Sven Hugo Borg

Sven Hugo Borg, born in Vinslöv, Sweden, was a Swedish-American character actor who came to Hollywood by way of the Swedish Consulate in Los Angeles, where he worked as a secretary. There he met Greta Garbo, newly arrived in the city, and agreed to act as her interpreter; he filled that role from 1925 to 1929, and the experience led him to take up acting, building on dramatic work he had already done on the Swedish stage. He remained at the consulate until the late 1930s. During World War II he was in demand in Hollywood, playing Nazi officers and Scandinavian resistance fighters, and he took a wide range of other parts, among them Sverre, King of Norway, in The Crusades. Borg died in 1981 in Los Angeles, California.