Lars Ingvar Hirdwall is a Swedish

Sweden

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 actor

Actor

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. He was educated at Gothenburg City Theatre

Gothenburg City Theatre

Gothenburg City Theatre opened in 1934 at Götaplatsen square in Gothenburg, Sweden. The theatre was drawn by Carl Bergsten who gave the exterior a Neo-Classical look with a touch of Streamline Moderne. The critics thought it to be a too old-fashioned building – the International Style had had a big...

 stage school 1957-1960. Since the early 1960s 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, often portraying obstinate or strange characters, like the eccentric neighbor in the many Swedish Martin Beck

Martin Beck

Martin Beck is a fictional Swedish police detective who is the main character in a series of ten novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, collectively titled The Story of a Crime...

 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

Sveriges Television

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 annual children's Christmas “Advent calendar

Advent calendar

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” - Tomtemaskinen (The mechanical santa), one of the Pettson and Findus

Pettson and Findus

Pettson and Findus is a series of children’s books written and illustrated by Swedish author Sven Nordqvist. The books feature an old farmer and his cat who live in a small ramshackle farmhouse in the countryside...

 stories by Sven Nordqvist

Sven Nordqvist

Sven Nordqvist is a Swedish writer and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about an old farmer, Pettson, and his talented cat, Findus.- Background :...

 - with one 15-minute part shown each day up until Christmas Eve. Hirdwall played the character of Pettson.

Hirdwall received the Swedish Guldbagge Award

Guldbagge Award

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 as Best Actor in 1981 for Barnens ö (Children's Island) and the Thaliapriset

Thaliapriset

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 prize in 1993.

Hirdwall is married to the actress Marika Lindström

Marika Lindström

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. They have two children, director Jacob Hirdwall and actress Agnes Hirdwall.

Filmography

• Beck – Levande begravd (2009)
• Beck – I stormens öga (2009)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
• 2009 – Stormen
• Beck – I Guds namn (2007)
• Beck – Det tysta skriket (2007)
• Beck – Den svaga länken (2007)
• Beck – Den japanska shungamålningen (2007)
• Beck – Gamen (2007)
• Beck – Advokaten (2006)
• Beck – Flickan i jordkällaren (2006)
• Skarpt läge
  Skarpt läge
  Beck – Skarpt läge is a 2006 film about the Swedish police detective Martin Beck directed by Harald Hamrell.- Cast :*Peter Haber as Martin Beck*Mikael Persbrandt as Gunvald Larsson*Måns Nathanaelson as Oskar Bergman...
  
  (2006)
• Offside (2006)
• Den enskilde medborgaren (2006)
• 2006 – Möbelhandlarens dotter
• Mouth to Mouth (2005)
• Mamma pappa barn (2003)
• Miffo (2003)
• Om jag vänder mig om (2003)
• Beck – Sista vittnet (2002)
• Beck – Pojken i glaskulan (2002)
• Beck – Annonsmannen (2002)
• Beck – Okänd avsändare (2002)
• Beck – Enslingen (2002)
• Beck – Kartellen (2002)
• Beck – Mannen med ikonerna (2001)
• Beck – Hämndens pris (2001)
• 1998 – Ivar Kreuger
  Ivar Kreuger
  Ivar Kreuger was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. In 1908 Kreuger co-founded the construction company Kreuger & Toll Byggnads AB which specialized in new building techniques. By aggressive investments and innovative financial instruments he built a global match...
  
  
• 1998 – Den tatuerade änkan
• Beck – The Money Man (1998)
• Beck – Monstret (1998)
• Beck – Vita nätter (1998)
• Beck – Öga för öga (1998)
• Beck – Spår i mörker (1997)
• Beck – Pensionat Pärlan (1997)
• Beck – Mannen med ikonerna (1997)
• Beck – Lockpojken
  Beck (film)
  Beck, later called Beck – Lockpojken, is a 1997 film about the Swedish police detective Martin Beck directed by Pelle Seth.- Cast :*Peter Haber as Martin Beck*Mikael Persbrandt as Gunvald Larsson*Figge Norling as Benny Skacke...
  
  (1997)
• 1997 – Emma åklagare
• Potatishandlaren (1996)
• 1996 – Torntuppen
• Juloratoriet (1996)
• Pensionat Oskar (1995)
• 1993 – Tomtemaskinen
• Kejsarn av Portugallien (1992)
• Miraklet i Valby (1989)
• 1989 – Tre kärlekar
• Kunglig toilette (1986)
• 1986 – Fläskfarmen
• 1985 – August Strindberg: ett liv
• The Man from Majorca
  The Man from Majorca
  The Man from Majorca is a 1984 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg. The film is based on the novel Grisfesten by Leif G. W. Persson. The novel has big similarities with the Geijer affair . Leif G.W...
  
  (1984)
• Berget på månens baksida (1984)
• Midvinterduell (1983)
• 1981 – Babels hus
• 1981 – Som enda närvarande
• 1981 – Drottning Kristina
• 1980 – Children's Island
• Jackpot (1980)
• 1980 – Nattvandraren
• 1978 – Hedebyborna
• The Man on the Roof
  The Man on the Roof
  The Man on the Roof is a 1976 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg, based on the 1971 novel The Abominable Man by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. The film is a crime thriller about the police officer Martin Beck trying to catch a killer, and it reaches its climax when the killer barricades himself on a roof...
  
  (1976)
• För vänskaps skull (1965)
• Raven's End
  Raven's End
  Raven's End is a 1963 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg, about an aspiring working-class writer in Malmö. The story bears some similarities to Widerberg's own background, although he claimed it to be entirely fictional.-Plot:...
  
  (1963)

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