Allan Edwall
Johan Allan Edwall was a Swedish stage and screen actor, singer, writer and director. He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's Acting School in 1952. Growing up in the landscape of Jämtland, Edwall spent some time working on a ship before he arrived in Stockholm in the 1940s, just barely making a living as a writer, painter and poet before he was admitted to the Royal Dramatic Theater's acting school in 1949. After graduation he worked at the theater in the 1950s and 1960s but he was mainly a jack-of-all-trades, appearing on the stage, in movies as well as recording and publishing his own songs. He is remembered for a string of queer roles, such as Emil's father in the Emil of Lönneberga films, the cheerful vagabond in the Rasmus and the vagabond movie, the dying father in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander as well as Carlsson in the TV adaptation of Strindberg's Hemsöborna. In the later part of his life he owned his own theater, Brunnsgatan 4, in Stockholm. Biography by Mattias Thuresson.
Fanny and Alexander
as Oscar EkdahlAs children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their...
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Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
as Skalle-PerRonia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the...
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Winter Light
as Algot FrövikA Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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The Sacrifice
as OttoAlexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and...
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The Virgin Spring
as BeggarDevout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster...
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The Brothers Lionheart
as MattiasAfter brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away they meet again in Nangijala, the land of eternal...
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New Mischief by Emil
as Anton SvenssonEmil's reputation for being a troublemaker makes the Svensson family's neighbours take up a...
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The Emigrants
as DanjelA Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden,...
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The Devil's Eye
as The Ear DemonThe devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it,...
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The Rooster
as ThorssonIn 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work...
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Emil of Lonneberga
as Anton SvenssonEmil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid...
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Emil and the Piglet
as Anton SvenssonNursing a piglet back to life because it's the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.
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Voyage to Melonia
as Prospero (voice)When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on...
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Madicken of June Hill
as Herr NilssonA second movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about...
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Here Is Your Life
as AugustA working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and...
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The New Land
as DanjelA Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during...
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Rasmus and the Vagabond
as Paradis-Oskar9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call...
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P & B
as Josef "Stavros" BendelPettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a...
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You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
as Herr NilssonMadicken is a Swedish girl from the upper level family, growing up during the time of first...
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SOPOR
as Thorbjörn FälldinOne Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy...
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A Dream Play
as Axel"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of...
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All These Women
as JillkerPretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research...
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The School of Wives
as ArnolpheThe elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with....
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Elvis! Elvis!
as Elvis' GrandfatherThe adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.
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Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
as WilhelmssonPeople on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of...
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The Phantom Carriage
as TrampThe third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm...
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
as SelfThe Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece....
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Sverige åt svenskarna
as Doktor Karl OttoThis farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal...
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My Home Is Copacabana
as uncreditedHomeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless...
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Dance on Roses
as Olsson, journalistMarianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence...
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Stjärnbilder
as SelfA tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and...
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Ingen morgondag
as The poetIt is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive...
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Åke and His World
as Principal GodemanÅke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the...
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On a Bench in a Park
as Street characterSam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates,...
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Pirates of the Lake
as Frans i FlintaIt is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing...
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Kort är sommaren
as The doctorLieutenant Glahn arrives in a small village in northern Norway. He wants to live in peace in the...
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
as The vagrantSomeone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
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Blackjackets
as Narrator (voice)Young Greasers, known as Raggare in Sweden, gather at a café outside Stockholm. Roffe is the...
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To Be a Millionaire
as Allan PerssonThe terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town...
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Limpan
as Sture Charles 'Limpan' LindbergLimpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a...
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Games of Love and Loneliness
as MarkelThis co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since...
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Who Loves Yngve Frej
as GustafssonA tragicomic story about rural extinction and the meeting between the local shoemaker Gustafsson...
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The Wedding Day
as VicarAnders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.
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Gustav Vasa
as EngelbrektGustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his...
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During the Journey to Melonia
as (Prospero)Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia
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Tattarblod
as NatanDavid, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals...
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Lighting
as HimselfA documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's...
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Topaze
as Albert TopazeA shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes...
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The Die Is Cast
as Dag SerenA member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The...
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Av hjärtans lust
as ServantThe Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to...
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The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
as JacobA sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a...
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Interlude in the Marshland
as LinemanIt's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts...
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Midsommardröm i fattighuset
as Blind-JonasBlind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows...
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Evert Taube 100 år
as SelfJubilee special celebrating Evert Taube's 100th birthday with performances and interviews with...
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The Banquet Room
as läkarenA young girl is a confidante to four men who regularly visit her in her apartment.
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The Brig Three Lilies
as Simon TokingOn the coast of Sweden in 1888, a 12-year-old orphan finds adventure and new hope that his...
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Vildfåglar
as Fiorentino"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le...
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Duo jag
as The old boyfriendGösta Ekman and Kent Andersson play two men, living together for a long time. One a small,...
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The Devotion
as DirectorA punctuation during a theater rehearsal between actor and director.
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Resan till dej
as Bendix' composerThe marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes...
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Good-Bye Nana
as LindbaumA film that questions the right of parents to force their children into the adult world's...
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Doktor Glas
as Doktor GlasA one man show based on Hjalmar Söderberg's book about Doctor Glas and his dilemma with his patient.
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We Are All Demons
as TorA veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the...
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Eriksson
as Eriksson - VerkstadsarbetareEriksson is a divorced engineer without intellectual interests. He lives alone in a friendly,...
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The Ghost Sonata
as GubbenThe Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the...
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Mondays with Fanny
as uncreditedRobert works at a warehouse and as a cinema usher and lives in a strained marriage. Every...
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The Devil's Instrument
as narratorA jazz bassist who surveys a beautiful girl at a gig decides to try to get her home. But the...
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Bröllopsfesten
as JonasA story about Frida, Jonas and their wedding in Småland.
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4 x 4
as uncreditedFour short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
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Bättre utan hund
as BlumfeldOn the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by...
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Fanny and Alexander
as Oscar EkdahlThrough the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl...
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Emil of Lönneberga
as Anton SvenssonEmil i Lönneberga is a Swedish television adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Emil i Lönneberga books
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Röda rummet
as Olle MontanusStockholm in the 1870's. The protagonist Arvid Falk, employed as office notary.He dream of...
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Madicken
as herr NilssonMadicken's life on Junibacken is filled with ups and down.
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Hemsöborna
as CarlssonCarlsson arrives at the widow Flod's farm in the Stockholm archipelago to help in the running of...
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