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Lars Hanson is a Actor Suédois born on 25 july 1886 at Gothenburg (Suede)

Lars Hanson

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Birth name Lars Mauritz Hanson
Nationality Suede
Birth 25 july 1886 at Gothenburg (Suede)
Death 8 april 1965 (at 78 years) at Stockholm (Suede)

Lars Hanson (July 26, 1886 – April 8, 1965) was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.

Biography

Born Lars Mauritz Hanson in Göteborg, Sweden, Hanson began his career on the stages of Sweden after studying drama in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm as a Shakespearean actor, appearing in such classics as Othello and Hamlet. Hanson made his film debut in the 1915 film Dolken, directed by Mauritz Stiller, and his popularity as a leading man in his homeland grew with ensuing roles. He was a student of Dramatens elevskola.

While already a well established popular actor in Sweden and much of continental Europe, Lars Hanson gained greater international recognition for his role as the title character in the 1923 Stiller film Gösta Berlings saga (English: The Story of Gösta Berling), which featured a young Mauritz Stiller protégé named Greta Garbo in one of her first major appearances on screen as well as film stage actress Gerda Lundequist. At the request of American actress Lillian Gish, Hanson arrived in Hollywood, California in 1926 (the same year as Garbo) to star opposite Gish in the film version of The Scarlet Letter directed by fellow countryman Victor Sjöström.

In 1922, Lars Hanson married the ex-wife of influential director Gustaf Molander, Swedish actress Karin Molander. The couple remained married until Hanson's death in 1965.

Hanson's Hollywood career as an actor steadily grew momentum during the 1920s and he was paired with Greta Garbo in two more motion pictures; MGM's 1927 box-office hit Flesh and the Devil, which also starred Garbo's offscreen lover, the successful film actor John Gilbert, and 1928's The Divine Woman, again directed by Victor Sjöström. Sjöström also directed Hanson in a performance opposite Lillian Gish in The Wind (1928). By the end of the 1920s however, the era of the silent film was waning, and seeing that his heavy Swedish accent might be a liability in American films, Lars Hanson returned to Europe.

Upon arriving back in Europe in 1928, Hanson starred in the aptly titled German film Heimkehr (English: Homecoming) opposite Gustav Fröhlich and Dita Parlo. The following year, he starred in a British version of The Informer filmed at Elstree Studios, playing the same role for which Victor McLaglen won an Academy Award for Best Actor in the John Ford-directed version six years later.

Lars Hanson continued to appear in Swedish films until the early 1950s before retiring. Hanson's last performance was in the 1951 film Dårskapens hus (The Nuthouse).

In Sweden Hanson balanced his film work with an outstanding stage career, making memorable appearances in A Dream Play (1935), The Ghost Sonata (1942), and as James Tyrone in the world premiere of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (1956). In 1956, Hanson, along with actress Inga Tidblad (who played Mary Tyrone) also became the first two actors to receive The Eugene O'Neill Award; today known as Sweden's most prestigious theatre award and presented annually to the country's most outstanding stage actors. Hanson was also a successful Shakespearean actor, especially for his performances as Richard III and Hamlet.

Lars Hanson died in Stockholm, Sweden in 1965 after a short illness at the age of 78.

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Filmography of Lars Hanson (21 films)

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One of the Hollywood Ten, 1h49
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi, Ángela Molina, John Sessions, Christopher Fulford, Geraint Wyn Davies
Roles Howard Hughes
Rating60% 3.049113.049113.049113.049113.04911
The film opens at the 1937 Academy Awards, where Biberman's wife, Gale Sondergaard (Greta Scacchi), wins the first ever "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar. Although the anti-Fascist sentiment in her acceptance speech gets her labelled a "commie" by some observers, she and Biberman (Jeff Goldblum) are placed under contract at Warner Bros.
The Nuthouse, 1h17
Directed by Hasse Ekman
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Hasse Ekman, Lars Hanson, Gunnar Sjöberg, Douglas Håge, Eva Henning, Åke Fridell
Roles Överste von Blankenau (archive footage)
Rating47% 2.3507652.3507652.3507652.3507652.350765
During excavations in Stockholm in the year 2248 45,000 feet film from the 1940s by master director Hasse Ekman is found. The material is in disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles material that is believed to master his artistic intentions.
His Excellency, 1h41
Directed by Hasse Ekman
Genres Drama
Actors Lars Hanson, Gunnar Sjöberg, Stig Järrel, Hugo Björne, Tord Stål, Sven Magnusson
Roles His Excellency Herbert von Blankenau
Rating51% 2.5654252.5654252.5654252.5654252.565425
A celebrated Austrian poet strongly opposes nazism, meanwhile his daughter falls in love with a leading nazi who becomes commander over the concentration camp where his Excellency later is imprisoned.
Ride Tonight!, 1h46
Directed by Gustaf Molander
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Oscar Ljung, Lars Hanson, Gerd Hagman, Eva Dahlbeck, Hilda Borgström, Erik "Bullen" Berglund
Roles Jon Stånge
Rating63% 3.176213.176213.176213.176213.17621
In 17th century Southern Sweden a peasant uprising takes place against German landowners.
The First Squadron, 1h32
Directed by Hasse Ekman
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Lars Hanson, Gunnar Sjöberg, Stig Järrel, Hasse Ekman, Irma Christenson, Emil Fjellström
Roles Colonel Ståhlberg
Rating55% 2.773252.773252.773252.773252.77325
After a period of hospitalization, caused by an aircraft accident, second lieutenant Gunnar Bråde returns to his old division. During an exercise a bomb hits his planes propeller and he is forced to jump out with a parachute over the target area. This is not observed by all pilots, who continues to drop their bombs...
The Informer, 1h23
Directed by Arthur Robison
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward, Carl Harbord, Dennis Wyndham, Janice Adair
Roles Gypo Nolan
Rating70% 3.5161753.5161753.5161753.5161753.516175
Durant la guerre d'indépendance irlandaise (1922), un détachement de l'Armée républicaine irlandaise (« Le parti » dans le film) est attaqué par une milice d'opposants. Echange de coups de feu, au cours duquel Francis McPhillip tue par mégarde le chef de la police britannique. Callaghan, le chef du détachement, lui ordonne de se cacher aussitôt dans les collines, puis de fuir en Amérique grâce à l'argent qu'il lui remet. Mais Francis commet l'erreur de vouloir faire d'abord ses adieux à son amie Katie, autour de laquelle tourne Gypso Nolan, un proscrit de l'IRA...
The Divine Woman, 1h20
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman, Polly Moran, Dorothy Cumming, John Mack Brown
Roles Lucien
Rating69% 3.4860053.4860053.4860053.4860053.486005
Marianne (Greta Garbo) is a poor French country girl who goes to Paris in the 1860s to seek her fortune as an actress. As she rises to success in the theatre, she must choose between the romantic attentions of two men. The first is Lucien (Lars Hanson), a poor but passionate young soldier who deserts the army to be with Marianne and goes to jail after stealing a dress to give her. Her other suitor is Henry Legrand (Lowell Sherman), a wealthy middle-aged Paris producer who offers her fame and fortune.
The Wind
The Wind (1928)
, 1h35
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle, William Orlamond
Roles Lige
Rating79% 3.9941753.9941753.9941753.9941753.994175
An impoverished young woman named Letty (Lillian Gish) travels west by train from Virginia to live at her cousin Beverly's isolated ranch in Sweet Water. On the way, she is bothered by the constantly blowing wind. Fellow passenger and cattle buyer Wirt Roddy (Montagu Love) makes her acquaintance and tells her the wind usually drives women crazy.
Homecoming
Homecoming (1928)
, 1h18
Directed by Joe May
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Lars Hanson, Gustav Fröhlich, Dita Parlo, Theodor Loos
Roles Richard
Rating68% 3.4225853.4225853.4225853.4225853.422585
Richard and Karl are German prisoners of war in Siberia. Since escape is almost impossible, they are unguarded and live an almost idyllic existence running a ferry. Richard misses his wife Anna greatly; he literally counts the days since he's seen her and tells Karl about her and their home in detail. When he decides to escape, Karl comes with him. While crossing a desert Richard collapses. He asks Karl to go on without him, but Karl refuses to leave his friend and carries him. But when Karl leaves to get water, Richard is recaptured and sent to work in a lead mine.
The Scarlet Letter, 1h55
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, Marcelle Corday, Joyce Coad
Roles Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Rating75% 3.7912253.7912253.7912253.7912253.791225
Un village de la Nouvelle-Angleterre en 1645. Ses très puritains habitants se plaignent du comportement "choquant" d'Hester Prynne auprès du révérend Dimmesdale. Celui-ci est attiré par la jeune femme et ils ont une liaison passionnée, vite frappée du sceau de l'infamie, d'autant plus qu'un enfant naît de cette union...
Buttons
Buttons (1927)
, 1h10
Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jackie Coogan, Lars Hanson, Gertrude Olmstead, Paul Hurst, Roy D'Arcy, Polly Moran
Roles Captain Travers

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Flesh and the Devil, 1h52
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Philippe De Lacy, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, William Orlamond
Roles Ulrich von Eltz
Rating75% 3.7960953.7960953.7960953.7960953.796095
The film is a romantic melodrama about two childhood friends who grow up to be soldiers in Germany. One of the friends, Leo (Gilbert), becomes infatuated with Felicitas (Garbo), the wife of a powerful count (a marriage about which Felicitas neglects to inform Leo). The count calls for a duel of honor with Leo, but insists that it be done under the false pretense that the quarrel was due to angry words exchanged between the two at a card game in order to protect the count's reputation. Leo kills the count in the duel, but then is punished by the military, being sent away to Africa for five years.
The Saga of Gosta Berling, 3h3
Directed by Mauritz Stiller
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lars Hanson, Greta Garbo, Gerda Lundequist, Karin Swanström, Jenny Hasselquist, Ellen Hartman
Roles Gösta Berling
Rating69% 3.4915853.4915853.4915853.4915853.491585
The priest Gosta Berling gets fired because of his inappropriate life style. He entertains a wealthy lady who in return supports him. Following a variety of occurrences he teams up with former duchess Dohna. Together they start over.
Erotikon
Erotikon (1920)
, 1h46
Directed by Mauritz Stiller
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Lars Hanson, Vilhelm Bryde, Stina Berg, Fridolf Rhudin
Roles Preben Wells
Rating63% 3.1914453.1914453.1914453.1914453.191445
Trois hommes et deux femmes badinent avec l'amour…