Swedish actor in Bergman films

Stig Olin, 87, a Swedish actor, director and composer who appeared in many early Ingmar Bergman films and was the father of actress Lena Olin, died June 28 at a nursing home near Stockholm. No cause of death was reported.

The illegitimate son of a pharmacist, Olin was born in Stockholm and was adopted into another family by school age, according to the Ingmar Bergman Face to Face website.

After his screen debut in 1940, he played minor roles in a dozen films while working under prominent directors such as Gustaf Molander and Alf Sjoberg. He came to prominence in Arne Mattsson’s 1946 film “Incorrigible” as a young man sent to boarding school, where he becomes a full-fledged thug.

For Bergman, he played a gigolo in “Crisis” (1946), the filmmaker’s first time behind the camera; a prostitute’s boss in “The Devil’s Wanton” (1949); a straying newlywed in “To Joy” (1950); and a ballet master in “Illicit Interlude” (1951).

In the early 1950s, he started his career as a director and in the late 1950s started a three-decade career with Sveriges Radio, Sweden’s public-broadcasting system, for several years serving as head of programming.

Matt McHale, 50, a longtime sports journalist in Southern California, died Monday in Norwalk, Conn., after a heart attack. At the Daily News of Los Angeles, he was best known for his beat coverage of the Dodgers and the Kings. He left the newspaper in February because of a medical disability related to his diabetes.