Stig Olin

A distinguished actor, director and composer in Sweden; Stig Olin made his success in many areas of the Swedish entertainment business in the 1940s and 50s. As an actor, he claimed success when he played boyish characters and naive students on film. He was the actor who eventually took the claim of playing Ingmar Bergman's alter-ego in many of his early films, including; Torment (1944) (Bergman's script debut), Crisis (1946), Woman Without a Face (1947) (Bergman wrote the script), Port of Call (1948), Prison (1949), To Joy (1950) and Summer Interlude (1951). Stig Olin then went on to directing some films himself in the 1950s: he not only wrote film scripts but also directed these films himself, as well. As a director, his best film is probably his on-screen adaption of children-novelist Astrid Lindgren's Rasmus, Pontus och Toker (1956); a wonderful classic children's film (very beloved in Sweden) to which Olin also composed the music score and also acted the substantial supporting p... [Details Intro]