Trivia

On 5 February 2009, Axelman was found guilty by the Gotland district Court, of three charges of attempted murder. According to the Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine, Axelman suffered from a severe mental disorder and in need of psychiatric treatment, and that there was a risk that he would commit further offenses. The district court's sentence was established by the Svea Court of Appeal on 10 June 2010. In April 2012, Uppsala Administrative Court decided that Axelman would be released.

Axelman was also a painter and book illustrator and held solo exhibitions in Uppsala in 1953 and 1954, Visby in 1983, 1985, 1987-1989, Stockholm 1986-1989, Grythyttan in 1987, Monaco in 1989, London in 1990 and in New York City in 1990.

He produced cultural programs Prisma from 1958 to 1961 and several programs together with the artist Ardy Strüwer and Lasse Åberg.

He passed studentexamen in Örebro in 1951 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955 and a Master of Philosophy degree from Uppsala University in 1956.

Axelman was also CEO of AB Stockholms Aero from 1984 and he was a member of the Society Stallbröderna.

Around two o'clock in the afternoon of 1 December 2008, Axelman shot the chairman of the Brucebo Foundation, Joakim Hansson in the back at Brucebo north of Visby on Gotland. There had been a dispute between the owner of the house, the Brucebo Foundation, and Torbjörn Axelman, who previously owned the house and now rented a part of it. Axelman had lived in the house for more than 30 years, but now he would be dismissed from his lease.

Torbjörn Axelman was a Swedish television producer, director and writer.

Axelman did TV studies in England in 1956 and the United States in 1961 and 1966.

He was also part of joint exhibition, for example at the Liljevalchs konsthall in 1961.

Axelman was a journalist at Nerikes Allehanda and Tidningen Upsala periodically from 1952 to 1966 and was a producer at Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio from 1956 to 1985.

Axelman staged a number of revues in Uppsala with Owe Thörnqvist in the 1950s, which then Gösta Bernhard and Stig Bergendorff borrowed numbers from for Casinorevyn in Stockholm.

Axelman wrote a number of poetry collections, most of which were published by the publisher "Warlocke" and which was owned together with Lee Hazlewood. The last collection of poems, which contains material from the earlier ones, is however published by Pond Förlag, whose publisher Pehr Hasselrot also organized an exhibition in Visby with Axelman's paintings; these two things are the first cultural projects with Axelman's involvement, undertaken after the Brucebo events, and to that extent marked a rekindling.

In the late 1960s he collaborated with Lee Hazlewood in a Swedish TV production "Kärlek og andra brott", based on Hazlewood's LP Love and Other Crimes .

In 1970, he and Lee Hazlewood recorded a music video for the album "Cowboy in Sweden" on Gotland.

Axelman and Lee Hazlewood have also been successful in the prestigious Gold Rose in Montreux with the program " NSVIP's/Not so very important people", where he received both the Gold Rose and the international press award.