Personal Info
Birth date
1934-01-11 (91 Years)
Day of death
2020-11-10
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Gothenburg, Sweden
Also known as
Sven Wolter
Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter
Sven Wollter
Biography
Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter (11 January 1934 – 10 November 2020) 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.
Filmography
Så ska det låta
5.6
Overview:
Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.På spåret
6.538
Overview:
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.The Guldbagge Awards
5.5
Overview:
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.Renées brygga
NYR
Overview:
TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them.Dieselråttor och sjömansmöss
NYR
Overview:
The story take place on a ship where two children, Ofelia and Philémon, are shrunk and captured by a bunch of rats living in the engine room.Svensson, Svensson
5.222
Overview:
Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play. Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007. Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a population of around 8.8 million people. The most watched episode was broadcast on 17 November 1996 and gathered 3,395,000 viewers. The series centres around the Svensson family who lives in the Vivalla area of Örebro. The family consists of the father Gustav who works as mailman, the mother Lena who works at a bank, their teenage daughter Lina and their son Max. For the revival, Gustav has had to retire from his work at the post office, while Lena works for the local government. Max now works at the bank and Lina has married the conductor John who brought his daughter Greta into the family.Hemsöborna
7.8
Overview:
Carlsson arrives at the widow Flod's farm in the Stockholm archipelago to help in the running of it. He is met with resistance by the widow's jealous son Gusten who is more interested in fishing than farming. When it is decided to hire out some houses for summer guests from the city the equilibrium is disturbed.Mördare utan ansikte
6.3
Overview:
It is winter on the plains of Skåne coast. Farmer woken gets up and goes over to the neighboring farm. The sight that meets him is terrible. His neighbor John Lövgren lying on the floor with broken face. His wife Mary is sitting on a chair with a noose around his neck and her nightgown nersölat of blood. Before she dies in the hospital, she has time to say a word as soon leak out into the media, "Foreign" Inspector Kurt Wallander in Ystad police leading the investigation will soon receive anonymous threats by telephone. When the city's refugee camp on fire and a Somali refugee murdered, he understands that those who threatened him serious. And realize that it is now a race against time. And, against a ruthless opponent. A killer with no face ...Profitörerna
NYR
Overview:
Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel.Raskens
8.1
Overview:
The year is 1872. After being to drunk the stooge Gustaf Karlsson hits his master. To avoid sentence he enlists to the army and get the name Rask. He meet his future wife and we then get to follow his life together with his wife and their children in the 19th century Småland (Sweden). Their subsistence features happiness, but also by horrible tragedies.The 13th Warrior
6.685
Overview:
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.Kallocain
NYR
Overview:
A dramatization of the Karin Boye's last novel. A nightmarish existence in a future regimented society. In this welfare state introduced the drug Kallocain that may reveal the crimes of dissent.The House
7
Overview:
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.The Sacrifice
7.704
Overview:
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.I Am Curious (Yellow)
5.6
Overview:
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.Man on the Roof
7.2
Overview:
Detective Martin Beck investigates the grisly murder of a police Lieutenant in his hospital room, he soon realises the urgency of the case when it turns out the killer may hold a hatred for all policemen.Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber
4.6
Overview:
Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's old school father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son follow in his footsteps and one day be in charge of his own forest. In spite of their differences, on the eve of the first winter storm Junior helps Jalle distribute food rations. Then disaster strikes.Jerusalem
7.2
Overview:
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.House of Angels
5.8
Overview:
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.Acting
TBAStall-Erik and the Snapphans as Unknown
2022Day by Day as Malte
2022The House as Odd Couple (voice)
2019I huvudet på en filmskapare as Unknown
2019Mästaren (1 Episode) as Self
2018Videoman as The Neighbour
2017Sunny Side as Mauritz Schiller
2017Kim - Den skalliga primadonnan as Unknown
2015Key House Mirror as Erik
2015Lust och fägring - en film om Bo Widerbergs sista as Unknown
2015Renées brygga (2 Episodes) as Himself
2013Hotet från yttre rymden as Säpochef
2012Flicker as Barnard
2012Samlaren as Lennart
2012Min sanning (1 Episode) as Self
2010House of Angels - Third Time Lucky as Axel Flogfält
2010Georg & Lydia as Georg
2008Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber as Fassa (voice)
2006Trigger as Lasse
2006Fallet G as Van Veeteren
2006Svalan, katten, rosen, döden as Van Veeteren
2006Moreno and the Silence as Van Veeteren
2006Störst av allt as Aron
2006Sigillet as Vete von Vanders
2005Carambole as Van Veeteren
2005Münsters fall as Van Veeteren
2005Borkmann's Point as Van Veeteren
2005Molly in the World as The narrator
2005Jag tänker på mig själv - och vänstern as Self
2004Heartbeat as Kirurgen
2004With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof as Self
2002Dieselråttor och sjömansmöss (24 Episodes) as Mäster Estragon
2002Suxxess as Sigvard
2001Kira's Reason: A Love Story as Kira's father
2001Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid as Self
2001Kvinna med födelsemärke (3 Episodes) as Van Veeteren
2001A Song for Martin as Martin
2001Återkomsten (3 Episodes) as Van Veeteren
2001Kvinna med födelsemärke as van Veeteren
2000Van Veeteren (9 Episodes) as Van Veeteren
2000Det grovmaskiga nätet as Van Veeteren
1999The 13th Warrior as King Hrothgar
1999Sally (16 Episodes) as Roffe Santesson
1998Ivar Kreuger (3 Episodes) as Häradshövding Wallenberg
1998Ögat as Criminal detective
1998The Tattooed Widow as Erik Sandström
1998Hjerteflimmer (5 Episodes) as Olof
1997Så ska det låta (1 Episode) as Self
1996Vildhussen as Pehr Hellzén
1996Jerusalem as Stor-Ingmar
1996Lines from the Heart as Self - Actor in 'Iphigenia'
1995Stjärnbilder as (archive footage)
1995Mördare utan ansikte (4 Episodes) as Rydberg
1995Alfred as Unknown
1994House of Angels: The Second Summer as Axel Flogfält
1994Svensson, Svensson (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993Dockpojken as The father
1992House of Angels as Axel Flogfält
1991Violet Bay as Kerem
1991Tack ska du ha, Karl Gerhard heter jag as Self
1991Facklorna as Evert Gregor
1990Smykketyven as Jan Ström
1989Husbonden as Peter
1988Sweetwater as Doc
1988One Way Ticket as Johannes
1987Friends as Zeb
1987På spåret (2 Episodes) as Tävlande
1987A Film About Love as Peter
1986In the Name of the Law as Inspector Jarnebring
1986The Sacrifice as Victor
1985Havlandet as Matti
1984The Man from Majorca as Bo Jarnebring
1984Sista leken as Viktor
1983Profitörerna (3 Episodes) as Jarnebring
1983Jacob smitaren as Doctor
1981Kallocain (2 Episodes) as Leo Kall
1981The Guldbagge Awards (1, 1 Episode) as Self - Best Actor winner, Self - Host
1981Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd (5 Episodes) as Schagerström, brukspatron
1981The Last Bid as Police inspector
1979Charlotte Löwensköld as Foundry proprietor Schagerström
1978Strandvaskeren (6 Episodes) as Sallberg
1977Bo Widerberg as Unknown
1976Man on the Roof as Lennart Kollberg
1976Raskens (8 Episodes) as Gustaf Karlsson (Rask)
1975The White Wall as Kjell Larsson
1974Rymmare as Klas
1974Domaren as Unknown
1973Krocken as Bilförsäljare
1972Sandlådan as Johan
1969No as Unknown
1968I Love, You Love as Sten
1968Exercis as fänrik Alm
1968I samma rum as Y
1968Regeln och undantaget as Unknown
1968Repetitionen as Villebosse
1967I Am Curious (Yellow) as Captain (uncredited)
1967The Truth About the New Anna Susanna as Unknown
1966Hemsöborna (7 Episodes) as Gusten
1965Like Rings on the Water as Unknown
1960Julkalendern (24 Episodes) as Perols Erik
1959Rider in Blue as Photographer
Writing
2006Störst av allt ... Writer