Tomas Alfredson

Tomas Alfredson

Directing
1965-04-01
Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden

Biography

Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and the 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge Award for Best Direction twice: in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown and in 2008 for Let the Right One In. He is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tomas Alfredson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For & Full Filmography23 Titles

#1På spåret

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes as Tävlande

6.7 / 10
Family

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

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#2Skavlan

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes as Self - Guest

5.0 / 10
Talk

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."

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#3Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
TalkComedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#4The Guldbagge Awards

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Self

5.5 / 10
Reality

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

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#5Bert

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as Kenthy Kastrup

6.0 / 10
FamilyComedy

The first appearance on screen for Bert Ljung, a normal teenager who's diary Swedes have been able to follow in well over ten books now. As in the books, he fights spots, looks for girls, runs his moped, plays with his weird friends Ake and Erik, and a lot of other stuff teenagers are supposed to do.

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#6The Simple-Minded Murderer

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Axel

7.0 / 10
Drama

The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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#7Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m as Self

7.3 / 10
Documentary

Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.

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#8Four Shades of Brown

Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
DramaComedy

Drama comedy that is invented, written down and performed by the Killing Gang: Tomas Alfredson, Jonas Inde, Martin Luuk, Henrik Schyffert, Robert Gustafsson, Andres Lokko and Johan Rheborg.

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#9Trespassing Bergman

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m as Self

6.6 / 10
DocumentaryHistory

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)

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#10The Adventures of Picasso

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Paper Boy (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
Comedy

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.

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#11Bergman's Video

Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes as Self - Filmmaker

8.8 / 10
Documentary

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (Released in 2013, edited and abridged, as Trespassing Bergman.)

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#12Berättelsen om Killinggänget

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes as Self

8.5 / 10
Documentary

The comedy group Killinggänget made a big splash in the 90s with, among other things, “Nilecity” and “I manegen med Glenn Killing”. In “Berättelsen om Killinggänget” they themselves tell about their life in the 30-year-old comedy group

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#13The Apple War

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Count

6.0 / 10
ComedyFantasy

A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.

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#14Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Self

5.0 / 10
Documentary

The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.

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#15Bert: The Last Virgin

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m as Aage Kastrup

5.0 / 10
FamilyComedyRomance

The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.

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#16P & B

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Jonas

6.2 / 10
ComedyDrama

Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.

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#17Scenes in the Night

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m as Doctor

5.7 / 10
Drama

Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.

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#18SOPOR

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Comedy

One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.

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#19Marks

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m as Kommisarie Lundin

8.8 / 10
Comedy

Director Jakob is in the middle of recording when he becomes obsessed with the authenticity of a cosmetic hickey. Despite repeating his mantra of assuming responsibility, he soon oversteps all boundaries and ends up in a pinch with his own self-image.

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#20Jag är Klimpen, motherfucker!

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
Documentary

'Klimpen' was the beloved antagonist of the classic 90s adolescent comedy series "Bert". Two decades later, Martin - who played Klimpen - is newly divorced, depressed, alcoholic and homeless. This documentary follows Martin over three years as he finds new love, and tries to get his life back on track.

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#21Alfons bit för bit - En film om Gunilla Bergström

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
DocumentaryTV Movie

A documentary made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alfons Åberg, the main character in a children's book series by Swedish author and illustrator Gunilla Bergström. We'll get to see how the characters and illustrations was made.

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#22Spermaharen

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m as Various

4.7 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

A collection of four odd short films.

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#23I manegen med Glenn Killing

Movie - 2027, 2h 15m as Various

8.8 / 10
Comedy

Welcome and less welcome reunions, cross-pollination, and forward momentum under the leadership of the characters Glenn Killing and Percy Nilegaard. Will be a stage show that later will be realsed on streaming.

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