Allan Edwall
Acting
Born: August 25, 1924 · Rödön, Jämtlands län, Sweden
Died: February 7, 1997 (aged 72)
Highest Rated
Biography
Johan Allan Edwall (25 August 1924 – 7 February 1997) was a Swedish actor, director, author, composer and singer, best-known outside Sweden for the small roles he played in some of Ingmar Bergman's films, such as Fanny and Alexander (1982). He found his largest audience in the Scandinavian countries for playing lovable characters in several of the film and TV adaptations of the children's stories by Astrid Lindgren. He attended Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1949 to 1952. During his long career he appeared in over 400 works. At the 10th Guldbagge Awards in 1974, he won the award for Best Actor for his role as Emil's short-tempered father Anton Svensson in Emil and the Piglet. His 1984 film Åke and His World was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. In his self-written songs, he frequently attacked the injustices of society. The music is similar to folk music often using violin and accordion. He won a Swedish Grammy posthumously in 2006. Edwall also owned a theatre, Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm, which he bought in 1986 and operated until his death in 1997 of prostate cancer (it is now managed by Kristina Lugn’s daughter Martina Montelius). [citation needed]He was the father of photographer Mattias Edwall and stage director, actor and musician Måns Edwall (1960–2016). Acting colleague Erland Josephson wrote about him in Expressen after his death: "He was odd. But, damn it, he managed to be odd in a universal way!"
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Movies (73)
Fanny and Alexander
Oscar Ekdahl
The Virgin Spring
Beggar
Here Is Your Life
August
The Sacrifice
Otto
Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
Skalle-Per
Winter Light
Algot Frövik
Emil of Lonneberga
Anton Svensson
The New Land
Danjel
The Devil's Eye
The Ear Demon
My Home Is Copacabana
1965
The Brothers Lionheart
Mattias
New Mischief by Emil
Anton Svensson
You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
Herr Nilsson
All These Women
Jillker
A Dream Play
Axel
The Journey to Melonia
Prospero (voice)
Emil and the Piglet
Anton Svensson
The Emigrants
Danjel
Madicken of June Hill
Herr Nilsson
Åke and His World
Principal Godeman
Girls Without Rooms
1956
Games of Love and Loneliness
Markel
The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
Jacob
Limpan
Sture Charles 'Limpan' Lindberg
P & B
Josef "Stavros" Bendel
Rasmus and the Vagabond
Paradis-Oskar
Topaze
Albert Topaze
Interlude in the Marshland
Lineman
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
Wilhelmsson
The School of Wives
Arnolphe
To Be a Millionaire
Allan Persson
The Devil's Instrument
narrator
Nattens konung
Kristofer
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
The Wedding Day
Vicar
Hålet
Narrator (voice)
The Brig Three Lilies
Simon Toking
During the Journey to Melonia
(Prospero)
The Rooster
Thorsson
Kort är sommaren
The doctor
Eriksson
Eriksson - Verkstadsarbetare
Ingen morgondag
The poet
Who Loves Yngve Frej
Gustafsson
Sverige åt svenskarna
Doktor Karl Otto
Mr. Ernest
Doktor Chasuble
Pirates of the Lake
Frans i Flinta
Blackjackets
Narrator (voice)
On a Bench in a Park
Street character
Elvis! Elvis!
Elvis' Grandfather
The Devotion
Director
Good-Bye Nana
Lindbaum
SOPOR
Thorbjörn Fälldin
I morgon var en dröm
Markus
The Die Is Cast
Dag Serén
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
The vagrant
Doktor Glas
Doktor Glas
Av hjärtans lust
Servant
Tattarblod
Natan
The Phantom Carriage
Tramp
Resan till dej
Bendix' composer
We Are All Demons
Tor
Wild Birds
Fiorentino
Gustav Vasa
Engelbrekt
The Banquet Room
läkaren
4 x 4
1965
The Nervous Man
1986
Misantropen
Acaste
Dance on Roses
Olsson, journalist
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Blind-Jonas
Mondays with Fanny
1977
The Ghost Sonata
Gubben
Bröllopsfesten
Jonas
Bättre utan hund
Blumfeld
TV Shows (8)
Fanny and Alexander
Oscar Ekdahl · 3 eps
Emil of Lönneberga
Anton Svensson · 13 eps
Ronja Rövardotter
Skalle-Per · 3 eps
Madicken
herr Nilsson · 10 eps
Svenska noveller
Jonas · 1 eps
The Red Room
Olle Montanus · 9 eps
Engeln
Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrecht · 9 eps
Hemsöborna
Carlsson · 7 eps
