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Beck (Swedish TV series)

Swedish television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ16939437 ↗
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Beck is a Swedish crime drama movie series, based on characters featured in the Martin Beck novels of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, starring Peter Haber as the titular character. The first three series and two specials were released direct-to-video, with a small number of episodes also concurrently released theatrically. To date, fifty four episodes have been filmed, with all episodes from the fourth series onwards broadcast on C More.

The first series was written entirely by Rolf Börjlind, while several episodes in series two and three, and the two specials, were co-written by Rolf and Cilla Börjlind. From the books, the character of Kollberg is entirely omitted from the TV series. Mikael Persbrandt announced in 2015 that he would be leaving the series to focus on other projects, although he did return to film Gunvald, the first episode of series six. In 2015, the series was acquired by the BBC as part of their international crime drama slate. The first episode to be broadcast was Buried Alive, on BBC Four.

Cast

Peter Haber as Martin Beck

Mikael Persbrandt as Gunvald Larsson (Series 1–5)

Rebecka Hemse as Inger Beck

Ingvar Hirdwall as neighbour Valdemar (Series 1–9)

Peter Hüttner as coroner Oljelund (Series 1–Specials)

Stina Rautelin as Lena Klingström (Series 1–Specials)

Malin Birgerson as Alice Levander (Series 2)

Bo Höglund as waiter Mats (Series 1–Specials)

Marie Göranzon as Margareta Oberg (Series 2–3)

Måns Nathanaelson as Oskar Bergman (Series 3–)

Anna Asp as Jenny Bodén (Series 4–10)

Elmira Arikan as Ayda Çetin (Series 4–)

Jonas Karlsson as Klas Fredén (Series 4–9)

Åsa Karlin as Andrea Bergström (Series 4–8)

Kristofer Hivju as Steinar Hovland (Series 5–)

Jennie Silfverhjelm as Alexandra 'Alex' Beijer (Series 6–)

Martin Wallström as Josef Eriksson (Series 7–)

Valter Skarsgård as Vilhelm Beck (Series 8–)

Nina Zanjani as Ebba Ståhl (Series 10–)

Episodes

Series 1 (1997–1998)

Series 2 (2001–2002)

Series 3 (2006–2007)

Specials (2009–2010)

Series 4 (2015)

Series 5 (2016)

Series 6 (2018)

Series 7 (2020–2021)

Series 8 (2021–2022)

Series 9 (2022–2024)

In February 2022, the shooting of four Beck films began in Stockholm. (Beck 47–50)

Series 10 (2024–2025)

In February 2024 it was announced that season 10 would include 2 new movies (Beck 51–52) and will be released during later part of 2024 (51) and in 2025 (52).

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