Erik Halvar Bertil Björk (22 September 1928 – 12 November 2000) was a Swedish actor. He worked at the

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City Theatre from 1962 to 1986, and he had many substantial film and TV roles; for example, he acted in '' Autumn Sonata'' (1978) and ''

Sunday's Children ''Sunday's Children'' () is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Daniel Bergman and written by Ingmar Bergman. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards the film won the award for Best Cinematography ( Tony Forsberg) and Thommy Berggren was nominated fo ...

'' (1992) by

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, his films have been described as "profoun ...

and '' The Emigrants'' (1971) and '' The New Land'' (1972) by

Jan Troell Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish writer-director and cinematographer. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with I ...

. Björk won the Best Actor at the 5th Guldbagge Awards for his performance in the

Yngve Gamlin Yngve Gamlin (17 March 1926 – 1 February 1995) was a Swedish actor and film director. His 1965 film '' The Chasers'' was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. Gam ...

film '' Badarna'' (1968). He died of

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* 1928 births 2000 deaths Swedish male film actors Swedish male stage actors Swedish male television actors Best Actor Guldbagge Award winners 20th-century Swedish male actors Deaths from lung cancer in Sweden People from Ragunda Municipality {{Sweden-stage-actor-stub