Sten Ivar Ljunggren (born October 16, 1938) is a Swedish character actor. He played Henrik in the long-running Swedish drama TV series Svenska hjärtan, which aired between 1987 and 1998. Other notable roles includes criminal inspector Lennart Thorin in the TV mini-series based on the Lasermannen events, the retired doctor Axel Holtman in Skärgårdsdoktorn, the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Swedish dub of Up, the voice of Sykes in the Swedish cinema dub of Oliver & Company, and the evil principal in Kenny Starfighter. He played the lead role as Birger in Lukas Moodysson's last short film Talk. The same character, with some modifications, was used again in Moodysson's Together. Ljunggren reprised the role.

Filmography

• 2026Drama Kings — Bernt
• 2025Kronprinsen och tyrannens återkomst — Läromästaren
• 2025Off Track 2
• 2023Together 99 — Birger
• 2022Arne Meets Death — Nyström
• 2022Burn All My Letters — Sven Stolpe (1988)
• 2022Göta Canal 4: Win or Disappear — Advokaten
• 2021Lysande Jönssonligan - 40 år — Fritz Mühlweiser (archive footage)
• Bäckström — Sven-Erik Johnson
• Mirakel — Narrator (voice)
• 2019Awaiting Death — The father
• 2018Border — Tina's Father
• 20172060 — Bläckan
• 2016While We Live — Olof
• 2015Champion
• 2015For Better and Worse — Sven
• 2015Nylon — Alfred
• Svenska tv-historier — Sten Ljunggren
• The Fourth Man — Majoren
• Barna Hedenhös uppfinner julen — Statsminister Erland
• 2013Nobody Owns Me — Grandfather
• 2013The Fjällbacka Murders: Friends for Life
• 2013Us — Mäklaren
• 2013Wallander: The Troubled Man — Håkan von Enke
• 2012Fuck Up — Rebeccas far
• 2011Somewhere Else — Lennart
• 2011The Best View — Tord
• 2010Four More Years — Josef
• Solsidan — Claes Prytz
• Walk the Talk — Claes
• 2009Almost Elvis — Guardian angel
• 2009Playing with Fire
• 2009The Temptation of St. Tony — Herr Meister
• Innocently Convicted
• Der Kommissar und das Meer — Gunnar Winarve
• 2007Gone with the Woman — Oberst Kalle
• Gynecologist in Askim — Sture
• 2006Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Suddenly — Sven
• 2006Susanne Goes Single
• 2005Pistvakt — Stor-Erik Marklund
• 2005The Chosen — Göransson
• The Laser Man — Lennart Thorin
• Wallander — Håkan von Enke
• 2004Popular Music — Grandfather
• 2004Young Jönsson Gang at Summer Camp — Janitor
• 2003Headway — chefen
• Järnvägshotellet — Filip Hammarén
• Ramona — Tore Graan
• 2002K-G for Better or for Worse — Veterinary
• 2000Together — Birger
• 1999Deadly Drift — Eriksson
• 1999Raymond - sju resor värre — Olof, Raymond's Father
• 1999The Health Journey — Expedit
• 1998Beck 06 - The Monster — Anita pappa
• C/o Segemyhr — Svärfar
• 1998Teratologens återkomst — Reader
• Kenny Starfighter — Rektorn
• Skärgårdsdoktorn — Axel Holtman
• 1997Svensson, Svensson - The Movie — Arthur
• 1997Talk — Birger
• 1997The Disappearance of Finbar — Finn Bar barman
• 1997The Girl in the Mist
• 1996A Kind of Hades — Kalle
• 1996Ellinors bröllop — Richard's Dad
• Ett sorts Hades — Kalle
• 1996Harry & Sonja — Walter
• 1996To Steal a Thief — Vicar
• 1995Grænsen
• 1995Som löven i Vallombrosa — Gabriel
• Anna Holt - Den vite riddaren — Rikspolischefen
• 1994Pillertrillaren — Patient
• The Shadow of Freedom — Thomas Gustafsson
• 1994Utmaningen — Tromben
• 1994Zorn — Richard Bergh
• 1993Den gråtande ministern — Statsministern
• 1993Lotta Leaves Home — Farbror Blomgren
• 1993Rosenbaum - Målbrott — Erik Feldt
• Blueprint
• 1992The Best Intentions — Svante
• 1991Sanning och konsekvens
• Sanning och konsekvens — Harry
• 1991Who Framed Harry Lund? — Kent
• 1990Greger Olsson köper en bil — Walter
• Smash — Wallner
• 1989Hassel - Säkra papper — Erwin Axell
• 1989Husbonden — Sailor
• Sparvöga — Livet å Döden
• 1988One Way Ticket — Alex
• Stoft och skugga — Günter
• 1988Swedes at Sea — Didrik
• Svenska Hjärtan — Henrik Wallin
• 1987The Ninth Company — Colonel Hellman
• 1986Fläskfarmen — Egon
• 1986Peas & Whiskers — Shop supervisor
• 1985Dödspolare — Bertil Ugglefors, Writer
• 1984The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever — Fritz Mühlweiser
• 1983Kalabaliken i Bender — Överste Grothusen
• 1982Bänken — Erik
• Skulden — Kommissarie Larsson
• 1982The Painter — Ragge
• Stjärnhuset — Apollo
• Mor gifter sig — Uncle Janne
• 1978Lyftet
• Strandvaskeren — Paulus
• Lära för livet
• 1974Rymmare — Åke
• Julkalendern — Berättaren/Sören 2020
• Stall-Erik and the Snapphans — Överbefälhavare
• Sunday Roast — Holger

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2024Högläsning av Röde Orm — Self