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Allan Edwall

Allan Edwall

Birthday: 1924-08-25 | Place of Birth: Rödön, Jämtlands län, Sweden

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1989
Voyage to Melonia

as    Prospero (voice)

1986
The Sacrifice

as    Otto

1984
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

as    Skalle-Per

1981
Rasmus and the Vagabond

as    Paradis-Oskar

1981
SOPOR

as    Thorbjörn Fälldin

1980
Madicken of June Hill

as    Herr Nilsson

1979
You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken

as    Herr Nilsson

1974
Engeln

as    Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrecht

1973
Emil and the Piglet

as    Anton Svensson

1973
The New Land

as    Danjel

1972
The Emigrants

as    Danjel

1971
Emil of Lonneberga

as    Anton Svensson

1967
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person

as    Wilhelmsson

1960
The Virgin Spring

as    Beggar