Rolf Lassgård

Rolf Lassgård

1955-03-29 Östersund, Jämtland, Sverige 64 Credits

Biography

Rolf Holger Lassgård, born March 29, 1955 in Östersund, Jämtland, is a Swedish actor. Lassgård has been nominated for Guldbaggen award six times, of which he won two; for My Big Fat Father and A man called Ove.

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Bamse and the Secret of The Sea

2025

as Bamse (voice)

Acting

Bamse, Little Skutt and Skalman go out into open water and far down to the bottom of the sea. And Captain Buster is willing to do anything to earn the...

When in Rome

When in Rome

2024

as Johannes

7.0
Acting

Gerda and Kristoffer are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in Rome, where Gerda used to study art when she was young. But the trip doesn't go...

Bamse and the World's Smallest Adventure

Bamse and the World's Smallest Adventure

2023

as Bamse (voice)

5.6
Acting

Nalle-Maja is with the family on a picnic, but no one seems to want to play with her. When she drinks XYZ juice alone and becomes tiny, everything tak...

Second Act

Second Act

2023

as Harald

6.6
Acting

The great star of the Royal Dramatic Theatre has fallen ill, and must be cared for at home by a talkative, insecure woman who, over time, finds it dif...

Surprise

Surprise

2023

as Tom

Acting

As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped. Instead,...

Love Proof

Love Proof

2022

as Thomas

5.0
Acting

Thomas and Marie are getting divorced and must meet one last weekend to empty and sell their summer house. Neither one of them knows the other's real ...

Quiet Freedom

Quiet Freedom

2022

as Erik

5.1
Acting

Erik, recently retired, is looking forward to some post-work adventure and to enjoy his family. These plans are thrown into doubt as the harsh reality...

Bamse and the Volcano Island

Bamse and the Volcano Island

2021

as Bamse (voice)

5.8
Acting

The classic trio in the Bamse universe; Bamse, Lille Skutt och Skalman, is going on a thrilling adventure to the centre of the earth. Their mission is...

Chess Story

Chess Story

2021

as Owen McConnor

7.0
Acting

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo...

My Father Marianne

My Father Marianne

2020

as Lasse / Marianne

6.2
Acting

Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.

The Spy

The Spy

2019

as Akrell

6.1
Acting

Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German...

Downsizing

Downsizing

2017

as Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen

5.4
Acting

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...

Winnerbäck - A Kind of Life

Winnerbäck - A Kind of Life

2017

as Self

6.3
Acting

Lars Winnerbäck is one of Sweden's biggest artists for 15 years. At the same time he is one of those we know least about. Now Winnerbäck celebrates 20...

The Lion Woman

The Lion Woman

2016

as Gustav

6.9
Acting

Eva Arctander is born with hypertrichosis, meaning that she is covered from head to toe with fine blonde hair. Her father is so ashamed of her that he...

Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott

Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott

2016

as Self (archive footage)

5.0
Acting

The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in s...

A Man Called Ove

A Man Called Ove

2015

as Ove

7.6
Acting

Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist....

Fatal News

Fatal News

2015

as Ray Steenkamp

Acting

West Germany, 1987. The politician Uwe Barschel (1944-87), member of the Christian Democratic Union party and Minister-President of the Schleswig-Hols...

Miraklet i Viskan

Miraklet i Viskan

2015

as Bjarne

5.3
Acting

Bjarne runs a moving company with his wife Malin, but it is shaky and they need to borrow money. Across the river lives Bjarnes father Halvar. The two...

Rolf Lassgård – Ett Porträtt

Rolf Lassgård – Ett Porträtt

2014

as Self

10.0
Acting

Portrait of one of Sweden's most popular actors; Rolf Lassgård. He is known for many of his roles in the Wallander films, The Hunters and My Big Fat F...

Uferlos!

Uferlos!

2013

as Mikkel Nordergren

4.0
Acting

Swede Mikkel Nordergren unexpectedly inherits a lakeside property with a house in Brandenburg from his deceased father. Much to the chagrin of his nei...

False Trail

False Trail

2011

as Erik Bäckström

6.1
Acting

The Interrogator Erik Backstrom is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters ...

Kennedy's Brain

Kennedy's Brain

2010

as Prof. Hellstrom

Acting

A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursui...

So Different

So Different

2009

as Martin Larsson

4.5
Acting

Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted t...

Starring Maja

Starring Maja

2009

as Self

6.3
Acting

In a hopeless small town in Sweden, lives Maja, 18 years old. Her highest and only dream is to become an actress. She wants to be the center of attent...

Storm

Storm

2009

as Jonas Dahlberg

6.1
Acting

Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her m...

A Rational Solution

A Rational Solution

2009

as Erland Fjellgren

6.0
Acting

Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when th...

Ellas Geheimnis

2009

Acting
House of Fools

House of Fools

2008

as Freiner

6.2
Acting

At the psychiatric clinic Varden the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane.

Angel

Angel

2008

as Rick

3.6
Acting

Angelica "Angel" Holst was a celebrated rockstar in the '80s, but since then her fame and popularity has faded. Now it's time to step back into the sp...

The Pyramid

The Pyramid

2007

as Kurt Wallander

5.8
Acting

The film is set in the middle of winter in Ystad and the main character is the middle-aged policeman Kurt Wallander, who this time investigating a dru...

Black Island Sisters

Black Island Sisters

2007

as Kurre

2.0
Acting

The lives of three working class women in northern Sweden.

To Love Someone

To Love Someone

2007

as Alf

5.4
Acting

Lena lives a safe and happy life with her husband Alf and together they run a fish shop. No one who sees her can imagine what kind of hell she has gon...

After the Wedding

After the Wedding

2006

as Jørgen

7.1
Acting

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

One Step Behind

One Step Behind

2005

as Wallander

5.5
Acting

Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is beli...

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

2004

as Deafy

5.6
Acting

Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likenes...

Three Suns

Three Suns

2004

as Torben Barberare

2.7
Acting

An epic drama set in the 14th century. Hanna leaves her family to meet her husband after 4 years spent in the East during a long war. Hanna will find ...

Capricciosa

Capricciosa

2003

as Henrik's Father

4.8
Acting

Henrik is seventeen years old and dreams of becoming a professional soccer player. He lives with his parents and two siblings, Johanna and Oliver, in ...

Family Secrets

Family Secrets

2001

as Bosse Bendricks

4.9
Acting

Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, u...

Gossip

Gossip

2000

as Magnus Wiktorsson

3.2
Acting

A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.

Where The Rainbow Ends

Where The Rainbow Ends

1999

as Rajje - Raymond

3.5
Acting

"Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in th...

The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter

The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter

1999

as Selander

5.0
Acting

A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and cla...

Under the Sun

Under the Sun

1998

as Olof

5.8
Acting

Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps ...

Their Frozen Dream

Their Frozen Dream

1997

as Knut Frænkel (voice)

5.9
Acting

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).

The White Lioness

The White Lioness

1996

as Wallander

5.0
Acting

In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization....

Such Is Life

Such Is Life

1996

as Olle Sundqvist

4.1
Acting

Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then...

The Potato Seller

The Potato Seller

1996

as Sture

5.7
Acting

In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm. Marta driv...

The Hunters

The Hunters

1996

as Erik Bäckström

6.5
Acting

A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-r...

The Dogs of Riga

The Dogs of Riga

1995

as Kurt Wallander

5.8
Acting

A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. Th...

The Tears of Saint Peter

The Tears of Saint Peter

1995

as Mayor

2.7
Acting

Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in mediavel Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Pet...

Stockholm Marathon

Stockholm Marathon

1994

as Gunvald Larsson

5.0
Acting

A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.

Sommarmord

1994

as 'Backhammer', chief of police

4.5
Acting

Sture is a rich alcoholic who has taken a trip to Mallorca to drink himself to death. But he meets Sylvia and they start a relationship. Sture moves i...

Cop Killer

Cop Killer

1994

as Gunvald Larsson

5.9
Acting

A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects...

The Man on the Balcony

The Man on the Balcony

1993

as Gunvald Larsson

6.2
Acting

A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a...

Murder at the Savoy

Murder at the Savoy

1993

as Gunvald Larsson

5.6
Acting

A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockholm gets the case. The suspects lead to people inv...

Roseanna

Roseanna

1993

as Gunvald Larsson

5.9
Acting

A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the mur...

The Slingshot

The Slingshot

1993

as Prisoner

6.1
Acting

Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from...

The Story of the Father Who Baked Princesses

The Story of the Father Who Baked Princesses

1993

Acting

The father is sitting up in a skylift, and he is telling a fairy tale to his daughter. Wherever he moves during the day, in power stations, in old caf...

The Fire Engine That Disappeared

The Fire Engine That Disappeared

1993

as Gunvald Larsson

5.6
Acting

A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investiga...

My Big Fat Father

My Big Fat Father

1992

as Fritz Algot 'Tjaffo' Nilsson

5.3
Acting

Summer of 1959. 11-year old Osvald spend his summer holiday with his parents in the countryside of Södermanland. His father has promised to play socce...

Önskas

Önskas

1991

as Bosse

Acting

A forty something man, Bosse, perpetually down on his luck but always optimistic, hopes to impress his new girlfriend by accepting a job as headwaiter...

Kyrkkaffe

1989

Acting

There are technical problems in the church and Mrs. Lindblom is the only one who has appeared at the mass, but the priest decides to carry out his ser...

Limpan

Limpan

1983

7.0
Acting

Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the ho...

The Swimmer

N/A

as Odvar

Acting

The story of an adrenaline junkie who travels the globe in search of the most tumultuous rivers to swim with no kayak, and no protection. But there's ...

Arne Goes to Space

N/A

Acting

An alien crashes his spaceship in northern Sweden and has to help two quarrelling brothers with hunting disputes and wood chopping.