Biography
Per Oscar Heinrich Oscarsson (28 January 1927 – 31 December 2010) was a Swedish actor. He is best known for his role in the 1966 film Hunger, which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Per Oscarsson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Året var 1966
2016
as Self (archive footage)
1966 - when Bob Dylan visits Sweden and Prime Minister Erlander has a difficult time with questions about housing. A special evening at the opera is a...
The Director Who Disappeared: The Story of The Ninja Mission
2013
as Himself (archive footage)
Documentary about Swedish director, Mats Helge Olsson, an illiterate Swedish director most noted in his home country for debuting with the first "Ling...

The Quiet Game
2011
as Oscar
Three women inherit a manor from a lady called Dolores whom none of them knows. The women are complete strangers to each other, so they meet up at the...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2009
as Holger Palmgren
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual rel...

The Girl Who Played with Fire
2009
as Holger Palmgren
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. S...

Mick Øgendahl: UNDSKYLD!
2006
as Gubben
Mick Øgendahl's "cinema comedy show" from his 2006 tour, a hybrid of live stand-up and fiction featuring Kim Bodnia.

Young Andersen
2005
as H.C. Andersens farfar
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Ander...

The Bouncer
2003
as Karl
Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbea...

Midsummer
2003
as Persson
It is the last day of school for Christian and his younger sister Sophie. They are heading to a party at his friend Trina. High school graduation is j...

Send Mere Slik
2001
as Rasmus
Two smart city girls, Angelica (12) and Lone (9), are sent on summer vacation to stay with a couple of distant old relatives in an even more distant p...

Herr Von Hancken
2000
as Herr von Hancken

White Water Fury
2000
as Åke
Four young men – Luke, Simon, Anders and John – are on the gang’s annual outing. During the trip down the river the four meet sisters Marie and Susann...

En lek på blodigt allvar
1999
as Self
Göran Gentele (1917 - 1972) was a Swedish actor, director, and opera manager. He studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school 1944-46, follow...

Per Oscarsson - Bakom rubrikerna och replikerna
1998
as Self
Documentary about the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson mostly consisting of long interviews with him in his home on a farm.

Stormen
1998
as Gonzalo
Set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusio...

Little Big Sister
1998
as Dance Judge
The second film of the trilogy, "It is forbidden for children". The family is pushed into depression and the heavy drinking mother Skrubsak does not h...

Rika barn leka bäst
1997
as Vilhelm
Six women get fired from a bank while the director gets a huge raise.

Germans
1997
as Prof. Sonnenbruch
A story about a German family during World War II with every family member having a different approach to Jews, raging from hatred to compassion.

The Last Viking
1997
as Skrælling
The son of Viking Harald is left behind in his village with women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against th...

Christmas Oratorio
1996
as Fälldin
The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sun...

Harry & Sonja
1996
as Harry's Father
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja.

Kan du vissla Johanna?
1994
as Nils
Young Berra has a friend, Ulf. Ulf has a grandfather which he likes very much, he gives Ulf presents and takes him on fishing trips. Berra doesn't hav...

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
1994
as Piano player
A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.

En nypa mull - vad är vi mer?
1993

Dreaming of Rita
1993
as Bob
When Bob's wife dies, he's determined to find Sabine, a woman he loved 30 years before. Even though he's had little to do with his daughter Rita, he b...

House of Angels
1992
as Erik Zander
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative F...
Fasadklättraren
1991
as Larsson
Phillip, an 18 year old boy knows only one thing. How to climb...

Bulan
1990
as The poet
"The Bump" - A factory worker get a sharp bump on his head after having collided with a lamppost. This incident causes him to leave his square daily l...

Kurt Olsson - filmen om mitt liv som mej själv
1990
as Personell Manager Lindroth
How did Kurt become who he was? Why was he never elected class monitor? When did Arne come into the picture? And what happened when this dynamic duo d...

1939
1989
as Isak
When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market b...

Venus 90
1988
as The wreck
A film crew travels out in a future Europe to make a documentary about the birds and threats to the ecological contexts. The motto of the film has bee...

Storm
1988
A gentleman, who likes to tell himself that he lives a life of quiet calm and resignation, gets a visit from his brother one day and mysterious things...

No Robbers in the Woods
1988
as Fiolito
A short movie based on a script written by children's author Astrid Lindgren.

Ondskans år
1987
as The Estate Owner
Spring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year old Ragnar grows up in a home where the parents look ...

The Headsman and the Harlot
1986
as Bailiff
Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both despise...

Nattseilere
1986
as With
Outer Senja in 1877. A young girl is found apparently lifeless among flotsam and seaweed. The storm has washed her ashore. Miraculously, they revive h...

Vilde, the Wild One
1986
as The Vicar
In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them o...

Da Capo
1985
as Eino
Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not ...

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
1984
as Borka
Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, bra...

Vargen
1984
as Arnold Wolf
The Wolf family reflects the crisis the country is in after suffering war and occupation. A resistance movement takes power after a foreign occupation...

Henrietta
1983
as Einar
Pettersson is a hard working director in the porn industry with two strippers and a naked gay in his shows. One day, after a little bridge accident, h...

Story of Small and Large Rabbit
1982
as Narrator (voice)
The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel.

Who Pulled the Plug?
1981
as Ulf Svensson
To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenbur...

Montenegro
1981
as Dr. Aram Pazardjian
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk ...
Hans Christian and the Geographic Society
1981
as Georg
Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographic association aiming at increased understanding be...

The Sleep of Death
1980
as Colonel Gaillard
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into ...

Sverige åt svenskarna
1980
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patient...

Sverige åt svenskarna
1980
Production Design, Writer, Producer
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patient...

Tvingad att leva
1980
as Doctor
A writer and his girlfriend are attacked by a homicidal madman.
Outrage
1980
Sweden in 1990. Eight years of ongoing Civil war. Three men are holding several people hostage in an apartment.

Heja Sverige!
1979
Heja Sverige! presents a lot of short sequences in the 'candid camera' style.

Heja Sverige!
1979
Writer
Heja Sverige! presents a lot of short sequences in the 'candid camera' style.

Charlotte Löwensköld
1979
as Pontus Friman
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeepe...

Kristoffers hus
1979
as Kräftan
Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support...
Vad händer…?
1979
Short film commissioned by the Swedish Association of Civil Engineers.

Chez Nous
1978
as Schrenk
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and st...

The Adventures of Picasso
1978
as Apollinaire
A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before an...

The Brothers Lionheart
1977
as Orvar
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyr...

The Assignment
1977
as Sixto
A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups.

Dagny
1977
as August Strindberg
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than ...

Terror of Frankenstein
1977
as The Monster
Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.
The Metamorphosis
1976
A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous beetle.

A Stranger Came by Train
1974
as Johan Gustavsson
An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of t...

Dream City
1973
as Florian Sand
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.

Inferno
1973
as August Strindberg
August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Ed...

Ebon Lundin
1973
as Ebon Lundin
Ebon Lundin is the anonymous but odd living man, who becomes a Christ-like, misunderstood figure who suffer much scorn and derision of the cruel reali...

The Blockhouse
1973
as Lund
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies ...

Ebon Lundin
1973
Writer, Producer, Director
Ebon Lundin is the anonymous but odd living man, who becomes a Christ-like, misunderstood figure who suffer much scorn and derision of the cruel reali...

Endless Night
1972
as Santonix
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famo...

The New Land
1972
as Pastor Törner
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, ...

Secrets
1971
as Raoul Kramer
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.

The Night Visitor
1971
as Dr. Anton Jenks
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.

The Last Valley
1971
as Father Sebastian
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of sol...

Love Is War
1970
as mannen med ønskekvisten
In this film, Norwegian writer, director, cameraman and musician Ragnar Lasse has fashioned an intricate, exquisitely photographed and multilayered ex...

Miss and Mrs Sweden
1969
as Jonne
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is plannin...

Honeycomb
1969
as Pedro
Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into hor...

Between Us
1969
as Per Olofsson
A man lives with his family in a small community. He is seen as a deviant, abnormal person by society.

Between Us
1969
Writer
A man lives with his family in a small community. He is seen as a deviant, abnormal person by society.

An-Magritt
1969
as Hedström
In Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape.

Waltz of Sex
1968
as The Baptiser
When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by ...

Doctor Glas
1968
as Dr. Glas
Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway ...

A Dandy in Aspic
1968
as Pavel
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is ...

Who Saw Him Die?
1968
as Sören Mårtensson
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by n...

Twelfth Night
1967
as Andreas Blek af Nosen
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Here Is Your Life
1966
as Niklas
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

Noon Wine
1966
as Olaf Helton
A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in southern Texas during the 1890s. Sam Peckinpah direct...
Patrasket
1966
as Joe Meng
A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.

Hunger
1966
as Pontus
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is de...

The D.T.'s
1966
as Guest
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum char...

Doktor Knock
1966
as Mousquet
Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.

My Sister My Love
1966
as Jacob
Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is e...

Bödeln
1965
"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangm...

Är du inte riktigt klok?
1964
as The Man Without Qualities
Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with anothe...

Adam och Eva
1963
as Reverend Helge
Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous.

Det är hos mig han har varit
1963
as Hans Treve
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that ...

Det är hos mig han har varit
1963
as Hans
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that ...

The Doll
1962
as Lundgren
A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home, where...
Ticket to Paradise
1962
as Freddo Rossi
A young woman owns a garden center outside Stockholm. Her two employees, a Swede and an Italian, has private dreams and desires to meet. The Italian p...

Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
1961
as Lars-Ove Larsson
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...

Miss April
1958
as Sverker Ek
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osva...

Kärlek på turné
1955
as Oskar Ölander
"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.

Vildfåglar
1955
as Nisse
"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience ...

Karin Månsdotter
1954
as Anders
Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsell...

Möte med livet
1953
as Robert
Gun and Robert are in love, but both are unfaithful during Robert's military service. For Gun, this results in her becoming pregnant and for Robert an...

We Three Debutantes
1953
as Lillebror Brummer
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.

Barabbas
1953
as Boy
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Defiance
1952
A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his ...

Leva på 'Hoppet'
1951
as Per
A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat.

Vi flyger på Rio
1949
When the airline captain Curt Åhs comes home one day he discovers that his wife is unfaithful. Later he and the flight attendant Berit shares an adven...

Son of the Sea
1949
as Rolf Bakken
The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son ha...

Gatan
1949
as Åke Rodelius
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes...

Det vackraste på jorden
1947
Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in Stockholm. On the ground floor is a tobacconist, whose o...

Ungdom i fara
1946
as Stickan
A young man with a messy background stands trial for car theft. He gets away with a suspended sentence. With the help of a social worker, he gets on t...

Kristin Commands
1946
as Jan Westman
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as paren...

The Serious Game
1945
as Filip Stille (Lydia's Brother) (uncredited)
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....

Flickor i hamn
1945
as Young Man (uncredited)
Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.

Prince Gustaf
1944
as Prince August
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story...

Young Eagles
1944
as Young Man (uncredited)
The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.