Torgny Anderberg (25 February 1919 – 6 November 2000) was a Swedish actor and

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. He appeared in more than 25 films and television shows between 1944 and 1993. Anderberg was an avid documentary filmmaker parallel to his work in fiction films. His documentary work is arguably comparable to that of the enthofiction of

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, as his early documentaries melded documentary and fiction film strategies in their discourse. A similar rhetoric is also found in his later work. Anderberg made frequent trips to Latin America following the production of ''Anaconda'', documenting encounters with indigenous people of the jungles, something he did up to his final film Kondormannen 2003. He collaborated several times with explorer

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on a series of features and short films with an ethnographic content.

Selected filmography

* '' A Ship Bound for India'' (1947) * '' The People of Simlang Valley'' (1947) * ''

Life in the Finnish Woods ''Life in the Finnish Woods'' (Swedish: ''Livet i Finnskogarna'') is a 1947 Swedish drama film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Carl Jularbo, Naima Wifstrand and Barbro Ribbing.Qvist & Von Bagh p.93 It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna S ...

'' (1947) * '' The Poetry of Ådalen'' (1947) * ''

Big Lasse of Delsbo ''Big Lasse of Delsbo'' (Swedish: ''Lång-Lasse i Delsbo'') is a 1949 Swedish historical drama film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Sten Lindgren, Anna Lindahl and Ulla Andreasson. It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Sto ...

'' (1949) * '' The Devil and the Smalander'' (1949) * '' The Realm of the Rye'' (1950) * ''

Kalle Karlsson of Jularbo ''Kalle Karlsson of Jularbo'' (Swedish: ''Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo'') is a 1952 Swedish musical drama film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Kenne Fant, Rut Holm and Ingrid Thulin.Qvist & Von Bagh p.93 It is a biopic loosely based on t ...

'' (1952) * ''Anaconda'' (1954) *''Med Rolf Blomberg på djungelfärd'' (1957) *''Jangada: En brasiliansk rapsodi'' (1958) * ''

Fridolf Stands Up! ''Fridolf Stands Up!'' (Swedish: ''Fridolf sticker opp!'') is a 1958 Swedish comedy film directed by Torgny Anderberg and starring Douglas Håge, Hjördis Petterson and Lars Ekborg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bibi Lindströ ...

'' (1958) *''Äventyr bland huvudjägare'' (''Adventures amongst the head reducers'', 1958) * '' Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours'' (1960) *''Villervalle i Söderhavet'' (1962) *Att vara indian (''Being an Indian'', 1969) *''Indianer är de människor'' (''Are Indians People,'' 1969) *''Jakt på Inkaguld'' (''In Search of for the Inca Gold'', 1969) *''Inca Solfolket'' (''Incas, the Sun People'', 1970) *''Amazonas Sjukhuset'' (1973) *''Indianer i Amazonas'' (1973) * ''

The Man on the Roof ''The Man on the Roof'' ( sv, Mannen på taket) is a 1976 Swedish police procedural- thriller film directed by Bo Widerberg. It is based on the 1971 novel ''The Abominable Man'' by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The film stars Carl-Gustaf Lindste ...

'' (1976) * ''

The Walls of Freedom ''The Walls of Freedom'' ( sv, Frihetens murar) is a 1978 Swedish drama film directed by Marianne Ahrne. It was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Torgny Anderberg as Head Waiter * Britta Billsten as Spastic Woman ...

'' (1978) * ''

Freud's Leaving Home ''Freud's Leaving Home'' ( sv, Freud flyttar hemifrån...) is a 1991 Swedish comedy film directed by Susanne Bier. The film won ten awards and was nominated for three. The film follows a girl, Freud, from a Jewish family in Sweden. It was the fir ...

'' (1991) * '' Roseanna'' (1993) * ''

The Fire Engine That Disappeared ''The Fire Engine That Disappeared'' (''Brandbilen som försvann'') is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Sjöwall and Wahlöö, published in 1969. It is the fifth book in the '' Martin Beck'' detective series. In the novel a house fire, which ki ...

'' (1993) *''Kondormannen'' (2003)

References

External links

* * *Films by Torgny Anderberg at th
Archivo Blomberg
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderberg, Torgny 1919 births 2000 deaths People from Kristianstad Municipality 20th-century Swedish male actors Swedish male film actors Swedish male television actors Swedish film directors