Viveca Lindfors

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Viveca Lindfors (actually: Elsa Viveca Torstendotter Lindfors ; * December 29, 1920 in Uppsala , Uppsala län , Sweden ; † October 25, 1995 there ) was an American film and theater actress as well as a film director and screenwriter of Swedish origin.

biography

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Viveca Lindfors is one of Sweden's most famous actresses alongside Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman , although she never achieved the same star status. She learned her trade at the Royal Theater in Stockholm and made her debut in 1940, at the age of 20, in the Swedish comedy film Snurriga familjen .

In the next five and a half years Lindfors appeared in Sweden in fifteen feature films and in numerous plays on the theater stage. In 1945 the dark-haired actress moved to Hollywood , where they signed Warner Brothers . In 1948, Lindfors' US film debut was in the war drama To The Victor . From 1950 the actress was also on stage on Broadway , as the lead actress in Anastasia . In 1951, Lindfors was granted US citizenship. With her husband George Tabori she rehearsed a. a. the Actors Studio by Lee Strasberg , made performances like Strindberg's "Miss Julie" and founded in 1966 with his independent theater group "The Strolling Players".

However, her success as a film actress quickly fell short of expectations. Her best-known film at that time was the 1961 film adaptation of the Bible, King of Kings , in which she played Claudia Procula . She has also appeared in television series, including Bonanza and The Denver Clan . At the 1962 Berlinale she won a Silver Bear for her role in the independent film No Exit, together with her partner Rita Gam .

Lindfors only became of interest to producers with increasing age. In 1978 she was able to win Robert Altman for a wedding , and Roland Emmerich in 1994 for Stargate .

In 1987 she stood behind the camera for the first and only time. Unfinished Business was the 67-minute feature film that she not only directed and wrote the script, but also starred in a supporting role.

Viveca Lindfors was back on stage in Sweden in the summer of 1995. She died in October of the same year at the age of 74 in her hometown of Uppsala of complications from her rheumatic disease .

family

She was married four times. In 1941 she married the German Harry Hasso, the divorce took place in 1942. Between 1944 and 1948 she was married to the Swede Folke Rogard . With him she had her second child, Lena Tabori , who is now an actress and producer. With her third husband, the American Don Siegel , with whom Lindfors was married between 1948 and 1953, Lindfors had their third child, Kristoffer Tabori , who is now a successful director and actor. The half-siblings Lena and Kristoffer took on their mother's family name after their mother's marriage to the writer and screenwriter George Tabori in 1954 . The marriage to Tabori also became Viveca Lindfors' longest marriage. It came to an end with Tabori's move to Germany in 1971, and the divorce took place the following year.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Viveca Lindfors: Viveca… Viveka. An Actress ... A Woman. Everest House Publishers, New York 1981.
  • Frank Flechtmann (article): Alpha Omega, SAEM and Heinrich Hansjakob, post from Haslach to Himmler and Kennedy; The director Harry Hasso as an inventor in times of war and peace. in: The Ortenau, publications of the Historical Association for Central Baden. 81st annual volume, Offenburg 2001, pp. 545-598, (her son Jan, born in 1943, is also mentioned).

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personal data
SURNAME Lindfors, Viveca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindfors, Elsa Viveca Torstendotter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actress as well as film director and screenwriter of Swedish origin
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala , Uppsala County , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1995
Place of death Uppsala , Uppsala län