Torsten Lilliecrona

Torsten Casimir Wilhelm Florusson Lilliecrona ( born January 4, 1921 in Jonkoping, † 15 October 1999 Höganäs ) was a Swedish actor.

Lilliecrona broke his schooling from to pursue his acting career. After he took acting lessons with Gabriel Alw, he was adopted in 1940 elevskola on the drama activity. He returned after a stay in Finland, the Vasa Theatre back to Sweden, there he was engaged at various private theaters. He achieved his breakthrough by the comedy Trasiga änglar 1953. Early 60s he was a member of the television theater companies.

1962 Lilliecrona was hired at the City Theatre in Gothenburg, where he worked until 1992. Properly known and loved it but was finally his role as the love, awkward uncle Melcher in Astrid Lindgren's television series Seacrow Island in 1964, which the films Tjorven, Bosun and Moses 1964 Tjorven and Skrollan 1965 Tjorven and Mysak nachfolgten 1966. However, this role also had a negative effect on his career, as his person was so strongly associated with the Melcher Melcherson that he had trouble getting in the following years other roles in film or television.