Stig Ossian Ericson
Actor
- Born
- September 7, 1923 · Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden
- Died
- July 30, 2012 (age 88)
Stig Ossian Ericson (7 September 1923 - 30 July 2012) was a Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter.
Ericson was born in 1923 in Härnösand, but grew up in Nyköping. Graduating at the University of Uppsala where he had been involved in various theatrical performances at the Södermanlands-Nerikes nation, he began his professional career as a mathematics teacher. He changed into the theater track in the early 1960s when he participated in the Snudd revue at the Casino Theatre in Stockholm. He later worked with Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, Bo Widerberg and Beppe Wolgers.
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He is probably best known as Sigurd in the Swedish block buster Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?, lillebror's father in Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson på taket, and in the 1990s as Father Fouras in Fångarna på fortet, the Swedish version of French game show Fort Boyard.
Ericson died in 2012, at the age of 88, in Nacka east of Stockholm.
Known for
Port of Call
October 11, 1948
Who Pulled the Plug?
December 18, 1981
Karlsson on the Roof
December 2, 1974
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
March 17, 1975
The Man Who Quit Smoking
December 16, 1972
One-Week Bachelors
December 16, 1982
Stubby
February 16, 1974
To Be a Millionaire
May 17, 1980
Have a Wonderful Life
February 7, 1992
The Women on the Roof
September 15, 1989
Father to Be
December 1, 1979
Private Bom
December 10, 1948
Acting32
- 2006Adagio
- 1992Have a Wonderful Life as Newspaper editor
- 1991Facklorna as Ragnar Fors, chef på mejeriet
- 1989The Women on the Roof as Vicar
- 1988The Moon God
- 1987Idag Röd
- 1985Änglaverket as Melker
- 1982One-Week Bachelors as The Illusionist
- 1982Saddled With a Girl as Professor Bagge
- 1982Nattvägen
- 1981