He also appeared in several other high-profile Swedish productions like The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, Mysteriet på Greveholm and The Simple-Minded Murderer.
[1] In the 1970s, Eriksson had a successful career at Malmö City Theatre, winning awards for playing McMurphy in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
In 2005 Anders Banke approached him to play the part of Professor Gerard Beckert, a vampiric geneticist and SS officer, in Frostbite.
Eriksson was not familiar with the vampire genre but thought the script was funny and had a fairy tale quality to it which he responded to.
In 2007 he was diagnosed with cancer, but treatment proved effective and he continued to be very much active in the theatric world of Stockholm.