Lill-Babs

Acting

Lill-Babs

Born March 9, 1938 · Järvsö, Sweden

Died April 3, 2018 · aged 80

Barbro "Lill-Babs" Svensson was a Swedish singer, actress and television presenter. From the early 1950s until her death in 2018, she was one of Sweden's best known and popular singers.

Known For

A Zero Too MuchA Zero Too Much · 1962
A Zero Too Much
★ 6.61962
MovieComedy
A newspaper misprints Pontus Blom's (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) yearly income as being much more than it is; this leads to various comical situations of exceeding hilarity.
Bert: The Last VirginBert: The Last Virgin · 1995
Bert: The Last Virgin
★ 5.01995
MovieFamilyComedy
The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
Isola BellaIsola Bella · 1961
Isola Bella
★ 6.91961
MovieComedyMusic
Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and therefore slips in her father's villa in the role of a maid.
Send Me a CountSend Me a Count · 1959
Send Me a Count
★ 7.51959
MovieComedy
The burglar Karl Kilian Ledig tries to get his somewhat reluctant son Carl Gustaf interested in his "profession". He bring him along one evening to the sculpture Ulla-Carin von Knaake's house to break in and steal from her safe. Complications arise when Ulla-Carin and some of her friends unexpectedly come home and she imagines that Carl Gustaf is a model she has hired from a model agency.
En gång i StockholmEn gång i Stockholm · 1963
En gång i Stockholm
1963
MovieMusicComedy
Two teen idols meet in Stockholm.
The SquareThe Square · 1960
The Square
★ 9.01960
MovieComedyMusic
A series of modernist sketches. A bunch of songs by Olle Adolphson, Owe Thörnqvist, Beppe Wolgers and Lars Forsell are performed in the film. The most famous, Mitt egen land, is sung by Monica Nielsen. Three years before it was first heard on record, then by the composer himself, Olle Adolphson.
The Man Who Could Not LaughThe Man Who Could Not Laugh · 1968
The Man Who Could Not Laugh
★ 5.51968
MovieComedy
A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist.
Svenska FloydSvenska Floyd · 1961
Svenska Floyd
★ 5.71961
MovieComedy
The world-famous Swedish boxer Flosse travels to Italy to fight for the world boxing title. In Rome he meets the nightclub singer Lollo.

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På spåretPå spåret · 1987
På spåret
★ 6.71987
SeriesReality
På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

Gästartist

Ta sjansenTa sjansen · 1983
Ta sjansen
1983
SeriesRealityComedy
«Ta sjansen» was a popular Norwegian TV show broadcast on NRK from 1983 to 2002. It was a light-hearted, annual summer event filmed outdoors at the Homenkollen ski jump in Oslo. The show featured contestants competing in two main types of humorous and often chaotic challenges: Homemade boats racing down a steep ramp into the water, and creative bicycles racing on floating docks. Participants often wore silly costumes and built wildly imaginative contraptions, making the spectacle part game show, part variety show, and part slapstick comedy. «Ta sjansen» was known for its fun, festive atmosphere, and it became a beloved summer tradition in Norway. Though not officially competitive, winners were awarded prizes, and the emphasis was always on entertainment rather than serious sportsmanship.