Tore Svennberg

Tore Svennberg

Olof Teodor "Tore" Svennberg (28 February 1858 – 8 May 1941) was a Swedish actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than five decades. Born in Stockholm, Tore Svennberg made his stage debut at the Folkan Theatre in his hometown in 1877. From 1878 to 1891 he was engaged with various national touring theatre companies with actress Julia Håkansson and was from time to time cast by Swedish stage director Albert Ranft. At the Swedish Theatre, he played in several August Strindberg dramas: Gustav Vasa, starred in Erik XIV in 1899, A Dream Play in 1907 and The Dance of Death in 1919. He also appeared in many roles by Henrik Ibsen: as Helmer in A Doll's House in 1889, as Hjalmar Ekdahl in The Wild Duck in 1891 and as Borkman in John Gabriel Borkman in 1897. In 1920, Svennberg was engaged at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he later became director from 1922 to 1928. He managed to attract audiences by focusing on classics and foreign plays. Svennberg also appeared in a number of films, beginning in the Victor Sjöström-directed 1919 drama Sons of Ingmar, based on the novel Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf, and performed in his last film role at the age of 82 in Per Lindberg's 1940 drama Stål. He is possibly best recalled internationally for his role as Magnus Barring in the 1938 film A Woman's Face opposite actress Ingrid Bergman.

  • Title: Tore Svennberg
  • Popularity: 1.235
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1858-02-28
  • Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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Tore Svennberg Movies

  • 1938
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    A Woman's Face

    A Woman's Face

    6.1 1938 HD

    A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic...

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  • 1921
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    The Phantom Carriage

    The Phantom Carriage

    7.821 1921 HD

    An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the...

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  • 1920
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    The Monastery of Sendomir

    The Monastery of Sendomir

    6.3 1920 HD

    Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.

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  • 1919
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    Sons of Ingmar

    Sons of Ingmar

    6.6 1919 HD

    Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

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  • 1933
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    Vad veta väl männen?

    Vad veta väl männen?

    1 1933 HD

    Hjalmar Björklund and his daughter Margit runs a second-hand bookshop in a small Swedish town.

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  • 1921
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    A Wild Bird

    A Wild Bird

    5 1921 HD

    A woman searches for the child she gave up at birth.

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  • 1940
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    Steel

    Steel

    1 1940 HD

    The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from...

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  • 1935
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    Ocean Breakers

    Ocean Breakers

    6 1935 HD

    Daniel has been forced by his father to become a priest. After graduating, he comes to a parish in Hälsingland. During one stormy night, he...

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  • 1922
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    Love's Crucible

    Love's Crucible

    6.3 1922 HD

    At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to...

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  • 1929
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    The Dream Waltz

    The Dream Waltz

    1 1929 HD

    This is the story of Olof Svensson who works as a streetcar conductor in Stockholm. In his free time he is a music composer.

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  • 1930
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    Frida's Songs

    Frida's Songs

    1 1930 HD

    Frida lives in a small idyllic town called Little Paris.

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