Mats Helge

Biography

Mats Helge Olsson is a Swedish producer, screenwriter and director. He started out as a filmmaker creating lingonberry westerns, a paraphrase on the concept of spaghetti westerns. Several well known and respected Swedish actors participated in the film projects. Together with the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, he made "Sverige åt svenskarna/Sweden to the Swedes" (1980) that resulted in a debt of SEK 16 million and the film project went bankrupt after a few months. Further on in the 1980s, Mats Helge started a film factory where he produced several English-language low budget action films. 15 feature films in all came out of Mats Helge's initiative.

Directed

1. Blood Tracks (1985) — Director
2. The Ninja Mission (1984) — Director
3. The Russian Ninja (1989) — Director
4. Animal Protector (1988) — Director
5. Dead Man's Trail (1975) — Director
6. The Mad Bunch (1989) — Director
7. Eagle Island (1986) — Director
8. The Forgotten Wells (1994) — Director
9. Fatal Secret (1988) — Director
10. Nordexpressen (1992) — Director
11. Ghost Hunters (1987) — Director
12. Tvingad att leva (1980) — Director
13. The Frozen Star (1977) — Director
14. Heja Sverige! (1979) — Director
15. The Hired Gun (1989) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Blood Tracks (1985) — Frank the Caretaker
2. The Ninja Mission (1984) — Ivan
3. Eagle Island (1986) — Intruder
4. Animal Protector (1988) — Van Effen
5. Ghost Hunters (1987) — Böna
6. The Director Who Disappeared: The Story of The Ninja Mission (2013) — Himself (archive footage)