Henric Holmberg was best known as a member of the musical theater group Oktober in the 1970s and as an actor and director at the Gothenburg City Theater and the Backa Teater.
He was born in Växjö and grew up in Miselås in Småland. He came into contact with theater for the first time through the performances at the Riksteatern in Växjö. As a student in Lund, he was involved in the student theater there.
In 1973 he was part of the later musical theater group Oktober, which also included Eva Remaeus (“Five ants are more than four elephants”). The group’s breakthrough came with the performance “Sven Klang’s Quintet,” which became a Guldbagge Prize-winning film in 1976. A few years later, Oktober got a permanent stage in Södertälje, where they became a valued theater group.
Henric Holmberg is gone October 1984 and was engaged to Unga Klara. In 1992 it moved on to Gothenburg and the Backa Theater.
– Henric Holmberg was a fantastic actor. I first saw him on stage in Gothenburg in the early 1990s, in a production of Raymond Queneau’s Stilövningar, where he left an indelible impression alone on stage. Of course he was present as an actor, but it was more than that, as if he was insisting that what was happening was really important, says DN critic Malin Ullgren.
He made his film debut in 1975 in Tage Danielsson’s “Let the prisoners go – it’s ours!” He then made a long series of film and television roles, including “The Flight of Engineer Andrée”, the Christmas calendar “When the Carousels Sleep”, “The Health Journey. A slim film of great importance” and “Tsatziki, the mother and the police”. The last film role was “Se opp för Jönssonligan” in 2020. His last play was Mattias Andersson’s “Flotten, Hemmet, Sandlådan 2014”.
