Eddie Axberg

{{short description|Swedish actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = Eddie Axberg, 1966 (cropped).jpg | caption = Axberg in a scene from ''Here Is Your Life'' (1966) | name = Eddie Axberg | birth_name = Jan Eddie Axberg<ref name="birth">{{cite web|url=http://www.birthday.se/sok/?f=Eddie&l=Axberg |title=Eddie Axberg |access-date=6 May 2012 |work=birthday.se}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|7|9|df=yes}} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actor, sound engineer | years_active = 1959-present }} '''Jan Eddie Axberg''' (born 9 July 1947)<ref name="sfi">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=66470 |title=Eddie Axberg |access-date=3 December 2011 |work=Swedish Film Database |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311135352/http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=66470 |archive-date=11 March 2014 }}</ref> is a Swedish actor and audio engineer. He has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1959. At the 8th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Actor for his roles in ''The Emigrants'' and ''The New Land''.<ref name="8thGuldbagge">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=4865&iv=Awards |title=Utvandrarna (1971) |publisher=Swedish Film Institute |date=2 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220072341/http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?itemid=4865&type=MOVIE&iv=Awards |archive-date=20 February 2015 }}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Ticket to Paradise'' (1962) * ''Vi på Saltkråkan'' (1964) (TV) * ''Here's Your Life'' (1966) * ''Ormen'' (1966) * ''The Emigrants'' (1971) * ''The New Land'' (1972) * ''A Guy and a Gal'' (1975) * ''Maria'' (1975) * ''City of My Dreams'' (1976) * ''To Be a Millionaire'' (1980) * ''The Queen of Sheba's Pearls'' (2004) * ''Peter-No-Tail'' (Pelle Svanslös) (1981) (director together with Stig Lasseby; chief animator) * ''Peter-No-Tail in Americat'' (Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt) (1985) (director together with Stig Lasseby; layout artist)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0043453|name=Eddie Axberg}} * {{Sfdb name}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Axberg, Eddie}} Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century Swedish male actors Category:Swedish audio engineers Category:Male actors from Stockholm Category:20th-century Swedish male actors Category:Best Actor Guldbagge Award winners