Ingvar Hirdwall
Ingvar Hirdwall (December 5, 1934 – April 6, 2023) was born in Stockholm, and was educated at Gothenburg City Theatre stage school 1957-1960. Since the early 1960s until his death he has been active as an actor in many films, TV series and on theatrical stages, mainly Stockholms stadsteater. He is well known in Sweden, was often portraying obstinate or strange characters, like the eccentric neighbor in the many Swedish Martin Beck TV-movies made from 1997 on. He was also often in director Lars Molin's productions. In December 1993, Hirdwall played the leading role in the Swedish TV company SVT's annual children's Christmas “Advent calendar” - Tomtemaskinen (The mechanical santa), one of the Pettson and Findus stories by Sven Nordqvist - with one 15-minute part shown each day up until Christmas Eve. Hirdwall played the character of Pettson. Hirdwall received the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Actor at the 17th Guldbagge Awards for Barnens ö (Children's Island) and the Thaliapriset prize in 1993. Hirdwall was married to the actress Marika Lindström. They have two children, director Jacob Hirdwall and actress Agnes Hirdwall.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Stall-Erik and the Snapphans as Måns
- 2024 · Beck - bakom kulisserna as Grannen (archive footage)
- 2023 · Beck 50 - Deadlock as Grannen
- 2023 · Beck 49 - Inferno as Grannen
- 2023 · Beck 48 - Quid Pro Quo as Grannen
- 2022 · Beck 47 - The Death Trap as Grannen
- 2022 · Beck 46 - The Crying Cop as Grannen
- 2022 · Beck 45 - 58 Minutes as Grannen
- 2022 · Beck 44 - Rage Room as Grannen
- 2021 · Beck 43 - Haunted by the Past as Grannen
- 2021 · Beck - Den förlorade sonen as Grannen
- 2021 · Beck 41 - Death in Samarra as Grannen
- 2020 · Beck 40 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt as Grannen
- 2020 · Beck 39 - Undercover as Grannen
- 2018 · Beck 38 - The Devil's Advocate as Grannen
- 2018 · Beck 37 - Without Intent as Grannen
- 2018 · Beck 36 - The Thin Ice as Grannen
- 2018 · Beck 35 - Your Own Blood as Grannen
- 2016 · Beck: The Last Day as Grannen
- 2016 · Beck 33 - End of the Road as Grannen
- 2016 · Beck 32 - Steinar as Grannen
- 2016 · Beck 31 - Gunvald as Grannen
- 2015 · Miraklet i Viskan as Halvar
- 2015 · Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders as Grannen
- 2015 · Beck 29 - Invasion as Grannen
- 2015 · Beck 28 - The Family as Grannen
- 2015 · Beck 27 - Room 302 as Valdemar
- 2013 · Wallander: The Troubled Man as Lundberg
- 2010 · Beck 26 - Buried Alive as Grannen
- 2009 · The Secret as Self
- 2009 · Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm as Grannen
- 2009 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Dirch Frode
- 2007 · Beck 24 - In the Name of God as Grannen
- 2007 · Beck 23 - The Silent Scream as Grannen
- 2007 · Beck 22 - The Weak Link as Grannen
- 2007 · Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting as Grannen
- 2007 · Beck 20 - The Lawyer as Grannen
- 2007 · Beck 19 - The Vulture as Grannen
- 2006 · Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar as Grannen
- 2006 · Offside as Boston
- 2006 · Beck 17 - The Scorpion as Grannen
- 2006 · The Individual Citizen as Gunnar Bergström
- 2005 · Mouth to Mouth as Mats's father John
- 2005 · Wallander as Lundberg
- 2005 · Deadline Torp as Birger Johansen
- 2004 · Kent - ett porträtt av Kent Andersson as Self
- 2004 · The Caretaker as Davies
- 2004 · With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof as Self
- 2003 · Daybreak as Knut
- 2003 · Let's Play House as Roland
- 2003 · Miffo as Karl Henrik
- 2002 · Beck 16 - The Last Witness as Grannen
- 2002 · Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball as Grannen
- 2002 · Beck 14 - The Advertising Man as Grannen
- 2002 · Beck 13 - Sender Unknown as The Neighbor
- 2002 · Beck 12 - The Loner as Grannen
- 2001 · Beck 11 - The Cartel as Grannen
- 2001 · Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face as Grannen
- 2001 · Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance as Grannen
- 2001 · Anderssons älskarinna as Erik, fadern
- 1999 · Beck as Grannen
- 1998 · Ivar Kreuger as Statsminister Ekman
- 1998 · Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness as Grannen
- 1998 · Beck 07 - The Money Man as Grannen
- 1998 · Beck 06 - The Monster as Grannen
- 1998 · Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl as The Neighbor
- 1998 · Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye as The Neighbor
- 1998 · The Tattooed Widow as Egon Andersson
- 1998 · Beck 03 - White Nights as The Neighbor
- 1998 · Ivar Kreuger as
- 1997 · Beck - The Man with the Icons as Grannen
- 1997 · Skärgårdsdoktorn as Ewe Tannander
- 1997 · Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy as Grannen
- 1997 · En kvinnas huvud as Düber
- 1997 · Tartuffe - hycklaren as The king
- 1996 · A Kind of Hades as The old man
- 1996 · Christmas Oratorio as Edman
- 1996 · The Potato Seller as Johansson
- 1996 · The Zone as
- 1996 · The Zone as Erik Lagerlöf
- 1995 · Like It Never Was Before as Strange Man
- 1994 · Onkel Vanja as Teljegin
- 1993 · Tomtemaskinen as Pettson
- 1992 · Kejsarn av Portugallien as Jan
- 1992 · Kvällspressen as Sockander, chefredaktör
- 1992 · KvällsPressen as Sockander
- 1990 · Honungsvargar as Axel
- 1989 · 1939 as Annika's father
- 1989 · The Miracle in Valby as Petra's Father
- 1989 · Tre kärlekar as Egon Nilsson
- 1987 · Ondskans år as Dr. Herbert Ahlström
- 1986 · Kunglig toilette as Restaurateur
- 1986 · Sammansvärjningen as Liljensparre
- 1986 · Fläskfarmen as Monty
- 1985 · Korset as Police Inspector Jörgen Wennström
- 1985 · August Strindberg: Ett liv as Läraren
- 1984 · The Man from Majorca as Fors
- 1983 · Savannen as Operator
- 1983 · A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon as Gustaf Edgren
- 1983 · Midvinterduell as Egon
- 1982 · Pelikanen as
- 1982 · Dom unga örnarna as Gunnar Grävmo
- 1981 · The Guldbagge Awards as Self - Best Actor winner
- 1981 · Drottning Kristina as Axel Oxenstierna
- 1981 · Babels hus as Bernt Svensson, Primus son
- 1980 · Children's Island as Stig Utler
- 1980 · A Dream Play as Affischören
- 1980 · Jackpot as Sven
- 1979 · Godnatt, jord as
- 1978 · Rikedom as John
- 1978 · Svenska noveller as John
- 1976 · Man on the Roof as Åke Eriksson
- 1974 · Gustav III as Horn
- 1972 · Sandlådan as
- 1972 · Hemmet as
- 1972 · Flotten as Freddy
- 1969 · Berndt och Anita as Berndt
- 1965 · För vänskaps skull as
- 1963 · My Love Is Like a Rose as Pajen
- 1963 · Raven's End as Sixten
- 1962 · Trängningen as Fredriksson
- 1960 · Julkalendern as Pettson