{{Short description|Swedish actor (1934–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Ingvar Hirdwall | image = Ingvar Hirdwall 2009.JPG | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Hirdwall in 2009 | birth_name = Lars Ingvar Eriksson | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|12|05|df=y}} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|04|06|1934|12|05|df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1950–2023 | spouse = Marika Lindström {{marriage||1975}} | children = Jacob Hirdwall<br>Agnes Hirdwall | website = }}
'''Lars Ingvar Hirdwall''' (5 December 1934 – 6 April 2023) was a Swedish actor.<ref name=sfi>{{cite web | title=Ingvar Hirdwall | url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-film/Filmdatabasen/?type=PERSON&itemid=66729 | language=sv | publisher=Swedish Film Institute | access-date=28 January 2010 | archive-date=13 June 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613112302/https://www.filminstitutet.se/ | url-status=dead}}</ref> In Sweden he is best known for his role in the Martin Beck film series; internationally he was perhaps best known for his role as the lawyer Dirch Frode in the ''Millennium'' films.
==Characters== One of the country's most prolific stage and film actors, he is probably most widely recognised for his two heterogeneous roles in the Martin Beck universe; as the eponymous killer in Bo Widerberg's ''The Man on the Roof'' in 1976,<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.moviezine.se/nyheter/beck-grannen-dod-skadespelaren-ingvar-hirdwall-blev-88-ar|title="Beck-grannen" död – skådespelaren Ingvar Hirdwall blev 88 år|website=MovieZine|accessdate=7 April 2023|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407212431/https://www.moviezine.se/nyheter/beck-grannen-dod-skadespelaren-ingvar-hirdwall-blev-88-ar|url-status=live}}</ref> and the recurrent role as "The Neighbor" in the mass produced film series, a rambunctious raconteur who frequently interacts with the titular police investigator for the purpose of comic relief.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/EpjaQ3|title=Efter 24 år: Becks granne avslöjar varför han bär stödkrage|date=9 February 2021|newspaper=Aftonbladet|accessdate=7 April 2023|archive-date=20 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220194802/https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/EpjaQ3|url-status=live}}</ref> He also had a role in the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's ''Millennium'' series as the lawyer Dirch Frode, and starred as various colourful characters in Lars Molin's comedies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://omni.se/folkkara-skadespelaren-ingvar-hirdwall-ar-dod/a/wA4Rm1|title=Folkkära skådespelaren Ingvar Hirdwall är död|website=Omni|accessdate=7 April 2023|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407211823/https://omni.se/folkkara-skadespelaren-ingvar-hirdwall-ar-dod/a/wA4Rm1|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Career== Hirdwall was born in Stockholm, and was educated at Gothenburg City Theatre stage school 1957–1960. <ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/a/mQe541/skadespelaren-ingvar-hirdwall-dod|title=Skådespelaren Ingvar Hirdwall död|date=7 April 2023|accessdate=7 April 2023|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407205424/https://www.svd.se/a/mQe541/skadespelaren-ingvar-hirdwall-dod|url-status=live}}</ref> Since the early 1960s he has been active as an actor in many films and TV series and on theatrical stages, mainly the Stockholm City Theatre. <ref>[https://tkt.kulturhusetstadsteatern.se/press/pinfo/0000061700010.pdf Pressmeddelande – Ingvar Hirdwall i drömroll] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407224314/https://tkt.kulturhusetstadsteatern.se/press/pinfo/0000061700010.pdf |date=7 April 2023 }} Stadsteatern. Retrieved 7 April 2023.</ref> He also worked at Oscarsteatern, with productions like West Side Story.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=10 April 2023|title=West Side Story|url=http://calmview.musikverk.se/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=PERF25690&pos=173|work=Musikverket|archive-date=11 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411071350/https://calmview.musikverk.se/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=PERF25690&pos=173|url-status=live}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> As well as Chinateatern, with the play "Revisorn" alongside his Beck-lead Peter Haber. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150624015559/http://www.chinateatern.se/show/revisorn/ REVISORN En fars/komedi av Nikolaj Gogol] Chinateatern. Retrieved 10 April 2023.</ref> He is well known in Sweden, often portraying obstinate or strange characters. His most well-recognised role in his closing decades was as the eccentric “The Neighbor”, a rambunctious raconteur living next to the eponymous homicide investigator Martin Beck and often providing comic relief, and occasionally (unintentionally) vital insights, in the many Martin Beck TV movies made from 1997 into the 2020s.<ref name="auto"/> He was also often in director Lars Molin's productions. In December 1993, Hirdwall played the leading role in the Swedish TV company SVT's annual children's Christmas "Advent calendar" – Tomtemaskinen (The mechanical Santa), one of the Pettson and Findus stories by Sven Nordqvist – with one 15-minute part shown each day until Christmas Eve. Hirdwall played the character of Pettson.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/pettson-och-findus-fejar-for-jul-ingvar-hirdwall-och-ika-nord-lever-lantliv-i-arets-julkalender-i-tv/|title=Pettson och Findus fejar för jul. Ingvar Hirdwall och Ika Nord lever lantliv i årets julkalender i TV|date=16 April 1993|author=Dagens Nyheter|accessdate=7 April 2023|archive-date=8 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408130001/https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/pettson-och-findus-fejar-for-jul-ingvar-hirdwall-och-ika-nord-lever-lantliv-i-arets-julkalender-i-tv/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Hirdwall received the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Actor at the 17th Guldbagge Awards for ''Barnens ö'' (''Children's Island'')<ref name=sfi /> and the Thaliapriset prize in 1993.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmsoundsweden.se/backspegel/barnens_o.html|title=Inspelningen av Barnens ö|work=filmsoundsweden.se|accessdate=7 April 2023|archive-date=1 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001123339/https://www.filmsoundsweden.se/backspegel/barnens_o.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
His last film role was "The Neighbour" in the film "Beck – Deadlock", which was released to the TV4 streaming service C More on 22 July 2023.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/2Bqvb4|title=Beck 48 – då har "Quid pro quo" premiär|date=10 February 2023|newspaper=Aftonbladet|accessdate=10 April 2023}}</ref>
==Family and death== Hirdwall was married to the actress Marika Lindström. They had two children, director Jacob Hirdwall and actress Agnes Hirdwall.<ref>{{Cite work|url=https://www.expressen.se/amelia/vad-jag-an-gor-far-jag-aldrig-bli-som-mamma/|title=Marika Lindström: "Jag vill inte bli som min mamma"|magazine=Amelia|accessdate=7 April 2023|archive-date=18 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318190206/https://www.expressen.se/amelia/vad-jag-an-gor-far-jag-aldrig-bli-som-mamma/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Hirdwall died on 6 April 2023, from an act of suicide, at age 88.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/skadespelaren-ingvar-hirdwall-dod-blev-88-ar|title=Skådespelaren Ingvar Hirdwall död – blev 88 år|date=7 April 2023|publisher=SVT Nyheter|accessdate=7 April 2023|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407205953/https://www.svt.se/kultur/skadespelaren-ingvar-hirdwall-dod-blev-88-ar|url-status=live}}</ref><ref> https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/jQQJBw/ingvar-hirdwall-begick-sjalvmord-blev-88-ar</ref>
==Selected filmography== ''Source'':<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=66729|title=Ingvar Hirdwall – SFdb|date=5 December 1934 |accessdate=7 April 2023|archive-date=2 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002133601/https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=66729|url-status=live}}</ref> {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Min kära är en ros'' (1963) – Pajen * ''Raven's End'' (1963) – Sixten * ''För vänskaps skull'' (1965) – Jens Mattsson * ''The Man on the Roof'' (1976) – Åke Eriksson * ''Hedebyborna'' (1978, TV Series) – Skomakar-Ludde * ''Nattvandraren'' (1980, TV Movie) * ''Children's Island'' (1980) – Stig Utler * ''Jackpot'' (1980) * ''Babels hus'' (1981, TV Mini-Series) – Bernt Svensson * ''Som enda närvarande'' (1981, TV Short) – Kevin * ''Drottning Kristina'' (1981, TV Mini-Series) – Axel Oxenstierna * ''Berget på månens baksida'' (1983) – Gustaf Edgren * ''Midvinterduell'' (1983, TV Movie) – Egon * ''The Man from Majorca'' (1984) – Fors * ''August Strindberg: ett liv'' (1985, TV Mini-Series) – Läraren / Murveln * ''Fläskfarmen'' (1986, TV Movie) – Monty * ''Kunglig toilette'' (1986, TV Movie) – Restaurateur * ''Miraklet i Valby'' (1989) – Petra's Father * ''1939)'' (1989) – Annika's Father * ''Tre kärlekar'' (1989–1991, TV Series) – Egon Nilsson * ''Kejsarn av Portugallien'' (1992–1993, TV Mini-Series) – Jan * ''Tomtemaskinen'' (1993, TV Series) – Pettson * ''Pensionat Oskar'' (1995) – Strange Man * ''Potatishandlaren'' (1996, TV Movie) – Johansson * ''Juloratoriet'' (1996) – Edman * ''Torntuppen'' (1996, TV Mini-Series) – Johan From * ''En kvinnas huvud'' (1997) – Düber * ''Emma åklagare'' (1997, TV Series) – Ivan Josefsson * ''Beck'' (1997–2020, TV Series) – Grannen * ''Den tatuerade änkan'' (1998, TV Movie) – Egon Andersson * ''Ivar Kreuger'' (1999, TV Mini-Series) – Statsminister Ekman * ''Miffo'' (2003) – Karl Henrik * ''Mamma pappa barn'' (2003) – Roland * ''Om jag vänder mig om'' (2003) – Knut * ''Mouth to Mouth'' (2005) – Mats pappa John * ''Möbelhandlarens dotter'' (2006, TV Mini-Series) – Paul Martinsson d ä * ''Offside'' (2006) – Boston * ''Den enskilde medborgaren'' (2006) – Gunnar Bergström * ''Stormen'' (2009, TV Mini-Series) – Bernt * ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2009) – Dirch Frode * ''Miraklet i Viskan'' (2015) – Halvar {{div col end}}
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0386335|name=Ingvar Hirdwall}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hirdwall, Ingvar}} Category:1934 births Category:2023 deaths Category:Swedish male stage actors Category:Swedish male film actors Category:Litteris et Artibus recipients Category:Male actors from Stockholm Category:Best Actor Guldbagge Award winners Category:Best Supporting Actor Guldbagge Award winners