AKA: Knut Bjornstrand, Knut Gunner Johansson
Nationality: Swedish
Birthdate: 11/13/1909
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Death Date: 05/24/1986
Understated lead and character player in films by virtually every major postwar Swedish director, particularly Ingmar Bergman. Bjornstrand appeared in more than 15 Bergman films between "It Rains On Our Love" (1946) and "Fanny and Alexander" (1982); the collaboration peaked in the mid-1950s with Bjornstrand playing elder gentlemen opposite various younger women in "Secrets of Woman" (1952), "Dreams" and "Smiles of a Summer Night" (both 1955). He was a classmate of Ingrid Bergman at Stockholm's famed Royal Dramatic Theater School.
Anders Vergerus--Counselor of Medicine
1959
Fredrik Egerman--Lawyer
1955
Mr Sjuberg--Theater Director
Worked as film extra, then mostly in theater until the late 1930s
1931
Film acting debut in "Pour mon coeur et ses millions" (France)
1946
First appearance in an Ingmar Bergman film, "Det regnar pa var stangd/It Rains On Our Love"; subsequently appeared in more than 15 Bergman films through "Fanny and Alexander" (1982)
