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Allan Edwall is a Actor, Director and Writer Suédois born on 25 august 1924 at Jämtland (Suede)

Allan Edwall

Allan Edwall
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Birth name Johan Allan Edwall
Nationality Suede
Birth 25 august 1924 at Jämtland (Suede)
Death 7 february 1997 (at 72 years) at Stockholm (Suede)
Awards Litteris et Artibus

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 Theatre School (Dramatens elevskola) from 1949–1952. 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 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). He is the father of photographer Mattias Edwall. 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!"

Biography

De 1949 à 1952, il étudie à la Dramatens elevskola de Stockholm (l'école du théâtre dramatique royal — en suédois, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, abrégé Dramaten —), où il a en particulier comme condisciple Max von Sydow. En 1950, il débute comme acteur au Dramaten. Là, il interprète soixante-trois rôles (dont bon nombre dans des mises en scène d'Alf Sjöberg), la dernière fois en 1993 ; en outre, lui-même met en scène deux pièces (en 1970 et 1978) et deux autres, qu'il a écrites, sont jouées en 1972 et 1978, toujours au Dramaten. En 1986, il fonde à Stockholm un théâtre indépendant, le Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra , où il travaille notamment avec la dramaturge Kristina Lugn (celle-ci, depuis le décès d'Edwall en 1997, en est la directrice artistique).

Au cinéma, où il est acteur entre 1953 et 1989, Allan Edwall collabore entre autres, à plusieurs reprises et dès 1960, avec Ingmar Bergman — qu'il retrouve au théâtre en 1970-1971 —. Mentionnons son rôle (l'un des mieux connus en France) d’Oscar Ekdahl dans le dernier film de Bergman en 1982, Fanny et Alexandre. À la télévision, il participe à des téléfilms (deux sont réalisés par Bergman) et à quelques séries, entre 1958 et 1991. Il est également réalisateur de trois films et de deux téléfilms, dont il est aussi le scénariste (et acteur, s'agissant des films). Notons encore qu'il collabore comme scénariste avec d'autres réalisateurs, sur un film (adapté d'un de ses romans, car il est écrivain à ses heures), un téléfilm et deux mini-séries — voir filmographie ci-dessous —.

Enfin, activité non négligeable dans sa carrière, Allan Edwall est l'auteur-compositeur-interprète de nombreuses chansons dans un style populaire, du genre musique folk. Ainsi, il publie six albums de musique entre 1979 et 1991 (quatre autres seront encore publiés en 2002 et 2005, donc à titre posthume).

Usually with

Jan Troell
Jan Troell
(4 films)
Olle Hellbom
Olle Hellbom
(10 films)
Eddie Axberg
Eddie Axberg
(11 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Allan Edwall (35 films)

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Actor

Voyage to Melonia, 1h44
Directed by Per Åhlin
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Allan Edwall, Olle Sarri, Ernst Günther, Tomas von Brömssen, Jan-Olof Strandberg, Hans Alfredson
Roles Prospero (voice)
Rating72% 3.6382853.6382853.6382853.6382853.638285
The beautiful paradise island Melonia is inhabited by the sorcerer Prospero with his daughter Miranda, the albatross Ariel, the good-natured vegetable-faced gardener Caliban and William the dog-nosed poet. They live a generally peaceful life, except for Caliban who has to work hard with the garden. A few miles away lies the dark island Plutonia, where the greedy capitalists Slug and Slagg rule. Once as green and flourishing as Melonia, Plutonia is now perceived as hell on earth, where children are forced to, under slave conditions, build weapons and tools of war, which Slug and Slagg believe is the way of the future. With Plutonia's resources nearly exhausted, Slug and Slagg turn their gaze on the unexploited Melonia, scheming to take it over with a gigantic drill.
The Sacrifice, 2h29
Directed by Andreï Tarkovski
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Themes Philosophie, Arme nucléaire
Actors Erland Josephson, Allan Edwall, Susan Fleetwood, Sven Wollter, Valérie Mairesse, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Roles Otto
Rating78% 3.9478553.9478553.9478553.9478553.947855
The film opens on the birthday of Alexander (Erland Josephson), an actor who gave up the stage to work as a journalist, critic, and lecturer on aesthetics. He lives in a beautiful house with his actress wife Adelaide (Susan Fleetwood), stepdaughter Marta (Filippa Franzén), and young son, "Little Man", who is temporarily mute due to a throat operation. Alexander and Little Man plant a tree by the sea-side, when Alexander's friend Otto, a part-time postman, delivers a birthday card to him. When Otto asks, Alexander mentions that his relationship with God is "nonexistent". After Otto leaves, Adelaide and Victor, a medical doctor and a close family friend who performed Little Man's operation, arrive at the scene and offer to take Alexander and Little Man home in Victor's car. However, Alexander prefers to stay behind and talk to his son. In his monologue, Alexander first recounts how he and Adelaide found this lovely house near the sea by accident, and how they fell in love with the house and surroundings, but then enters a bitter tirade against the state of modern man. As Tarkovsky wrote, Alexander is weary of "the pressures of change, the discord in his family, and his instinctive sense of the threat posed by the relentless march of technology"; in fact, he has "grown to hate the emptiness of human speech".
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, 2h6
Directed by Tage Danielsson
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman, Per Oscarsson, Allan Edwall, Tommy Körberg, Georg Adelly
Roles Skalle-Per
Rating72% 3.6464953.6464953.6464953.6464953.646495
Ronja, daughter of robber-chief Mattis becomes friends with Birk Borkasson. His father, robber-chief Borka, is the main rival and fiercest enemy of Ronja's father.
The School of Wives
Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Alf Sjöberg
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Allan Edwall, Lena Nyman, Stellan Skarsgård, Björn Gustafsson, Ulla Sjöblom, Lasse Pöysti
Roles Arnolphe
Rating64% 3.2324853.2324853.2324853.2324853.232485
Le téléfilm est en fait une captation télévisuelle de la pièce de théâtre de Molière, L'École des femmes.
Fanny and Alexander, 3h8
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Börje Ahlstedt, Anna Bergman, Lena Olin, Harriet Andersson, Gunn Wållgren, Bertil Guve
Roles Oscar Ekdahl
Rating80% 4.047954.047954.047954.047954.04795
The story is set during 1907–09 (with an epilogue in 1910), in the Swedish town of Uppsala where Alexander (Bertil Guve), his sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls, live. The siblings' parents are both involved in theater and are happily married until their father, Oscar (Allan Edwall), suddenly dies from a stroke. Shortly thereafter, their mother, Emilie (Ewa Fröling), marries Edvard Vergérus (Jan Malmsjö), the local bishop and a widower, and moves into his ascetic home where he lives with his mother, sister, aunt and maids.
The Rooster, 1h37
Directed by Lasse Hallström
Origin Suede
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Magnus Härenstam, Maria Johannson, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Åsa Bjerkerot, Pernilla August, Allan Edwall
Roles Thorsson
Rating58% 2.948032.948032.948032.948032.94803
Nous sommes en 1944, et les hommes sont partis à la guerre. Un ingénieur chargé d'évaluer une usine textile s'emploie à séduire le personnel exclusivement féminin.
Elvis! Elvis!, 1h41
Directed by Kay Pollak
Genres Drama
Actors Allan Edwall, Kent Andersson, Kim Anderzon, Svea Holst, Lars Edström
Roles Elvis' Grandfather
Rating59% 2.9510252.9510252.9510252.9510252.951025