Pierre Lindstedt had a long career in Swedish television, theatre and film.
He played, among other roles, the farmhand Arvid in Jan Troell’s emigrant films. For an entire generation, he became synonymous with the ghost Staffan in the 1996 TV Christmas calendar “Mysteriet på Greveholm”. The success was followed by a sequel at Christmas 2012. In the 1989 Christmas calendar “Ture Sventon privatdetektiv”, he played Oxen, an underling of Ville Vessla.
He performed at Riksteatern (the national touring theatre) and was employed at Malmö City Theatre for 17 years. For a few years in the 1990s, he and the ensemble ran their own theatre, Glädjehuset, in Malmö.
Pierre Lindstedt was born on Dalarö in 1943 and was the son of actor Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt. He said that he initially did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps, but became an actor anyway after working as a stagehand at, among other places, Dramaten (the Royal Dramatic Theatre).
Together with his father, he played a porter in the reviled TV series “Mysinge motell” in 1968. The following year, Pierre Lindstedt got a role in Bo Widerberg’s film “Ådalen 31”, which led to roles in Jan Troell’s emigrant films.
