Biography
Viveca Lindfors (1920-1995) was a renowned Swedish-American actress known for her versatility and captivating performances on stage, in film, and on television. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, Lindfors developed a passion for the performing arts from a young age, honing her craft at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. In 1946, Lindfors was brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would become a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman - two of Sweden's most famous cinemat...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "wor...
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
as Helena Mora
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Be...
Run For Cover
1995
as Senator Anderson
Former KGB plot a terrorist attack on New York City.
Stargate
1994
as Catherine
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Backstreet Justice
1994
as Mrs. Robovit
A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation as a corrupt cop.
Zelda
1993
Famous 1920s modernist writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he...
Minns ni?
1993
as (archive footage)
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
A profile of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, on his 30 years in the industry.
Exiled in America
1992
as Dr. Helena Lindenhaim
A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is...
Zandalee
1991
as Tatta
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative an...
Child of Darkness, Child of Light
1991
as Ida Walsh
A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child ...
The Linguini Incident
1991
as Miracle
A waitress, a barman and an underwear designer try to rob the New York restaurant where two of them work.
The Exorcist III
1990
as Nurse X
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when...
Goin' to Chicago
1990
About left wing students in 1964.
Misplaced
1989
as Zofia
The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life in the free world.
Going Undercover
1988
as Mrs. Bellinger
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to Den...
The Ann Jillian Story
1988
as Ann's Mother
Ann Jillian finds out she has cancer and the movie shows how she deals with that (the hospital treatments and impact on her life).
Rachel River
1988
as Harriet White
A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
Freckled Max and the Spooks
1987
as Baronka
A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by m...
Unfinished Business
1987
as Helena
Helena, a stage actress is confronted by Ferenc, a Hungarian who left her 15 years before to return to Europe, where he now runs a state-subsidized th...
Unfinished Business
1987
Writer, Director
Helena, a stage actress is confronted by Ferenc, a Hungarian who left her 15 years before to return to Europe, where he now runs a state-subsidized th...
Secret Weapons
1985
as Aunt Rosa Koslov
Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.
The Sure Thing
1985
as Professor Taub
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At f...
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
1984
as Dr. Rice
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Silent Madness
1984
as Mrs. Collins
A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.
Passions
1984
as Lila
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make h...
A Doctor's Story
1984
as Mrs. Kristina Karlberg
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
Creepshow
1982
as Aunt Bedelia (segment "Father's Day")
Five tales in the style of classic '50s horror comics, involving a murdered man emerging from the grave, a meteor's ooze that makes everything grow, a...
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Gypsy woman
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
1982
as Barbara Harper
Successful divorce lawyer Jack Sturgess discovers that his own marriage is falling apart and must juggle his domestic conflicts with his clients' prob...
For Ladies Only
1981
as Rachel Loring
An aspiring young actor moonlights as a male stripper while looking for work in the theatre.
The Best Little Girl in the World
1981
as Madame Seurat
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self...
The Hand
1981
as Doctress
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon retur...
Marilyn: The Untold Story
1980
as Natasha Lytess
The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her marriages and un...
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980
as Grandma Bergman
Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo M...
Playing for Time
1980
as Frau Schmidt
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using th...
Natural Enemies
1979
as Psychiatrist
Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a deci...
Natural Enemies
1979
as Dr. Baker
Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a deci...
Voices
1979
as Mrs. Lemon
An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer.
A Wedding
1978
as Ingrid Hellstrom
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as...
Girlfriends
1978
as Beatrice
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get...
A Question of Guilt
1978
as Dr. Rosen
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
Tabu
1977
as Sirkka Lind
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of...
Welcome to L.A.
1976
as Susan Moore
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a s...
The Tenth Level
1976
as Mrs. Schnagel
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis...
Bell from Hell
1974
as Marta
When John is released from a psychiatric center where he has been hospitalized for a long time, he decides to move into the house of his dead mother, ...
The Way We Were
1973
as Paula Reisner
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in t...
A House Without Boundaries
1972
as Señorita Elvira
Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age, a former member. He takes...
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
1970
as Paula Galba
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her a...
Cauldron of Blood
1970
as Tania Badulescu
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife a...
Coming Apart
1969
as Monica
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.
The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
as Petronella Van Daan
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Oscuros sueños de agosto
1967
as Isabel
Isabel returns to Spain, after several years of absence, to be cured of a neurosis. His daughter Ana, whom he has not seen in all this time, decides t...
Brainstorm
1965
as Dr. Elizabeth Larstadt
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
Sylvia
1965
as Irma Olanski
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator n...
Fanfare for a Death Scene
1964
as Ala Sarah
An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up ...
An Affair of the Skin
1963
as Victoria
A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.
The Damned
1962
as Freya Neilson
An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on childre...
No Exit
1962
as Inez
The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two ...
Five Fingers : The Temple of the Swinging Doll
1961
as Madame Zapote
An edited version of an episode of the television series, Five Fingers released in theaters.
King of Kings
1961
as Claudia
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet th...
Weddings and Babies
1960
as Bea
A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.
The Story of Ruth
1960
as Eleilat
Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow wit...
Tempest
1958
as Catherine II
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he c...
I Accuse!
1958
as Lucie Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac...
The Last Tycoon
1957
as Kathleen Moore
Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
The Halliday Brand
1957
as Aleta Burris
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
Rendezvous in Black
1956
as Martine
Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by killing the loved ones of the passengers on the fli...
Moonfleet
1955
as Mrs. Minton
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old frien...
Run for Cover
1955
as Helga Swenson
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
No Time for Flowers
1952
as Anna Svoboda
A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.
The Raiders
1952
as Elena de Ortega
A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered...
Journey Into Light
1951
as Christine Thorssen
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunk...
Four in a Jeep
1951
as Franziska Idinger
Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
The Flying Missile
1950
as Karin Hansen
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Dark City
1950
as Victoria Winant
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
This Side of the Law
1950
as Evelyn Taylor
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with...
No Sad Songs for Me
1950
as Chris Radna
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daught...
Backfire
1950
as Lysa Radoff
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on th...
The Wind Is My Lover
1949
as Singoalla
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet...
Night Unto Night
1949
as Ann Gracy
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by inc...
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
as Rainha Margarida
Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under thr...
To the Victor
1948
as Christine Lund Lestrac
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
Interlude
1946
as Vellamo Toivonen
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be qui...
The Serious Game
1945
as Lydia Stille
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true....
Svarta rosor
1945
A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the love...
Marie in the Windmill
1945
as Maria Holgersson
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of ...
Jag är eld och luft
1944
as Jenny Ahrman
Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when...
Nebbie sul mare
1944
as Maria Rosai
A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.
Appassionata
1944
as Maria
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
The Brothers' Woman
1943
as Emma
City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
The Sin of Anna Lans
1943
as Anna Lans
At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
Morgondagens melodi
1942
The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the ...
Yellow Ward
1942
as Nurse Doris
A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differentl...
If I Could Marry the Minister
1941
as Eva Örn
Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does...
I paradis ...
1941
as Angelica Jansson
The Stockholm publisher Adam, a wealthy gentleman with a favorable appearance, has completely undeservedly gained a reputation for being a great Don J...
Snurriga familjen
1940
as Cleaning woman
Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the ho...