FrameThrower · Actors · Gunnel Lindblom
Gunnel Lindblom
5 films · 298 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1957–1973
Born 18 December 1931 · Gothenburg, Sweden · died 24 January 2021
Gunnel Lindblom, was a Swedish film actress and director. As an actor she was particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, though in 1965 she performed the lead role in Miss Julie for BBC Television. She also played the key-role of The Mummy in Bergman's staging of Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata in 1998-2000, a performance that earned her much critical acclaim.
Married to senior lecturer Sture Helander (who was Ingmar Bergman's personal physician), she was sometimes credited as Gunnel Lindblom Helander, or Gunnel Helander.
She appeared on stage as Tintomara's mother in Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's play Drottningens juvelsmycke (English: The Queen's Tiara), staged at Dramaten for…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 298 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1957–1973
- Swedish Academy's Theatre Award2002
- Litteris et Artibus1988
- Eugene O'Neill Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 298 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gunnel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day — the look of the work Gunnel takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
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