Alf Kjellin

Alf Kjellin
Kjellin with Barbara Bain in an episode of Mission:Impossible, 1969.
Born	(1920-02-28)28 February 1920 Lund, Sweden
Died	5 April 1988(1988-04-05) (aged 68) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1937–1985
Spouse(s)	Karin Nordgren Gun Hellberg (1958-1973) (divorced)

Alf Kjellin (28 February 1920 – 5 April 1988) was a Swedish film actor and director, who also appeared on some television shows.

Kjellin was well established as a film actor when he occasionally took on roles in television shows. For example, in 1965 he prominently guest-starred as Stalag Luft Kommandant Colonel Max Richter in the two-part episode "P.O.W." (Episodes 30 and 31) of Twelve O'Clock High. He also directed the 1974 Columbo episodes Negative Reaction and Mind Over Mayhem and an episode of the 1976 series Sara.

Kjellin was born in Lund, Sweden and died in Los Angeles, California of a heart attack. In America he used the stage name Christopher Kent.

Selected filmography

• Bright Prospects (1941)
• The Fight Continues (1941)
• Prince Gustaf (1944)
• Torment (1944)
• Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
• Woman Without a Face (1947)
• Madame Bovary (1949)
• This Can't Happen Here (1950)
• Summer Interlude (1951)
• Divorced (1951)
• My Six Convicts (1952)
• The Juggler (1953)
• Summer Place Wanted (1957)
• Panic in Paradise (1960)
• Two Living, One Dead (1961)
• The Pleasure Garden (1961 - directed)
• The Victors (1963)
• Ship of Fools (1965)
• Assault on a Queen (1966)
• Ice Station Zebra (1968) - Col. Ostrovsky
• Midas Run (1969 - directed)

External links

• Alf Kjellin at IMDb
• Alf Kjellin at the Swedish Film Database