Person Details

Birthday: 1924-08-25 23:07:53

Death: 1997-02-07 23:07:53

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Rödön, Jämtlands län, Sweden

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 62

TV Involvements: 6


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Fanny and Alexander
Average
8

Fanny and Alexander

(1984) Oscar Ekdahl
The Sacrifice
Average
8

The Sacrifice

(1986) Otto
The Virgin Spring
Average
8

The Virgin Spring

(1960) Beggar
Fanny and Alexander
Average
8

Fanny and Alexander

(1982) Oscar Ekdahl
Ronia, The Robber's Daughter
Average
7

Ronia, The Robber's Daughter

(1984) Skalle-Per
The Brothers Lionheart
Average
7

The Brothers Lionheart

(1977) Mattias
The Emigrants
Average
8

The Emigrants

(1971) Danjel
Winter Light
Average
8

Winter Light

(1963) Algot Frövik

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1996 Blumfeld
1995 Self
1991 The old boyfriend
1990 Self
1989 Doktor Glas
Prospero (voice)
(Prospero)
1988 Himself
1987 Frans i Flinta
1986 Skalle-Per
Otto
1984 Oscar Ekdahl
Skalle-Per
Principal Godeman
Self
1983 Arnolphe
Josef "Stavros" Bendel
Sture Charles 'Limpan' Lindberg
1982 Oscar Ekdahl
1981 Paradis-Oskar
Thorsson
Thorbjörn Fälldin
1980 Blind-Jonas
Herr Nilsson
Doktor Karl Otto
Allan Persson
1979 Herr Nilsson
herr Nilsson
1978 Jonas
Jonas
1977 Mattias
N/A
Markel
1976 Elvis' Grandfather
1975 Anton Svensson
1974 Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrecht
Johan
Kristofer
1973 Anton Svensson
Gustafsson
1972 Gubben
Anton Svensson
Danjel
1971 Anton Svensson
Danjel
1970 Lindbaum
Olle Montanus
1969 Tor
Jacob
Eriksson - Verkstadsarbetare
1967 Wilhelmsson
1966 August
Falk
Carlsson
1965 narrator
Director
Engelbrekt
läkaren
N/A
N/A
Lineman
1964 Jillker
1963 Axel
Albert Topaze
Algot Frövik
1962 The doctor
Old man
1961 Simon Toking
The vagrant
1960 Street character
Demon
Vicar
Servant
Dag Seren
Beggar
1959 Narrator (voice)
1958 Tramp
1957 The poet
1956 N/A
1955 Fiorentino
1954 Olsson, journalist
Natan
1953 Bendix' composer
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Directing


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