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Fimpen
''Fimpen'' (lit. "the cigarette butt", UK ''Stubby'', international ''The Butt'') is a 1974 Swedish family film written and directed by Bo Widerberg and starring Johan Bergman. Plot Six-year-old Johan, nicknamed "Fimpen", is an extraordinarily talented football player. He is discovered and recruited to Hammarby IF and the Swedish national team. Performing in the 1974 World Cup qualification, he is promoted to idol status but finds it difficult to keep up in school. Cast *Johan Bergman as Johan 'Fimpen' Bergman *Monica Zetterlund as Teacher *Magnus Härenstam as Mackan *Ernst-Hugo Järegård as Club Official *Carl Billquist as Principal *Stig Ossian Ericson as Cab Driver Football players appearing as themselves: Claes Cronqvist, Ralf Edström, Ove Grahn, Georg Ericson, Ronnie Hellström, Kent Karlsson, Ove Kindvall, Krister Kristensson, Bosse Larsson, Benno Magnusson, Roger Magnusson, Björn Nordqvist, Kenneth Ohlsson, Janne Olsson, Örjan Persson, Roland Sandberg, Tom Turess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Widerberg
Bo Gunnar Widerberg (; 8 June 1930 – 1 May 1997) was a Sweden, Swedish film director, screenwriter, writer, film editing, editor and actor. Biography Early life Widerberg was born in Malmö, Malmöhus County, Sweden. Career Widerberg was the director of films such as ''Raven's End'' (1963), ''Elvira Madigan (1967 film), Elvira Madigan'' (1967), ''Ådalen 31'' (1969), ''Joe Hill (film), Joe Hill'' (1971), ''Fimpen'' (1974), ''The Man on the Roof'' (1976), ''Victoria (1979 film), Victoria'' (1979), ''The Man from Majorca'' (1984), ''The Serpent's Way'' (1986) and ''All Things Fair'' (1995). ''The Serpent's Way'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and in competition at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1966 at the 3rd Guldbagge Awards his film ''Heja Roland!'' won the award for Guldbagge Award for Best Film, Best Film. Death and legacy Widerberg died in Ängelholm, Sweden on 1 May 1997 of stomach cancer and was buried in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Zetterlund
Monica Zetterlund (born Eva Monica Nilsson; 20 September 1937 – 12 May 2005) was a Sweden, Swedish jazz Singing, singer and Actor, actress. Through her lifetime, she starred in over 10 Swedish film productions and recorded over 20 studio albums. She gained international fame through her collaborative album with Bill Evans, ''Waltz for Debby (1964 album), Waltz for Debby.'' Career Singer Zetterlund began by learning the classic jazz songs from radio and records, initially not knowing the language and what they sang about in English. Her hit songs included "" (Swedish cover of "Walkin' My Baby Back Home (song), Walking My Baby Back Home"; in Swedish a tribute to Stockholm town), "Visa från Utanmyra", "", "", "" ("Little Green Apples"), "" ("Waltz for Debby (song), Waltz for Debby"), "" ("Hit the Road Jack"), "", "", "" (cover of Sting (musician), Sting's "Moon Over Bourbon Street") and "", among many others. She also interpreted the works of such Swedish singer-songwrite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård (12 December 1928 – 6 September 1998) was a Swedish actor. Biography Järegård was born in Ystad. He received his acting training at Malmö City Theatre. From 1962 he was an actor in Sweden's prominent Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he came to perform a number of much celebrated parts: his eccentric Hitler in ''Schweik in the Second World War'' by Bertolt Brecht (1963), Estragon in the legendary 1966 Dramaten-staging of Samuel Beckett's '' Waiting for Godot'', Thersites in Shakespeare's ''Troilus and Cressida'' 1967, Orgon in Molière's ''Tartuffe'' 1971, Hjalmar Ekdahl in Ingmar Bergman's 1972 production of Ibsen's ''The Wild Duck'', Nero in Jean Racine's '' Britannicus'' (1974), a spot-on portrayal of August Strindberg in play ''Tribadernas natt'' (The Night of the Tribades) by Per Olov Enquist, the title role in '' Richard III'' by Shakespeare (1980) and the extremely creepy – and slightly perverted – boss Sven in ''VD'' ("CEO") by Stig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Härenstam
Johan Herbert Magnus Härenstam (19 June 1941 – 13 June 2015) was a Swedish television host, actor and comedian. Härenstam hosted the Swedish version of the game-show ''Jeopardy!'' for 14 years before being replaced by Adam Alsing. Härenstam is also known for hosting the children's TV-program ''Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter'' (with Brasse Brännström & Eva Remaeus), which was very popular and has been re-broadcast numerous times since it first aired. Härenstam participated in the music video for ABBA's hit song " When I Kissed the Teacher" where he played the teacher who got kissed by Agnetha Fältskog. Well known in Sweden for several decades, he was almost equally popular in Norway, having starred in the 1990s sitcom Fredrikssons fabrikk, playing the Swedish boss of a Norwegian textile workshop. Härenstam died on 13 June 2015 after a several year long fight with cancer, six days before his 74th birthday. Partial filmography *'' Skratt'' (1968, TV Short) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Billquist
Carl Folke Billquist (19 May 1933 – 24 May 1993) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 60 films and television shows between 1961 and 1993. Partial filmography * ''Lyckodrömmen'' (1963) - Fabian Widefjäll * ''All These Women'' (1964) - The Young Man * ''Heja Roland!'' (1966) - Svensson * ''En sån strålande dag'' (1967) - Claes, ski instructor * ''Miss and Mrs Sweden'' (1969) - Dick Lönn * ''Grisjakten'' (1970) - Haller&Ziegler representative * ''Honeymoon'' (1972) - Salesman * ''The Day the Clown Cried'' (1972) - Gestapo Officer #2 * ''Håll alla dörrar öppna'' (1973) - Solveig's Suitor * '' Fimpen'' (1974) - Principal * ''Garaget'' (1975) - Dr. Orlander * ''91:an och generalernas fnatt'' (1977) - Sgt. Revär * ''Barna från Blåsjöfjället'' (1980) - Captain Persson * ''Höjdhoppar'n'' (1981) - President * '' Peter-No-Tail'' (1981) - Bill (voice) * ''The Simple-Minded Murderer'' (1982) - Flodin * ''Jönssonligan och Dynamit-Harry'' (1982) - Kriminalkommissarie Persso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengt Bedrup
Bengt Erik Helge Bedrup (né Nilsson) (10 June 1928 – 27 March 2005) was a Swedish journalist and television personality. Career Bedrup was born at Maria Prästgårdsgata in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden, the son of managing director Helge Nilsson and his wife Karin (née Nygren). He attended ''Viggbyholmsskolan'' in Viggbyholm in 1945 and became at the age of 17 an employee at the newspaper ''Värmlands-Posten'' in Kristinehamn in 1945. The year after he came to the newspaper '' Norra Skåne'' in Hässleholm and then to ''Expressen'' in 1948. Bedrup became employed by the Swedish Radio in 1956 and by the Sveriges Television (SVT) in 1958. During the TV's breakthrough as a medium in the early 1960s, he became nationally famous as a sports journalist. Along with Bengt Grive and Sven "Plex" Pettersson, Bedrup was the first to be hired at SVT's sports editorial office, when it was started in 1960. In addition to this effort, he was together with Gun Hägglund the TV hosts of the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Elfving
Ulf Elfving (born 27 November 1942 in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist and broadcaster."Elfving, Ulf", ''Nationalencyklopedin'' biographical entry, retrieved 24 March 2014 Elfving started his career in the 1960s. He was programme manager of the Swedish charts between 1966 and 1973 and Record Mirror in the 1970s. He hosted the Melodifestivalen in 1977, 1978 and 1979 and provided the Swedish commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest on eight occasions between 1977 until 1983 and again in 1986. Until the late 1990s Elfving was a radio show host on Sveriges Radio P4 P4 (''pe fyra'') is a national radio channel produced by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. P4 was started in 1987 as a network of regional stations, but national programming was added in 1993 when P3 was relaunched as a specialist yo .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengt Grive
Bengt Edvin Axel Grive, né ''Gustafsson'' (21 March 1921 – 17 September 2003) was a Swedish sports commentator, journalist and author. Career Grive was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Edvin Gustafsson and Elsa (née Lindström). Grive worked as a firefighter in Stockholm during a few years in the 1940s. Grive worked at ''Aftonbladet'' newspaper from 1951 to 1956, and performed as a variety show artist from 1953 to 1960. In 1960, he became a reporter for Sveriges Television, where he worked until 1990 when he became a freelance journalist. In 1993, he started working for Eurosport when the channel expanded its broadcast to the Nordics. He got to commentate both tennis and ski jumping. He also became a mentor for amongst others Chris Härenstam and Niklas Holmgren. He is best known for commentating Björn Borg's tennis finals in Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benno Magnusson
Lars Benno Magnusson (born 4 February 1953) is a Swedish former footballer. He's a brother of fellow footballer Roger Magnusson. Magnusson was a very popular player who got his breakthrough in Åtvidabergs FF when he became a Swedish champion 1972. He later became a professional in West Germany with Hertha BSC and FC Kaiserslautern. He was a member of the Swedish national team in the 1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the .... After his retiring he has made appearances in TV-shows and now works for Svenska spel. Magnusson, who played for the club Kalmar FF in the 1970s and 1980s, is one of the most legendary players in the history of the club. Therefore, the biggest Kalmar FF fan site has been named after him. References External links * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mats Werner
Mats Rune "Matte" Werner (born 1 June 1953) is a Swedish former professional footballer. He played for Hammarby IF throughout most of his career. Club career Trained in the youth ranks of Hammarby IF, Werner made his debut in Allsvenskan, the domestic top tier, for the club in 1971, at age 17. Between 1971 and 1976, Hammarby consistently finished mid-table, being unable to produce any sort of challenge for the Swedish champion title. During this period, Werner became one of Hammarby's most important players, together with experienced Tom Turesson and other younger talents like Jan Sjöström, Kenneth Ohlsson and Ronnie Hellström. Hammarby reached the final of Svenska Cupen in 1977, the main domestic cup, but lost 0–1 to Östers IF. In 1979, Werner had re-positioned himself from a tough defender to a physical forward, a move that proved highly successful. The same season, he became the first ever top scorer in Allsvenskan to represent Hammarby, scoring 14 goals in 26 league g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Turesson
Tom Olov Turesson (17 May 1942 – 13 December 2004) was a Swedish football (soccer), football player and manager, best known for representing Hammarby Fotboll, Hammarby IF. A full international between 1962 and 1971, he won 22 Cap (sport), caps for Sweden national football team, Sweden and scored 9 goals, taking part in the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Early life Born in Östervåla, Turesson grew up in the village of Vendel in Uppland County. He started to play football with local club IK Rex as a youngster. Turesson attracted interest from both Djurgårdens IF Fotboll, Djurgårdens IF and their Djurgårdens IF Fotboll–Hammarby Fotboll rivalry, rivals Hammarby Fotboll, Hammarby IF, and chose to join the latter after a successful trial where he impressed manager Folke Adamsson. Club career Hammarby On 24 September 1961 Allsvenskan, 1961, Turesson scored in his senior debut for Hammarby in Allsvenskan, aged 19, in a 4–2 away win against Örgryte IS. He immediately broke into the squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Sandberg
Ernst Roland Sandberg (born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Starting off his career with Kalmar FF in 1966, he went on to represent Åtvidabergs FF, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, and BK Häcken before his retirement in 1981. A full international between 1969 and 1976, he won 37 caps and scored 15 goals for the Sweden national team. He was a part of the Sweden team that finished fifth at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. Club career Born in Karlskrona, Sandberg began his footballing career with Jämjö GoIF and Lyckeby GoIF before signing with Kalmar FF in 1955. In 1970, he signed with Åtvidabergs FF with which he won two Allsvenskan titles, two Svenska Cupen titles, and was the Allsvenskan top scorer in both 1971 and 1972. In 1973, he signed with German Bundesliga outfit 1. FC Kaiserslautern, where he spent four years and contributed with 60 goals in 118 league games. After a career-threatening knee injury in 1976, he retired from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
