Viveca Lindfors

Born: 1920-12-29 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Died: 1995-10-25

Known For: Acting

Biography

Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish-American stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress. She trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros., and began working in Hollywood. She appeared in more than 100 films, including Night Unto Night, No Sad Songs for Me, Dark City, The Halliday Brand, King of Kings, An Affair of the Skin, Creepshow, The Sure Thing, and Stargate. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viveca Lindfors, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

1995

Last Summer in the Hamptons as Helena Mora
Run For Cover as Senator Anderson

1994

Stargate as Catherine
The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
Backstreet Justice as Mrs. Robovit

1993

Zelda
Geoffrey Beene 30
Minns ni? as (archive footage)

1992

Exiled in America as Dr. Helena Lindenhaim

1991

Zandalee as Tatta
Child of Darkness, Child of Light as Ida Walsh
The Linguini Incident as Miracle

1990

Law & Order as Helga Holtz
The Exorcist III as Nurse X
Goin' to Chicago

1989

Rachel River as Harriet White
Misplaced as Zofia

1988

China Beach
Going Undercover as Mrs. Bellinger
The Ann Jillian Story as Ann's Mother

1987

Frankenstein's Aunt as Teta
Freckled Max and the Spooks as Baronka
Unfinished Business as Helena

1986

The Wizard

1985

The Sure Thing as Professor Taub
Secret Weapons as Aunt Rosa Koslov

1984

Glitter as tba
Passions as Lila
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier as Dr. Rice
A Doctor's Story as Mrs. Kristina Karlberg
Silent Madness as Mrs. Collins

1983

Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)

1982

American Playhouse as Harriet White
Hotel
Creepshow as Aunt Bedelia (segment "Father's Day")
Inside the Third Reich as Gypsy woman
Divorce Wars: A Love Story as Barbara Harper

1981

Dynasty
The Hand as Psychologist
The Best Little Girl in the World as Madame Seurat
For Ladies Only as Rachel Loring

1980

Innan vintern kommer as Ami
Playing for Time as Frau Schmidt
Marilyn: The Untold Story as Natasha Lytess
Mom, the Wolfman and Me as Grandma Bergman

1979

Natural Enemies as Psychiatrist
Voices as Mrs. Lemon
Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet as Ambassadress

1978

Girlfriends as Beatrice
A Wedding as Ingrid Hellstrom
A Question of Guilt as Dr. Rosen

1977

Tabu as Sirkka Lind

1976

Welcome to L.A. as Susan Moore
The Tenth Level as Mrs. Schnagel

1974

Bell from Hell as Marta
Pappa Pellerins dotter

1973

The Way We Were as Paula Reisner

1972

A House Without Boundaries as Señorita Elvira

1970

Puzzle of a Downfall Child as Paula Galba

1969

Coming Apart as Monica

1968

Cauldron of Blood as Tania Badulescu

1967

The Diary of Anne Frank as Petronella Van Daan
Oscuros sueños de agosto as Isabel

1965

The F.B.I. as Eva Bolen
Brainstorm as Dr. Elizabeth Larstadt
Sylvia as Irma Olanski

1964

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Laura
Fanfare for a Death Scene as Ala Sarah

1963

An Affair of the Skin as Victoria

1962

The Damned as Freya Neilson
No Exit as Inez

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self
Ben Casey
King of Kings as Claudia
Five Fingers : The Temple of the Swinging Doll as Madame Zapote

1960

Johnny Midnight as Simone
The Story of Ruth as Eleilat
Weddings and Babies as Bea

1959

Bonanza as Angela Bergstrom
Rawhide
Adventures in Paradise as Sister Catherine
Play of the Week as Belia Odry

1958

Naked City as Lulu Kronen
Tempest as Catherine II
I Accuse! as Lucie Dreyfus

1957

DuPont Show of the Month as Camilla, la Perichole
The Halliday Brand as Aleta Burris
The Last Tycoon as Kathleen Moore

1956

Rendezvous in Black as Martine

1955

Run for Cover as Helga Swenson
Moonfleet as Mrs. Minton

1954

Climax! as Soledad Barojo

1953

Letter to Loretta as Louise Reynard

1952

The Raiders as Elena de Ortega
No Time for Flowers as Anna Svoboda

1951

Four in a Jeep as Franziska Idinger
Journey Into Light as Christine Thorssen

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Julie
Dark City as Victoria Winant
This Side of the Law as Evelyn Taylor
No Sad Songs for Me as Chris Radna
The Flying Missile as Karin Hansen
Backfire as Lysa Radoff

1949

Suspense
Night Unto Night as Ann Gracy
Singoalla as Singoalla

1948

Studio One as Lisa
The Philco Television Playhouse as Widow
The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
Adventures of Don Juan as Rainha Margarida
To the Victor as Christine Lund Lestrac

1946

Interlude as Vellamo Toivonen

1945

Svarta rosor
The Serious Game as Lydia Stille
Marie in the Windmill as Maria Holgersson

1944

Appassionata as Maria
Jag är eld och luft as Jenny Ahrman
Nebbie sul mare as Maria Rosai

1943

The Brothers' Woman as Emma
The Sin of Anna Lans as Anna Lans

1942

1941

If I Could Marry the Minister as Eva Örn
I paradis ... as Angelica Jansson

1940

Snurriga familjen as Cleaning woman