Johan ''August'' Lindberg (3 September 1846 – 18 November 1916) was a

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actor, stage director and theatre manager.

Biography

Lindberg was born at

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, Sweden. He was the son of Carl Fr. Lindberg and his wife Kristina Jansdotter. He moved to

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and first work at the Blå porten restaurant and cafe in

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. In 1865, he the

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where he remain until the spring of 1866. After graduation, Lindberg was employed by the traveling theater company operated by Carl Otto Lindmark (1830-1901). Lindberg played at almost all of the major theatres in Sweden, including the

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and the

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in Stockholm, and several times toured the provinces with travelling theatre companies. His acting was characterized by his strange diction and his eccentric ways, and he was often mimicked, but in spite of this was considered one of the country's foremost actors. Lindberg is most famous for his rendition of ''

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'', which he played countless times during his career, and he also played all of the other great

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parts. As a theatre manager he was among the first to introduce the plays of

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in Sweden, and with his one-man interpretations of plays such as Shakespeare's ''

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'' and

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's ''

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'', he toured Sweden and the

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Personal life

Lindberg was married to actress

Augusta Lindberg Augusta Lindberg (; 17 March 1866 – 3 December 1943) was a Swedish stage actress. Lindberg also appeared in silent films, such as the 1925 historical epic ''Charles XII''.Kwiatkowski p.33 She was married to the actor August Lindberg and was the ...

(1866–1943) and was the father of author Stina Bergman (1888–1976), director

Per Lindberg Per Lindberg (5 March 1890 – 7 February 1944) was a Swedish theatre and film director. Biography Lindberg was born in Stockholm as the son of the actress Augusta Lindberg and the actor, theater director and manager August Lindberg. His sister ...

(1890–1944) and Greta Lindberg (1886–1978). He was the father-in-law of playwright

Hjalmar Bergman Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman (19 September 1883 in Örebro, Sweden – 1 January 1931 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swedish writer and playwright. Biography The son of a banker in Örebro, Bergman briefly studied philosophy at Uppsala Univers ...

who was married to his daughter, Stina Bergman.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindberg, August (actor) 20th-century Swedish male actors Swedish theatre directors Swedish male stage actors 1846 births 1916 deaths People from Hedemora 19th-century Swedish male actors Male actors from Dalarna County