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.
Filmography
all 88
Movies 78
TV Shows 10
Director 4
self 4
Writer 1
Narrator 1
Voice 1
Astrid Lindgrens jul (1999)
Bättre Utan Hund (1996)
Stjärnbilder (1995)
Duo jag (1991)
Evert Taube 100 år (1990)
Doktor Glas (1989)
Voyage to Melonia (1989)
During the Journey to Melonia (1989)
Lighting (1988)
Pirates of the Lake (1987)
Ronja Rövardotter (1986)
Den nervöse mannen (1986)
Rasmus and the Vagabond (1986)
The Sacrifice (1986)
The Brothers Lionheart (1985)
Fanny and Alexander (1984)
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (1984)
Åke and His World (1984)
The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1984)
The School of Wives (1983)
P & B (1983)
Limpan (1983)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Rasmus and the Vagabond (1981)
The Rooster (1981)
SOPOR (1981)
Midsommardröm i fattighuset (1980)
Madicken of June Hill (1980)
Sverige åt svenskarna (1980)
To Be a Millionaire (1980)
You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken (1979)
Madicken (1979)
Bröllopsfesten (1978)
Svenska noveller (1978)
The Brothers Lionheart (1977)
Mondays with Fanny (1977)
Games of Love and Loneliness (1977)
Elvis! Elvis! (1976)
Nisse och Greta (1975)
Emil of Lönneberga (1975)
Engeln (1974)
Kulstötaren (1974)
Nattens konung (1974)
Emil and the Piglet (1973)
Who Loves Yngve Frej (1973)
The Ghost Sonata (1972)
New Mischief by Emil (1972)
The New Land (1972)
Emil of Lonneberga (1971)
The Emigrants (1971)
Good-Bye Nana (1970)
Röda rummet (1970)
We Are All Demons (1969)
The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing (1969)
Eriksson (1969)
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person (1967)
Here Is Your Life (1966)
Sadist (1966)
Hemsöborna (1966)
The Devil's Instrument (1965)
The Devotion (1965)
Gustav Vasa (1965)
The Banquet Room (1965)
My Home Is Copacabana (1965)
4 x 4 (1965)
Interlude in the Marshland (1965)
All These Women (1964)
A Dream Play (1963)
Topaze (1963)
Winter Light (1963)
Kort är sommaren (1962)
Stolarna (1962)
The Brig Three Lilies (1961)
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten (1961)
On a Bench in a Park (1960)
The Devil's Eye (1960)
The Wedding Day (1960)
Av hjärtans lust (1960)
The Die Is Cast (1960)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Blackjackets (1959)
The Phantom Carriage (1958)
Ingen morgondag (1957)
Girls Without Rooms (1956)
Vildfåglar (1955)
Dance on Roses (1954)
Tattarblod (1954)
Resan till dej (1953)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1924-08-25
Deathday1997-02-07 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceRödön church parish, Sweden
ChildrenMåns Edwall
CitizenshipsSweden
Also Known AsАллан Эдвалль
AwardsHonorary doctorate of Umeå University, Swedish Academy's Theatre Award, Piraten award, Litteris et Artibus, Eugene O'Neill Award
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