Popular As	Stig Olin
Occupation	Actor
Age	88 years old
Zodiac Sign	Virgo
Born	September 11, 1920 (Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden)
Birthday	September 11
Town/City	Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Nationality	Sweden

🌙 Zodiac

Stig Olin’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Stig Olin was born in the Year of the Monkey. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Monkey thrive on having fun. They’re energetic, upbeat, and good at listening but lack self-control. They like being active and stimulated and enjoy pleasing self before pleasing others. They’re heart-breakers, not good at long-term relationships, morals are weak. Compatible with Rat or Dragon.

A distinguished actor, director and composer in Sweden; Stig Olin made his success in many areas of the Swedish entertainment business in the 1940s and 50s. As an actor, he claimed success when he played boyish characters and naive students on film.

He was the actor who eventually took the claim of playing Ingmar Bergman's alter-ego in many of his early films, including; Torment (1944) (Bergman's script debut), Crisis (1946), Kvinna utan ansikte (1947) (Bergman wrote the script), Port of Call (1948), Prison (1949), Till glädje (1950) and Summer Interlude (1951).

Stig Olin then went on to directing some films himself in the 1950s: he not only wrote film scripts but also directed these films himself, as well. As a director, his best film is probably his on-screen adaption of children-novelist Astrid Lindgren's Rasmus, Pontus och Toker (1956); a wonderful classic children's film (very beloved in Sweden) to which Olin also composed the music score and also acted the substantial supporting part as the suspicious antique dealer "Ernst", that the kids in the film come across.

Stig Olin then suddenly - quite surprisingly, actually - (as he'd never been trained specifically in music) showed his talent as a composer when he came to write many songs (both the music and the lyrics) that today are considered to be classic evergreens/tunes/schlagers in Sweden: "På söndag" (On Sunday), "Karusellvisan" (recorded by himself), "En gång jag seglar i hamn" (recorded by himself), "Jag tror på sommaren" (recorded by son Mats Olin) and "Människors glädje" (recorded, a.

o., by his daughter; actress Lena Olin in the 1970s). Stig Olin sang and performed a lot with his wife at that time; Britta Holmberg, both on stage and on the radio (where the Olin-family had their own radio show for many years in the 1950s and 60s).

On top of this, he also frequently worked at the Swedish Radio with various other shows/programmes and became a very appreciated director for the Swedish Radio Theatre (Radioteatern). In 1970, he became Director of Programmes at Swedish Radio and, from there on, came to work almost exclusively in the radio business in the 1970s and 1980s.

Still, he directed several plays and musicals at various private theatres in Stockholm in the 1950s-1980s (including the original Swedish staging of the Stephen Sondheim musical, "A Little Night Music", based on the Ingmar Bergman comedy, "Smiles of a Summer Night") and he has written numerous theatre sketches for all kinds of revues and made the music arrangements for many musicals throughout his life.

His best on-screen performances in films include: Torment (1944), Kvinna utan ansikte (1947), Till glädje (1950), Summer Interlude (1951), En fästman i taget (1952), Klasskamrater (1952), The Yellow Squadron (1954), Sceningång (1956), Rasmus, Pontus och Toker (1956) and Jim & piraterna Blom (1987).