Per Oscar Heinrich Oscarsson (28 January 1927 â€" 31 December 2010)
was a Swedish actor. He is best known for his role in the 1966 film
Hunger, which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best
Actor.Oscarsson was born, along with his twin brother Björn, on 28
January 1927 on Kungsholmen, Stockholm, to parents Einar Oscarsson, an
engineer, and Therèse, née Küppers. The twins had two elder
siblings. Their mother, who was German, died of cancer in
1933.Oscarsson was best known for his role as Pontus, a starving
writer, in the social realism drama Hunger, based on the Knut Hamsun
novel by the same name, a role for which he won the 1966 Bodil, the
Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the 1966 Cannes
Film Festival best actor awards. His most recent film role was as
Holger Palmgren, the character Lisbeth Salander's publicly appointed
guardian, in the 2009 movies The Girl Who Played with Fire and The
Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, based on Stieg Larsson's famous
novels.A fire started in the house of Per Oscarsson and his wife Kia
Östling on the night of 30â€"31 December 2010. On 31 December, a
relative found the house burned to the ground with only the
foundations and chimney remaining. Oscarsson had not been heard from
since the fire. A body was discovered in the ruins of the house on 2
January 2011, and was presumed by police to be either the body of
Oscarsson or that of his wife. A second body was discovered on 3
January, which increased the possibility that both Oscarsson and his
wife had perished in the fire. On 5 January, the deaths of Oscarsson
and his wife were confirmed through dental records by Swedish police.
Oscarsson died four weeks before his 84th birthday.
was a Swedish actor. He is best known for his role in the 1966 film
Hunger, which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best
Actor.Oscarsson was born, along with his twin brother Björn, on 28
January 1927 on Kungsholmen, Stockholm, to parents Einar Oscarsson, an
engineer, and Therèse, née Küppers. The twins had two elder
siblings. Their mother, who was German, died of cancer in
1933.Oscarsson was best known for his role as Pontus, a starving
writer, in the social realism drama Hunger, based on the Knut Hamsun
novel by the same name, a role for which he won the 1966 Bodil, the
Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the 1966 Cannes
Film Festival best actor awards. His most recent film role was as
Holger Palmgren, the character Lisbeth Salander's publicly appointed
guardian, in the 2009 movies The Girl Who Played with Fire and The
Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, based on Stieg Larsson's famous
novels.A fire started in the house of Per Oscarsson and his wife Kia
Östling on the night of 30â€"31 December 2010. On 31 December, a
relative found the house burned to the ground with only the
foundations and chimney remaining. Oscarsson had not been heard from
since the fire. A body was discovered in the ruins of the house on 2
January 2011, and was presumed by police to be either the body of
Oscarsson or that of his wife. A second body was discovered on 3
January, which increased the possibility that both Oscarsson and his
wife had perished in the fire. On 5 January, the deaths of Oscarsson
and his wife were confirmed through dental records by Swedish police.
Oscarsson died four weeks before his 84th birthday.
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