---
name: "Lenn Hjortzberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lenn-hjortzberg"
fi1m_id: "lenn-hjortzberg"
imdb_id: "nm0387134"
tmdb_id: 994406
wikidata_id: "Q5807863"
roles: ["Assistant director"]
born: "28 September 1919"
died: "2 January 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-26T16:45:23.505457+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."
---

# Lenn Hjortzberg

## Identity

Lenn Hjortzberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lenn-hjortzberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lenn-hjortzberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0387134
- **TMDB ID:** 994406
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5807863
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5807863, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387134/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/994406

Assistant director. Born 28 September 1919 in Karlskrona. Died 2 January 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director
- **Born:** 28 September 1919, Karlskrona
- **Died:** 2 January 1975
- **Active:** 1961–1968
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $0m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5807863, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387134/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/994406

## Biography

Lenn Hjortzberg (1919–1975) was a Swedish actor and assistant director. Born Nils Lennart Hjortsberg in Karlskrona, he began acting in films in the early 1940s and appeared in eight screen roles through 1968.

In the 1960s he worked as an assistant director on several Ingmar Bergman films, including *Through a Glass Darkly* (1961), *Winter Light* (1963), *The Silence* (1963), *Persona* (1966) and *Hour of the Wolf* (1968), in which he also played the uncredited role of Kreisler. He had an earlier career in theatre, appearing at Malmö stadsteater and Dramaten.

*Sources: imdb.com, sv.wikipedia.org, svenskfilmdatabas.se.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Hour of the Wolf* (1968), Fi1m 74, as Kreisler (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/hour-of-the-wolf.md)
- *Persona* (1966), Fi1m 89, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/persona.md)
- *Winter Light* (1963), Fi1m 88, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/winter-light.md)
- *Through a Glass Darkly* (1961), Fi1m 82, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/through-a-glass-darkly.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hour of the Wolf* (1968), as Kreisler (uncredited) · Assistant Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/hour-of-the-wolf.md)
- *Persona* (1966), Assistant Director — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/persona.md)
- *Don Juan* (1965), series, as La Violette
- *Winter Light* (1963), Assistant Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/winter-light.md)
- *Through a Glass Darkly* (1961), Assistant Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/through-a-glass-darkly.md)
- *Svenska Floyd* (1961), Actor
- *The Devil's Eye* (1960), as The Doctor (uncredited) · Assistant Director
- *You Who Are About to Enter* (1945), as Official (uncredited)
- *Trav, hopp och kärlek* (1945), as en herre på Jägersro
- *Löjtnantshjärtan* (1942), as Lieutenant Hasse Blixt

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