Biography
Carl Gustav Lennart Jähkel, born September 27, 1956 in Piteå in Norrbotten county, is a Swedish actor. Lennart Jähkel was born in Piteå but grew up in Timrå and is the son of Carl Jähkel and Carin. He has German roots on his father's side. Lennart Jähkel studied at the Statens scenskola in Malmö 1979–1982 and has since been involved in various theatres. He is also a film actor and was nominated for a Guldbagge award for his work in Suxxess (2002) and Så som i himmelen (2004). Since 1996, he has...
Known For
Complete Filmography

What Happened?
2025
An absurd and star-studded exciting mix of feature film and animation that explores human behavior!
Aktionen
2025

Arne Meets Death
2022
as (voice)
The year is 1995. It knocks on the door of 'Greedy Arne' Nyman's dilapidated house. It is Death who has come to take him. Greedy Arne is not worried o...

Arne Meets Death
2022
Driver
The year is 1995. It knocks on the door of 'Greedy Arne' Nyman's dilapidated house. It is Death who has come to take him. Greedy Arne is not worried o...

A Day After Work
2022
as Leif
A man comes home after work. His wife and bird hate him.

Finito
2021
as Ove Sjöström
The Swedish engineer Eugene Laestander has pushed the climate crisis to the history books, but mankind has not yet come to terms with its own worst en...

Awaiting Death
2019
as Isaksson
A man arrives at the hospital to see his father on his deathbed. He would like to have a last good time with him, but the father worries above all abo...

Swoon
2019
as Johan Lindgren
John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world they both inhabit. A forbidden love and a...
Real Men Smell Like Diesel
2018
as Roland
Partial to provocation, Aaron's mysterious visitors take a step too far when they move his cherished red model car. Why won't they just leave him alon...

Rå
2018
as Harald
Rå is the story of an initiation. Sixteen-year-old Linn longs to be admitted to her father’s community of hunters. She has long been familiar with the...

Brothers in Midnight Sun
2016
as Arne
Two brothers, Leif and Arne, are on a fishing trip. Leif is a whiner and criticizes Arne and almost everything, but the conversation leads to more imp...

Granny's Dancing on the Table
2015
as The Father
Eini grows up isolated from society with her father who does everything he can to make Eini believe that the world outside and the people out there ar...

Heaven on Earth
2015
as Arne
A life-affirming story about how the power of love, music and dance can change people. This is a standalone sequel to "As it is in Heaven".
Pelé Penguin Comes to Town
2015
When the fish runs out at the South Pole, Pelé Penguin and his parents are forced to move to his uncle Fernandez in Stockholm. Pelé has trouble adjust...

Beyond Beyond
2014
as Feather King (voice)
Beyond Beyond is a story about wanting the impossible. A story about a little rabbit boy not old enough to understand the rules of life, who takes up ...

The Fjällbacka Murders: The Queen of Lights
2013
as Mellberg
On a crystal clear, starry and bitingly cold winter night a young woman dressed in the traditional Lucia white gown is seen running across the ice whi...

The Fjällbacka Murders: The Coast Rider
2013
as Mellberg
The young coast guard and diver Jessica finds two dead scuba divers after a storm. She disagrees with her superiors that it was an accident and seeks ...

The Fjällbacka Murders: The Sea Gives, the Sea Takes
2013
as Mellberg
When Erica finds Fjällbacka's photographer Stigge murdered in his studio, she can't help but take interest in the investigation regarding his death. P...

The Fjällbacka Murders - The Hidden Child
2013
as Mellberg
Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.

Home Improvement
2013
as Bengt
Bengt has been left in a heartbroken state. His ex wife will come back and pick up the last moving box. Bengt decides to make one last attempt to conv...

The Fjällbacka Murders: Friends for Life
2013
as Mellberg
The successful detective writer, Erica Falck, is thinking that her next book should be based on a true mysterious event from her childhood. When she w...

The Fjällbacka Murders: In the Eye of the Beholder
2012
as Mellberg
Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs i...

Fuck Up
2012
as Leopold
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and e...
The Sea
2009
Pelle and Agneta are both around 60 years of age; they′ve been a couple for many years. Although Pelle is not in the best of health they are both deli...
Sara & Draken
2007
as Jägaren
A funny, exciting, and somewhat sad story about seven-year-old Sara, who accidentally strays from her class during a forest outing. She falls into an ...

Wallander: The Secret
2006
as Greger Frankman
11-year-old Johannes is found raped and murdered. Investigations lead to a pedophile ring and detective Stefan Lindman's dark secret.

Pistvakt
2005
as Sven-Erik Marklund
Three middle aged brothers is living home in a Godforsaken skiing resort in the northernmost part of Sweden and sees their life change when their fath...

Sex hopp och kärlek
2005
as Lennart
A drama about the power of Love, the lust for Sex, and the need for Hope. Birgit is stuck in an uneventful, everyday life with her husband Lennart and...

Popular Music
2004
as Einari
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, ...

As It Is in Heaven
2004
as Arne
A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple every...

Full fart med Mulle Meck
2004
as Mulle Meck
How does a boat work? When did you start building boats? When did the first trains come? Mulle Meck talks about all this and much more in the second f...

Kitchen Stories
2003
as Green
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is ...

Mulle Meck bygger
2003
as Mulle Meck
Once Mulle Meck decided to build a car to see what it looked like where the road ended. He came to an ocean and in order to see what was on the other ...

Suxxess
2002
as James
A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He's op...

Utanför din dörr
2002
as Lasse, Sanna's Father
After losing his parents in an accident, André quits his job and moves to a small town.

Besvärliga människor
2001
"Dificult People" - About the production process when Suzanne Osten directs the theater play ”Difficult people”, written by Nils Gredeby. It is a play...

Shit Happens
2000
as Director
A young couple, Sophia and Freddie has just got their first baby, but this little thing makes their lives way to complicated and difficult for them to...

Reply with Photo
1999
as Sven
The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian wo...

Lusten till ett liv
1999
as Ragnar
The rise and fall of the "progg"-band "Verket".

Beneath the Surface
1997
as Nils Lundgren, Sandra's father
23-year old Sandra has been doing drugs for many years and has realized that she is in need of some kind of treatment. At the clinic she is told that ...

Play Off
1997
as Kenneth
Johan is a 35 year old soccer fan, unemployed but living by his wits and charm. During the Soccer World Championships in 1990 all Swedes want to follo...

The Hunters
1996
as Leif Bäckström
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...
Sommarmord
1994
as Reporter
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...

Nordexpressen
1992
as Polischef Dahlberg
John Andersson is the action hero who saves the world from evil villains.

Have a Wonderful Life
1992
as Hotel drunk
Per is doing his military service when he finds out that his girlfriend back home in Stockholm is having an affair. He goes AWOL and tries to find a w...

Infödingen
1991
as The native/trapper Elov
"The Native" - About a trapper Elov Jonsson who meets the famous pop artist Bie. The meeting has consequences.

Revisorn
1990
as Ivan, Postmästaren
When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes fu...
Arne Goes to Space
N/A
An alien crashes his spaceship in northern Sweden and has to help two quarrelling brothers with hunting disputes and wood chopping.