--- name: "Eddie Axberg" canonical: "https://film.one/person/eddie-axberg" roles: ["Sound mixer"] born: "9 July 1947" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 0 updated: "2026-09-20T05:43:45.538536+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Eddie Axberg Sound mixer. Born 9 July 1947 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. ## Details - **Work:** Sound mixer - **Born:** 9 July 1947, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Axberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1282679, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043453/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58304 ## Fi1m on Eddie Axberg > A natural, untrained actor who did his best work young and for one director, Eddie Axberg gave Jan Troell's films a restless, daydreaming boy to set against their patient men. He then went and worked the sound desk, which tells you something. In *The Emigrants* (1971), Robert is the one who leaves for the youngest reasons. His brother Karl Oskar goes because his field is mostly rock and his children are hungry; Robert goes because the farmer he works for hits him. Eddie Axberg plays him with a boy's daydreaming and a boy's bad luck, and he does it without appearing to act at all. Beside Max von Sydow, who has decided and will not discuss it again, Robert is all undecided, and the film needs him for that. He had been at it since childhood, in radio and television from 1959, and had an uncredited part in Ingmar Bergman's *Winter Light* (1963). The role that made him was Olof Persson, the lead in Jan Troell's first feature, *Here's Your Life* (1966), a coming-of-age film with a working boy at its centre. Troell kept him on: Robert Nilsson in *The Emigrants* and again in *The New Land* (1972), the second half of the story taken from Vilhelm Moberg's novels. Three films with one director is most of the career anyone remembers, and Axberg has never seemed to mind. What Troell got from him was a reserve with warmth underneath it, and a way of being on screen that does not look trained, because it was not. He was cast as young, working-class, restless men in period clothes, and he was good at them because he did not seem to be pretending. We will admit that in *The Emigrants* we were more anxious for Robert than for anyone else on the ship, and it was Axberg who did it, hopeful and half elsewhere in a film full of people who have stopped hoping and started enduring. The limit is plain: it is one kind of part, played young, for one director, and we have not seen him attempt anything else. The odd thing is what he did afterwards, which was mostly not act. He has worked as a sound engineer since the 1960s, taking small parts now and then into the 2010s, and he has said that "he has never regarded himself as an actor but rather as a film technician". That is a strange thing for a man who led a feature before he was twenty to say, and it is also the best account we have of the performances: he stood in front of the camera like someone who did not think it was his job to perform. Start with *The Emigrants*, for the daydreamer. Then, if you can find it, *Here's Your Life*, where Troell first saw what he had. ## Biography Eddie Axberg is a Swedish actor and sound engineer. Born on 9 July 1947 in Stockholm, he began appearing in films and television in the early 1960s. He is known for his performances as Olof in *Här har du ditt liv* (1966) and as Robert Nilsson in Jan Troell's *The Emigrants* (1971) and *The New Land* (1972). For the latter roles he received the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1972. He has also worked extensively as a sound technician and mixer on numerous Swedish productions. *Sources: imdb.com, sv.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, svenskfilmdatabas.se.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Emigrants* (1971), Fi1m 85, as Robert — [page](https://film.one/film/the-emigrants.md) ## Complete filmography (98) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Svenska tv-historier* (2015), series, as Eddie Axberg - *Dangerous Dreams* (2013), Sound Editor - *King Lily of the Valley* (2013), Sound - *Death of a Loved One* (2013), Sound - *The Last Sentence* (2012), as Handyman - *Sound of Noise* (2010), Sound Recordist - *TV-feber* (2010), Sound Recordist - *Johan Falk: Leo Gaut* (2009), Boom Operator - *Johan Falk: National Target* (2009), Boom Operator - *Johan Falk: Brothers in Arms* (2009), Sound - *Everlasting Moments* (2008), as Worker #3 · Sound - *Angel* (2008), Sound Recordist - *Se upp för dårarna* (2007), Sound - *Offside* (2006), Sound - *Heartbreak Hotel* (2006), Sound - *All it Takes is a Miracle* (2006), as Georg - *Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang* (2005), as Polismannen - *The Queen of Sheba's Pearls* (2004), Sound - *Graveyard Island* (2004), Sound Editor - *Three Suns* (2004), Dialogue Editor - *Slim Susie* (2003), Sound Editor - *Paradiset* (2003), Sound - *The Reunion* (2002), Foley Artist - *Deadline* (2001), Sound Effects Editor - *Filmstaden* (2001), Actor - *The Jönsson Gang at High Stakes* (2000), Sound - *Wings of Glass* (2000), as Sound - *A Summer Tale* (2000), Sound - *A Witch in the Family* (2000), Sound - *Deadly Drift* (1999), Sound - *Jakten på en mördare* (1999), series, as Harry - *Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness* (1998), Sound Designer - *The Glass-Blower's Children* (1998), Sound - *Play Off* (1997), as Bailiff - *Such Is Life* (1996), Sound - *Christmas Oratorio* (1996), Actor - *Dad Is Tired Again* (1996), Sound - *One in a Million* (1995), Sound - *House of Angels: The Second Summer* (1994), Sound - *Händerna* (1994), as Grahn - *Pillertrillaren* (1994), Sound - *The Last Dance* (1993), Sound - *Lotta Leaves Home* (1993), Sound Engineer - *Kvällspressen* (1992), series, Actor - *House of Angels* (1992), Sound - *Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem* (1991), Sound Editor - *Joker* (1991), Sound - *Önskas* (1991), Sound Recordist - *Macken - Roy's & Roger's Bilservice* (1990), Sound Effects - *Nils Karlsson Pyssling* (1990), Sound Engineer - *BlackJack* (1990), as Man Who Makes a Bet (uncredited) · Sound - *1939* (1989), Sound - *Highest Jump* (1989), Sound Recordist - *The Twelve Months of the Summer* (1988), as Kalle Maraton - *Framed* (1988), Sound - *The Ninth Company* (1987), Sound - *The Children of Noisy Village* (1986), as Fotografen (uncredited) - *Peter-No-Tail in Americat* (1985), as Rat - *False as Water* (1985), Electrician - *P & B* (1983), as Petrol station owner · Sound - *Mot härliga tider* (1983), as Svempa - *Limpan* (1983), Sound - *Klippet* (1982), as Fimpen - *Profeten i Pajala* (1982), as Aslak - *Peter-No-Tail* (1981), as Den Tjocka Råttan - *Rasmus and the Vagabond* (1981), as Assistant in the shop - *The Rooster* (1981), Sound - *SOPOR* (1981), Actor - *Madicken of June Hill* (1980), Sound Engineer - *To Be a Millionaire* (1980), as Jens Fors - *You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken* (1979), Sound Engineer - *The Brothers Lionheart* (1977), Sound - *The American Dream* (1976), as Karl-Erik - *City of My Dreams* (1976), as Henning Nilsson - *Emil of Lönneberga* (1975), series, Sound - *A Guy and a Gal* (1975), Actor - *Skärseld* (1975), Sound Assistant - *The Emigrants* (1974), series, as Robert · Sound, Sound Mixer - *En enkel melodi* (1974), as Hugo, Felix' brother - *Judit och Herman* (1974), Actor - *New Mischief by Emil* (1972), Sound Engineer - *The New Land* (1972), as Robert · Sound, Sound Mixer - *Stora skälvan* (1972), series, as Östen - *The Emigrants* (1971), as Robert · Sound Mixer, Sound — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-emigrants.md) - *Dog Days* (1970), as Jan - *Porträtt av en stad* (1969), as Unemplyed youngster - *Life on Seacrow Island* (1968), as Kalle · Sound - *Modiga mindre män* (1968), Actor - *Here Is Your Life* (1966), as Olof Persson - *Come on Roland!* (1966), as Sten Hansson - *The Serpent* (1966), as Delivery boy - *Tjorven and Skrallan* (1965), Sound - *Life on Seacrow Island* (1964), series, Sound Assistant - *Winter Light* (1963), as Johan Strand (uncredited) - *Ticket to Paradise* (1962), as Piccolon - *The Brig Three Lilies* (1961), as Mickel Mickelsson - *Julkalendern* (1960), series, as Rimtroll - *Titteliture* (1960), series, as Rimtroll ## Gallery - ![Eddie Axberg](https://film.one/media/person/1244780/gallery-a3629da9aaef.jpg) Eddie Axberg — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Eddie_Axberg%2C_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Foto på Eddie Axberg taget i samband med filmen Här har du ditt liv (1966) infört i FIB aktuellt 1967:4.](https://film.one/media/person/1244780/gallery-76b04ac7a8f4.jpg) Foto på Eddie Axberg taget i samband med filmen Här har du ditt liv (1966) infört i FIB aktuellt 1967:4. — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Eddie-Axberg-in-a-scene-from-the-film-Here-Is-Your-Life-Swedis-352109339148.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - 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