Allan Edwall
Acting
Born 1924-08-25
Died 1997-02-07
Rödön, Jämtlands län, Sweden
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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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Filmography
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Acting
55 credits
Fanny and Alexander
Winter Light
Fanny and Alexander
Emil of Lönneberga
The Virgin Spring
The Sacrifice
The Devil's Eye
Sverige åt svenskarna
Svenska noveller
Duo jag
Pirates of the Lake
The Red Room
Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
The Brothers Lionheart
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
Sadist
Madicken
Engeln
Emil of Lonneberga
During the Journey to Melonia
Ingen morgondag
The Emigrants
The Devil's Instrument
Astrid Lindgrens älskade filmer
Ronja Rövardotter
Good-Bye Nana
Rasmus and the Vagabond
Doktor Glas
P & B
You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
All These Women
Dance on Roses
New Mischief by Emil
The Journey to Melonia
Madicken of June Hill
Emil and the Piglet
Hålet
Interlude in the Marshland
Limpan
Stolarna
The Brig Three Lilies
Here Is Your Life
The New Land
Eriksson
Åke and His World
Hemsöborna
The Rooster
Av hjärtans lust
I morgon var en dröm
The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Bättre utan hund
The School of Wives
Lighting
SOPOR
Writing
8 credits
Pirates of the Lake
Doktor Glas
Nisse och Greta
Limpan
Eriksson
Åke and His World
Bättre utan hund
The Nervous Man
Directing
7 credits
Pirates of the Lake
Doktor Glas
The Devotion
Eriksson
Åke and His World
Bättre utan hund
The Nervous Man
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