Per Ragnar, Per-Erik Ragnar (born 29 May 1941), is a Swedish actor,
director and author.Ragnar was born in Kalmar, Sweden and is the son
of district manager Hans Ragnar and the postal clerk Karin, née
Pettersson. Ragnar trained at Dramatens elevskola (The Royal Dramatic
Theatre's acting school) in 1962-65. The following year he got a job
as director's assistant to Ingmar Bergman (on his stage production of
Peter Weiss' play The Investigation), where Ragnar states he learned a
lot on the art of acting and directing from "the master", just by
watching and listening when Bergman worked with his actors and the
script. In 1968 Per Ragnar had his breakthrough as an actor, earning
much critical acclaim and audience praise for his performances in the
Arnold Wesker "trilogy" staged that year in Sweden: Hönssoppa med
korngryn (Chicken Soup with Barley), Rötter (Roots) and Jag talar om
Jerusalem (I'm talking about Jerusalem). The same year he also made
his film-breakthrough with Korridoren (The Corridor), Jan Haldoff's
social commenting film on hospitals and the health care system in
Sweden, where Ragnar plays a young doctor, new on the job, facing the
dilemmas of prioritizing patients.In the 1970s his collaborating with
TV director Bengt Lagerkvist led to notable performances on TV, first
as Arvid Falk in Lagerkvist's TV adaption of Strindberg's play The Red
Room) (Röda rummet), and in the popular Swedish TV-series Någonstans
i Sverige (~Somewhere In Sweden), a series covering the years in
Sweden during the time of World War II in Europe, where Ragnar played
the character of fänrik Ancker.For a young audience today, in Sweden,
he became unforgettable when playing the religious psycho Sten Frisk
in the popular and long-running 1990s TV series Tre Kronor (1994) on
Swedish channel TV4, a role that followed him for long and for more
than a decade led to him often being typecast as evil characters and
crazy psychos in various roles on film and TV. Even though being cast
in a Swedish vampire film, his character of HÃ¥kan was this time a bit
more complex then just "evil"; in director Tomas Alfredson's popular
success feature Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) in
2008. Previously he had worked with Tomas Alfredson and his
"Killinggänget" group in their film En liten film.. (A Little Film..)
in 1999, where he had a small key part as an absent-minded boss.
director and author.Ragnar was born in Kalmar, Sweden and is the son
of district manager Hans Ragnar and the postal clerk Karin, née
Pettersson. Ragnar trained at Dramatens elevskola (The Royal Dramatic
Theatre's acting school) in 1962-65. The following year he got a job
as director's assistant to Ingmar Bergman (on his stage production of
Peter Weiss' play The Investigation), where Ragnar states he learned a
lot on the art of acting and directing from "the master", just by
watching and listening when Bergman worked with his actors and the
script. In 1968 Per Ragnar had his breakthrough as an actor, earning
much critical acclaim and audience praise for his performances in the
Arnold Wesker "trilogy" staged that year in Sweden: Hönssoppa med
korngryn (Chicken Soup with Barley), Rötter (Roots) and Jag talar om
Jerusalem (I'm talking about Jerusalem). The same year he also made
his film-breakthrough with Korridoren (The Corridor), Jan Haldoff's
social commenting film on hospitals and the health care system in
Sweden, where Ragnar plays a young doctor, new on the job, facing the
dilemmas of prioritizing patients.In the 1970s his collaborating with
TV director Bengt Lagerkvist led to notable performances on TV, first
as Arvid Falk in Lagerkvist's TV adaption of Strindberg's play The Red
Room) (Röda rummet), and in the popular Swedish TV-series Någonstans
i Sverige (~Somewhere In Sweden), a series covering the years in
Sweden during the time of World War II in Europe, where Ragnar played
the character of fänrik Ancker.For a young audience today, in Sweden,
he became unforgettable when playing the religious psycho Sten Frisk
in the popular and long-running 1990s TV series Tre Kronor (1994) on
Swedish channel TV4, a role that followed him for long and for more
than a decade led to him often being typecast as evil characters and
crazy psychos in various roles on film and TV. Even though being cast
in a Swedish vampire film, his character of HÃ¥kan was this time a bit
more complex then just "evil"; in director Tomas Alfredson's popular
success feature Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) in
2008. Previously he had worked with Tomas Alfredson and his
"Killinggänget" group in their film En liten film.. (A Little Film..)
in 1999, where he had a small key part as an absent-minded boss.
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