Stig Ossian Ericson
Actor
Biography
Stig Ossian Ericson (7 September 1923 - 30 July 2012) was a Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter.
Ericson was born in 1923 in Härnösand, but grew up in Nyköping. Graduating at the University of Uppsala where he had been involved in various theatrical performances at the Södermanlands-Nerikes nation, he began his professional career as a mathematics teacher. He changed into the theater track in the early 1960s when he participated in the Snudd revue at the Casino Theatre in Stockholm. He later worked with Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, Bo Widerberg and Beppe Wolgers.
He is probably best known as Sigurd in the Swedish block buster Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?, lillebror's father in Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson på taket, and in the 1990s as Father Fouras in Fångarna på fortet, the Swedish version of French game show Fort Boyard.
Ericson died in 2012, at the age of 88, in Nacka east of Stockholm.
As Director
Filmography
Port of Call
as Man Reading the Court's Decision (voice) (uncredited) 1948
Who Pulled the Plug?
as Sigurd 1981
Karlsson on the Roof
as Father 1974
The Man Who Quit Smoking
as Hypnotist 1972
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
as Factory Worker 1975
The Butt
as taxi driver 1974
The Women on the Roof
as Vicar 1989
One-Week Bachelors
as The Illusionist 1982
Have a Wonderful Life
as Newspaper editor 1992
To Be a Millionaire
as Mushroom picker 1980
Private Bom
as Clerk (uncredited) 1948
Father to Be
as Director 1979
Tabu
as Björn, radioproducent 1977
Games of Love and Loneliness
as Rissler 1977
The Moon God
1988
En enkel melodi
as Margareta's father 1974
A Summer of Love
as Wiren 1979