police woman Lena Sjökvist played by Catharine Hansson and he later bought the restaurant Tre Kronor. Later in the series, Salongo buys another restaurant and he to disappeares from the series.
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Title: Sunes jul
Character: Farfar
Released: December 1, 1991
Type: TV
Sune, an 11 year old boy struggles with girl troubles and school while he and his goofy family prepares for Christmas with failed attempts at all of the usual December traditions.
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Bamse and His Most Christmassy Adventure
Title: Bamse and His Most Christmassy Adventure
Character: Bamse
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Bamse is a good-hearted bear whose grandmother cooks a special kind of honey, that gives him superpowers. When someone starts transforming the bear's friends into balloons and other things, Bamse and his friends Skalman (a turtle) and Lille Skutt (a rabbit) must journey through the woods to stop this person.
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Amorosa
Title: Amorosa
Character: Ernst von Krusenstjerna
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
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Title: Genombrottet
Character: folkpartist
Released: November 1, 1981
Type: TV
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Genombrottet
Title: Genombrottet
Character: Folkpartist
Released: November 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme.
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SOPOR
Title: SOPOR
Character: Narrator
Released: March 21, 1981
Type: Movie
One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
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Sverige åt svenskarna
Title: Sverige åt svenskarna
Released: July 31, 1980
Type: Movie
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
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Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
Title: Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
Character: Agaton Sax (voice)
Released: November 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Two villains escape from jail in London. They are planning an attack on Agaton Sax. Inspector Lispington and Sax are chasing the two bad guys, but the hunt is hampered by the villains have lookalikes.
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Bamse and the Flying Carpet
Title: Bamse and the Flying Carpet
Character: Narrator
Released: December 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Bamse and his friends Shellman and Little Skip end up in an adventure with a flying carpet. When there is a threat, Bamse eats a can of his "Thunder-Honey", turns into the world's strongest bear, and saves his friends.
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Title: Bamse - världens starkaste björn
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 23, 1972
Type: TV
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Ett Dockhem
Title: Ett Dockhem
Character: Rank
Released: December 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.
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Röda rummet 1979
Title: Röda rummet 1979
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
August Strindberg's "The Red Room" recreated to a science fiction world in Stockholm, a brutal, guarded and controlled existence under a total supremacy. Like in Metropolis or Airstrip One the citizens are directed to align themselves in the direction of what the higher power thinks is to their advantage. The government offices takes care of your every need.
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Title: Håll polisen utanför
Character: Brynolf
Released: September 6, 1969
Type: TV
A large number of jewelers in different central Swedish cities are exposed to burglary. The method elicits the police when the jewels were stolen without any door to the shops being broken up. When an elderly jeweler is murdered in his shop, the local police first conclude that it is another crime of the same offender, when another jeweler in the city got burglary the day before. But Sverre Sterner soon begins to suspect that completely different motives are behind the murder. The wires lead backwards in time around a putative drowning accident.
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Title: Markurells i Wadköping
Released: December 25, 1968
Type: TV
Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Alfred Doolittle
Released: June 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?
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Hönssoppa med korngryn
Title: Hönssoppa med korngryn
Character: Hymie Kossof
Released: February 12, 1968
Type: Movie
The first play in a trilogy by Arnold Wesker. The Hungarian-Jewish immigrant Sarah Kahn firmly holds her family in London's East End. She is also the center of power for the socialist engagement of the family, which is being tested by the events of Eastern Europe after the war.
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Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr
Title: Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr
Character: Polis Rudolf Rask
Released: December 26, 1966
Type: Movie
The White Rose (Kalle, Eva-Lotta and Anders) and the Red Rose (Sixten, Benka and Jonte) gangs are battling for a magical stone. The rest of the time Kalle is bored. That is why Kalle and his friends play pranks on Kalles aunts Hilda and Hulda. While Hulda is laughing, Hilda is very angry and calls the police, but Kalle is able to escape. Only a few time later Hilda is kidnapped and the kidnappers want a lot of money. The gangs of the White and Red Rose are now working together to find the kidnappers.
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The Bed
Title: The Bed
Character: (voice)
Released: February 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A causerie about the bed's history with a mixture of recorded sections and classical music.
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The Marriage Wrestler
Title: The Marriage Wrestler
Character: Herr Komissarie Vilja
Released: December 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
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Prins hatt under jorden
Title: Prins hatt under jorden
Character: The singer
Released: September 29, 1963
Type: Movie
A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Margot and becomes her lover. Margot, however, is not alone in recruiting Erik: even the young Li is interested in him.
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Adam och Eva
Title: Adam och Eva
Character: Boklund
Released: September 2, 1963
Type: Movie
Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous.
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Winter Light
Title: Winter Light
Character: Fredrik Blom
Released: February 11, 1963
Type: Movie
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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Det är hos mig han har varit
Title: Det är hos mig han har varit
Released: February 4, 1963
Type: Movie
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.
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Pärlemor
Title: Pärlemor
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
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Title: Julkalendern
Character: Dockröster
Released: November 27, 1960
Type: TV
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
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Title: Julkalendern
Character: Farfar
Released: November 27, 1960
Type: TV
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
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Sommar och syndare
Title: Sommar och syndare
Character: Ove
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.
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The Die Is Cast
Title: The Die Is Cast
Character: Didrik Cornelius
Released: February 15, 1960
Type: Movie
A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?
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Miss Chic
Title: Miss Chic
Character: Olofsson
Released: January 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
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Fridolf sticker opp!
Title: Fridolf sticker opp!
Character: Driving Instructor
Released: August 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate.
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The Minister of Uddarbo
Title: The Minister of Uddarbo
Character: Per Halvarsson
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.
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Med glorian på sned
Title: Med glorian på sned
Character: Liljeroth
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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En drömmares vandring
Title: En drömmares vandring
Character: Captain Stuart
Released: March 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.
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Sju vackra flickor
Title: Sju vackra flickor
Character: Director
Released: July 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!
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Private Entrance
Title: Private Entrance
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.
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Finnskogens folk
Title: Finnskogens folk
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside. He wants to bring real revival.
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Vildfåglar
Title: Vildfåglar
Character: The caretaker
Released: August 21, 1955
Type: Movie
"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.
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Skrattbomben
Title: Skrattbomben
Character: Villain
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people around laugh.
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Resan till dej
Title: Resan till dej
Character: Press photographer
Released: December 19, 1953
Type: Movie
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
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Vingslag i natten
Title: Vingslag i natten
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.
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I dur och skur
Title: I dur och skur
Character: Ström
Released: May 22, 1953
Type: Movie
"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.
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Two Women
Title: Two Women
Character: Dancing man at Spindeln
Released: November 18, 1947
Type: Movie
"Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.