Samuel Fröler

Samuel Fröler

Born: March 24, 1957
in Kalmar, Sweden
Per Samuel Fröler (born 24 March 1957) is a Swedish actor. His break-through was in the TV series Tre Kärlekar in 1989. He played the protagonist in the soap opera Skärgårdsdoktorn, and has also acted in several films. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards he was nominated for the Best Actor award for his role in The Best Intentions.

Fröler did the voice of Shrek when Shrek 2 was dubbed into Swedish. He also had a part in the American film Octane in 2003. He played one of the leading roles in the 2010 film Pure.

Movies for Samuel Fröler...

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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Title: The Beach Hotel
Character:  Werner Gyllenmark
Released: March 7, 2023
Type: TV
To celebrate his 60th birthday, Werner Gyllenmark holds a party at his beach hotel and invites his family, employees and even his arch-enemy, Egil Grip. But the event ends abruptly with an accident that shocks the entire town - and slowly but surely, explosive secrets emerge that some people will go to any lengths to keep hidden.
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The Outlaws
Title: The Outlaws
Character: Ingmar
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Set in the 1920s, two drifters are being chased by the police after a failed train robbery.
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The Owl
Title: The Owl
Released: October 28, 2020
Type: Movie
The mood in a teacher's lounge changes when the reason behind a colleague's nickname is brought to light.
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Title: Rebecka Martinsson
Character: Carl von Post
Released: March 8, 2017
Type: TV
Rebecka Martinsson from Kiruna has not really found herself despite her big successes at a law firm in Stockholm. When a friend from her childhood passes away, Rebecka returns to Kiruna where she's drawn into a thrilling hunt for a killer.
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Title: Nobel
Character: Gunnar Riiser
Released: September 25, 2016
Type: TV
Lieutenant Erling Riiser is on his way back to Norway after a long stay in Afghanistan. Much has gone wrong, several soldiers are missing from the Hercelus-plane. After only one day in Norway, Erling receives a text message saying an old acquaintance from Afghanistan is in Oslo - which can mean only one thing: A woman's life is in danger
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The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father and his Son
Title: The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father and his Son
Released: November 25, 2015
Type: Movie
The Hague, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Two ambitious lawyers face each other in the trial of Milorad Krstić, who’s accused of committing war crimes as a commander in the Bosnian war. The defender, Mikhail Finn, has managed to refute all the accusations against his client. Convinced of Krstic´s guilt, Catherine Lagrange, the prosecutor, summons a young man with incriminating evidence against Krstić. He claims to have been abandoned by his parents as a child and to have been one of Krstić’s soldiers. Defender Finn starts to investigate in order to verify the witness’ testimony – and soon encounters the young man’s family. Inspired by a true story.
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For Better and Worse
Title: For Better and Worse
Character: William
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
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Title: Svenska tv-historier
Character: Samuel Fröler
Released: January 5, 2015
Type: TV
Factual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.
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Liv & Ingmar
Title: Liv & Ingmar
Character: Ingmar Bergman (voice)
Released: September 28, 2012
Type: Movie
The 42 year long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
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Pax
Title: Pax
Character: Jon
Released: February 1, 2010
Type: Movie
PAX is a grand-scale drama. An intimate and powerful romantic film about seven people's encounter with themselves as life forces them into the raging storm. They all have someone waiting. PAX, the Latin word for peace, is also flight terminology for flight passengers. When flying in an airplane we are all "pax".
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Pure
Title: Pure
Character: Adam
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be already set in stone - until she discovers music. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s 'Requiem' at the Gothenburg Concert Hall that sends her reeling and opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she has to follow proves to be a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity.
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Headhunter
Title: Headhunter
Character: Roland Berger
Released: August 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Martin Vinge, former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships.
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Title: Der Kommissar und das Meer
Character: Kjell Eriksson
Released: December 21, 2007
Type: TV
Der Kommissar und das Meer is a German television series.
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Title: Der Kommissar und das Meer
Character: Alfred Palmgren
Released: December 21, 2007
Type: TV
Der Kommissar und das Meer is a German television series.
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Exit
Title: Exit
Character: Morgan Nordenstråle
Released: October 6, 2006
Type: Movie
There is a thin line between money and loyalty. Thomas Skepphult runs an investment company, and is arrested for the murder of his business partner when his fingerprint is found on the murder weapon. When he tries to call his lawyer, the phone is answered by someone who he thought had committed suicide years ago.
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Lovisa och Carl Michael
Title: Lovisa och Carl Michael
Character: Åhlström
Released: December 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Bellman and his wife Lovisa live in a loving marriage, but in extreme poverty. They struggle to keep the family together and Lovisa tries to persuade Bellman to perform in order to earn a livelihood.
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Title: 100 Höjdare
Released: September 5, 2004
Type: TV
100 höjdare was a Swedish TV series which was produced and aired on Kanal 5. Six seasons of the show were produced and it ran from 2004 to 2008. It was hosted by the comedy duo Filip Hammar & Fredrik Wikingsson. In the first three seasons the hosts presented funny moments, often in the form of video clips, listing their 100 all-time favorites. In season two and three they also discuss the clips with celebrity guests. By season four the format changed and instead of showing clips, Filip and Fredrik made impromptu interviews with people, often in their homes.
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Title: Seks som oss
Released: March 4, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Seks som oss
Character: Carsten
Released: March 4, 2004
Type: TV
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Octane
Title: Octane
Character: Marek Wilson
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat, down an ominous highway in the middle of the night. After they pick up a weird teenage hitchhiker, their journey goes awry. Nat decides to give her mom the slip and runs off with the hitchhiker at a rest stop. In a desperate search to find her daughter, Senga learns that Nat has been drawn into an evil cult.
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Wolf Summer
Title: Wolf Summer
Character: Markus
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: Movie
The young Norwegian girl Kim almost gets killed after falling from a hillside. She finds shelter and stumbles upon the territory of a wolf and her puppy. When she finds out three shepherds are out to kill the wolf, she decides to get across the border to Sweden, where they don't hunt for wolves.
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Executive Protection
Title: Executive Protection
Character: Sven Persson
Released: August 17, 2001
Type: Movie
After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers, and then threatening Sven and his family. With no where else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.
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Det grovmaskiga nätet
Title: Det grovmaskiga nätet
Character: Jan Miller
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: Movie
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Reply with Photo
Title: Reply with Photo
Character: Lars
Released: August 20, 1999
Type: Movie
The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far more complicated than Lars could ever have imagined.
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Ögat
Title: Ögat
Character: Fredrik
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Fredrik is a director for a company that has developed a camera that can be operated from a distance to inspect pipes. He is so obsessed about his girlfriend Ingrid that he arranges his own fake suicide so that he can check that she mourns his death properly. With a set of cameras in their house he can follow every step she takes.
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Title: Skärgårdsdoktorn
Character: Johan Steen
Released: October 13, 1997
Type: TV
TV series about the doctor Johan Steen who returns to Sweden after working in Somalia. He takes over his father in law's practice in the archipelago and together with his daughter Wilma, they try to make a new life for themselves.
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Their Frozen Dream
Title: Their Frozen Dream
Character: Nils Strindberg (voice)
Released: October 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).
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A Scent of Paradise
Title: A Scent of Paradise
Character: Nils von Ekelöw
Released: August 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.
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Close Encounter
Title: Close Encounter
Character: Rolf
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
After the divorce 14-year old Nina lives with her father, a UFO-observer. He's not the warmest of fathers, which troubles their relationship. One night, when he is out looking for aliens, she takes his car to go to a party, but crashes it. Her father mistakes the crash for aliens landing. —Kurt Aerden
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Gåten Knut Hamsun
Title: Gåten Knut Hamsun
Character: August Strindberg
Released: December 26, 1996
Type: Movie
What is the answer to the riddle. What made the famous author, nobel prize winner, Knut Hamsun to support Hitler? 1945. The famous writer Knut Hamsun looks back to his youth., and compares his life with two of his works "Hunger" and "Mysteries".
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Private Confessions
Title: Private Confessions
Character: Henrik
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.
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Between Summers
Title: Between Summers
Character: Mikael
Released: August 31, 1995
Type: Movie
Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief against her husband. Since none of them know what to do with their feelings, they start to drift apart.
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The Best Intentions
Title: The Best Intentions
Character: Henrik Bergman
Released: May 24, 1992
Type: Movie
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
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Title: The Best Intentions
Character: Henrik Bergman
Released: December 25, 1991
Type: TV
The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had a difficult marriage and life in rural Sweden. Bergman's father was a pastor and poor; his mother from a well to do cultured family. It ends with the birth of Ingmar.
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Title: Tre kärlekar
Character: Gösta Nilsson
Released: March 13, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: På spåret
Character: Tävlande
Released: September 5, 1987
Type: TV
På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.