Allan Edwall

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Aug 25, 1924 (100 years old)
Death date
Feb 07, 1997

Allan Edwall

Known For

Duo jag
2h 36m
Movie 1991

Duo jag

Gösta Ekman and Kent Andersson play two men, living together for a long time. One a small, skinny and unknown poet - the other a large, famous and celebrated actor.

Evert Taube 100 år
1h 39m
Movie 1990

Evert Taube 100 år

Jubilee special celebrating Evert Taube's 100th birthday with performances and interviews with friends and family.

Doktor Glas
1h 11m
Movie 1989

Doktor Glas

A one man show based on Hjalmar Söderberg's book about Doctor Glas and his dilemma with his patient.

The Journey to Melonia
1h 41m
Movie 1989

The Journey to Melonia

When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.

During the Journey to Melonia
0h 50m
Movie 1989

During the Journey to Melonia

Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia

Lighting
0h 47m
Movie 1988

Lighting

A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film "The Sacrifice."

Pirates of the Lake
1h 43m
Movie 1987

Pirates of the Lake

It is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing boat to take a boat trip so they steal it. They plan to examine all of Lake Maelaren, but a storm breaks out and the boat sinks. They go ashore, steal food and a new boat. While everybody else believes them to be dead, they have a wonderful time. They meet a crazy Count and find a dead body.

Ronja Rövardotter
TV Show 1986

Ronja Rövardotter

The Sacrifice
2h 29m
Movie 1986

The Sacrifice

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

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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