Stig Ossian Ericson
Known for ActingBorn 1923-09-07 — died 2012-07-30Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden
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.
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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.
Known for
Tabu
1977 · as Björn, radioproducent
The Women on the Roof
1989 · as Vicar
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
1975 · as Factory Worker
Änglaverket
1985 · as Melker
One-Week Bachelors
1982 · as The Illusionist
Min älskade
1979
Father to Be
1979 · as Director
Games of Love and Loneliness
1977 · as Rissler
The Man Who Quit Smoking
1972 · as Hypnotist
Karlsson on the Roof
1974 · as Father
Port of Call
1948 · as Man Reading the Court's Decision (voice) (uncredited)
The American Dream
1976 · as Prison warden
Who Pulled the Plug?
1981 · as Sigurd
Idag Röd
1987
Flight Level 450
1980 · as Appelgren
Saddled With a Girl
1982 · as Professor Bagge
To Be a Millionaire
1980 · as Mushroom picker
Kristoffers hus
1979 · as Stenkil