Samuel Froeler

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Samuel Fröler (born March 24, 1957 in Riddaretorp , Kalmar län ; actually Per Samuel Fröler ) is a Swedish actor and singer. Since the late 1980s he has worked on more than 20 film and television productions. Fame earned him the male lead in the award-winning film The Best Intentions (1992).

Life

Samuel Fröler was born as Per Samuel Fröler , son of a pastor and an elementary school teacher. He grew up as the youngest of five siblings. A brother was born with Down syndrome . The pastor's family from the Kalmar region first lived in the rectory of Fröler's birthplace, Riddaretorp near Madesjö. At the age of ten, Fröler and his family moved to the parish of Reftele , Gislaved . The family spent the summers on Öland .

After attending school, Fröler worked at the clinic for adolescent psychiatry in Västerås from 1978 to 1982 . After initially flirting with the profession of psychologist, he switched to acting and studied at the Gothenburg Theater School from 1982 to 1985 . After completing his training, he went to the Stockholm City Theater .

From the end of the 1980s, Fröler was offered offers on Swedish television. He gained fame through his first television role in Lars Molins Tre kärlekar (1989 and 1991). In the two-season series set in Sweden at the end of World War II , Fröler starred in the leading role of Gösta Nilsson, an officer in the Swedish Air Force . Then the well-known filmmaker Ingmar Bergman became aware of the actor, who at the time was planning a project about the life of his parents together with the Danish director Bille August . In the historical drama The Best Intentions , which first appeared in 1991 in Sweden as a multi-part television program, Fröler took on the role of Bergman's father, a pastor from a poor background who was inclined to self-mortifying asceticism , tormented soul and self-doubt about the spontaneous lust for life of his wife (portrayed by Pernilla August ) . The cut film version premiered at the 1992 Cannes International Film Festival , where The Best Intentions with the Palme d'Or won the main prize of the festival and Fröler became known to an international audience as a result. The role of Henrik Bergman earned him critical acclaim and in 1993 he received a nomination for the most important Swedish film award Guldbagge for Best Actor .

After The Best Intentions , Fröler did not succeed in building on this success, but continued to appear regularly in Swedish film and television. In 1996 he took over the role of Henrik Bergman for Liv Ullmann's TV film Enskila samtal based on a script by Ingmar Bergman, while Richard Hobert's psychological thriller Das Auge brought him back together with his fellow actress Lena Endre . A wide Swedish television audience remembered Fröler between 1997 and 2000 through the popular series Skärgårdsdoktorn . In the production of Sveriges Television he took on the leading role of the returning doctor Johan Steen, who moves with his adolescent daughter to the remote archipelago of Stockholm to take over a doctor's practice there.

Samuel Fröler has five children from various backgrounds and lives alternately in Stockholm and on Öland. In the past he was involved as an ambassador for the football club Kalmar FF from his home region. Parallel to his work as an actor, Fröler published his own music album as a singer in 2000, for which artists known to him such as CajsaStina Åkerström , Kajsa Grytt , Plura Jonsson , Peter LeMarc , Ted Ström , Stefan Sundström , Uno Svenningsson wrote songs. The Swedish-language album sold 17,000 copies and made it into the Swedish charts.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1989–1991: Tre kärlekar (TV series)
  • 1991: Den goda viljan (TV multi-part)
  • 1992: Isabell's death track ( blueprint , television multipart )
  • 1992: The best of intentions ( Den goda viljan )
  • 1994: Fallet Paragon (TV multi-part)
  • 1995: Sommaren
  • 1996: Enskilda samtal (TV movie)
  • 1996: Gåten Knut Hamsun
  • 1997: Närkontakt (short film)
  • 1997: Et hjørne af paradis
  • 1997–2000: Skärgårdsdoktorn (TV series)
  • 1998: The Eye ( Ögat )
  • 1999: Svar med foto
  • 2000: Hakan Nesser: The coarse-meshed network ( Det grovmaskiga nätet , TV film)
  • 2001: Executive Protection - The bomb is ticking ( Livvakterna )
  • 2003: Kim and the Wolves ( Ulvesommer )
  • 2003: Octane - Cruel Suspicion ( Octane )
  • 2003: Para§raf 9 (TV series)
  • 2004–2007: Seks som oss (TV series)
  • 2005: Ved kongens bord (television multipart)
  • 2005: Lovisa och Carl Michael (TV movie)
  • 2006: Exit
  • 2006: Världarnas bok (TV series)
  • 2009: Headhunter
  • 2010: The inner beauty of the universe ( Till det som är vackert )
  • 2010: Pax
  • 2011: The Commissioner and the Sea - Laila (TV series)
  • 2016: Nobel (series)

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Blunda mig till ljus igen
  SE 15th 03/08/2001 (4 weeks)
  • 2000: Blunda mig till ljus igen

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography of Samuel Frölers at sfi.se (Swedish; accessed on October 6, 2012).
  2. ↑ a b c Sommarsamtalet med Samuel Fröler. In: barometers.se. July 14, 2008, archived from the original on May 19, 2009 ; Retrieved October 7, 2012 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Horst Peter Koll: The best of intentions . In: film-dienst 22/1992 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  4. ↑ Chart sources: SE
personal data
SURNAME Fröler, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fröler, Per Samuel (full name); Froler, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Riddaretorp , Kalmar Lan