Nils Fredrik Gösta Hillberg (28 July 1877 – 30 March 1958) was a Swedish actor. Hillberg first worked at Vasateatern, Svenska teater and Sydsvenska skådebanan, he also worked at the

Royal Dramatic Theatre The Royal Dramatic Theatre (, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The theatre has been at its present lo ...

. Hillberg was born in

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. He was the son of actor Emil Hillberg, and in 1908 he married actress Berta Schantz. Besides doing many theater works he also acted in more than fifteen films between 1920 and 1944 amongst them ''Ombytta roller'' (1920) and ''Flickan från Paradiset'' (1924). Hillberg died in

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Selected filmography

* '' The Mill'' (1921) *''

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'' (1923) * '' Johan Ulfstjerna'' (1923) * '' Where the Lighthouse Flashes'' (1924) * ''

Happy Vestköping ''Happy Vestköping'' (Swedish: ''Lyckliga Vestköping'') is a 1937 Swedish comedy film directed and co-written by Ragnar Arvedson and starring Isa Quensel, Einar Axelsson and Nils Wahlbom.Wallengren p.54 Synopsis The small Swedish town of Vestk ...

'' (1937) * '' A Crime'' (1940)

References

1877 births 1958 deaths Swedish male stage actors Swedish male film actors Swedish male silent film actors 20th-century Swedish male actors {{Sweden-stage-actor-stub