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Åke Lundqvist

Swedish actor (1936–2021)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ3373315 ↗
Source-derived summary

Åke Bertil Lundqvist (9 June 1936 – 4 August 2021) was a Swedish actor.

Lundqvist began his acting career in 1973, when he played a role as the bookkeeper Schröder in Selma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berlings saga.

Filmography

2009 – Ångrarna

2008/2009 & 2012 - Häxan Surtant

2001 – Röd jul

2000 - The Mind's Eye (novel)

Jakten på en mördare (1999)

Beck – Mannen med ikonerna (1997) (TV-film)

1972 – Ture Sventon, privatdetektiv

References

"Åke Lundqvist" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 2010-02-11.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Åke Lundqvist” is swedish actor (1936–2021). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lundqvist, Swedish and actor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 2021, 1973, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-06-09. For this dossier, Lundqvist, Swedish and actor is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “swedish actor (1936–2021)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3373315. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936, 2021, 1973 and 2009.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Åke Lundqvist” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.