The Olsen Gang is a Danish comedy film series created by Danish director Erik Balling and special effects expert Henning Bahs about the eponymous fictional criminal gang. The gang's leader is the criminal genius and habitual offender Egon Olsen and his accomplices are Benny and Kjeld. The gang members are harmless, extremely rarely target ordinary citizens, and never deliberately use violence. The first film came in 1968; during the next thirty years a total of fourteen films were made.
Hans Gösta Gustaf Ekman was a Swedish actor, comedian, and director.
Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003, is also a Swedish record. Her indoor record of 2.08 m, set at the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in 2006, is the world indoor record.
Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter was a Swedish actor, writer, and political activist. Wollter is one of the most renowned Swedish actors, he was awarded Best Swedish actor twice. In his native country, he became widely known through his role as Madame Flod's son Gusten in Swedish Television's adaption of The People of Hemsö by August Strindberg in 1966. Later he had several notable roles, including in 1976 when he played Detective Sergeant Lennart Kollberg in Bo Widerberg's film The Man on the Roof. For international viewers, he is best known for his role Victor in the dramatic film The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky, and for a wider television audience as the retired Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren in the cinematic adaptations of Håkan Nesser's police novels.
Anders Göran Gillinger is a Swedish actor and former model. He has a broad background in classical theatre, television and film.
Björn Gösta Tryggve Granath was a Swedish actor who appeared in over 100 films and television shows.
Yvonne Agneta Ryding is a Swedish dancer, model, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1984 on 9 July 1984. She is the third Swede in history to win the title, and the most recent one.
Slim Susie is a 2003 Swedish comedy-crime film. It was directed by Ulf Malmros and written by Malmros and Petteri Nuottimäki. It is considered Ulf Malmros's most popular film.
Förkväll was a Swedish daily talk show that started airing in 2006 on TV4. The show lasted until January 2011 before it was cancelled.
Rolf Holger Lassgård is a Swedish actor. He is known for his many roles in crime dramas.
Leif Gustav Willy "GW" Persson is a Swedish criminologist and novelist. Persson has four children, one of whom, Malin Persson Giolito, is also a crime writer.
Stockholm Marathon is a 1994 film directed by Peter Keglevic about the Swedish police detective Martin Beck, loosely based on the last Martin Beck novel, The Terrorists (1975). The title song for the film, "Marathon of Life", was written by Ralf Stemmann and performed by Thomas Anders.
Ing-Marie Gunilla Jessica Carlsson is a Swedish actress. Carlsson lives in Södermalm, Stockholm.
The Man on the Balcony is a 1993 Swedish-German crime thriller film, based on the 1967 book The Man on the Balcony written by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. This is the fourth film which stars Gösta Ekman as Martin Beck and Rolf Lassgård as Gunvald Larsson.
Murder at the Savoy is a Swedish/German film from 1993, based on the 1970 book Murder at the Savoy.
Chock is a Swedish horror television series that was broadcast in 1997. It was made in the style of horror shows like Tales from the Crypt.
Yvonne Svanström,, is an associate professor and head of the Department of Economic History at Stockholm University.
Ulf Peter Vilhelm Malmros is a Swedish screenwriter and film director.
Spring Tide is a Swedish television drama series. It had its premiere on 6 March 2016 on SVT. It was written by Rolf and Cilla Börjlind and is based on their crime novel of the same name published in 2012.
Lars Edvin Folke Ryding is a Swedish actor. He debuted in the TV series Mannen under trappan in 2009 at the age of 6 years. Since then Ryding has acted in several other productions like Fröken Frimans krig, The Crown Jewels, The Stig-Helmer Story, Gåsmamman, and several of the films about Annika Bengtzon produced in 2011. He became known internationally with the leading role in the 2021 Netflix show Young Royals, where he plays the character Prince Wilhelm. He had the leading voice role in the Swedish language children's animated film Resan till Fjäderkungens rike. Ryding was featured in Europe's Forbes 30 under 30 list of 2022.
