Biography
Eric Göran Graffman (12 February 1931 – November 2014) was a Swedish actor and film director from Gothenburg). He was the father of the actor Per Graffman, the director Emil Graffman and Mats Graffman.
Graffman worked as actor at Gothenburg City Theatre since the 1950s, and, in 1967, he started working at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. He began directing films in the 1970s. Göran Graffman was the son of the Court of Appeal lawyer Gösta Graffman and Gunhild Josephson. After graduating in Sigtuna in 1950, he attended the Gothenburg City Theatre's student school 1951–1954. Graffman has been active as an actor at the Gothenburg City Theater since the early 1950s and has since worked at the Stockholm City Theatre, the TV Theater and the Radio Theater, among others. In 1967 he came to Dramaten, where he then largely stayed. He worked there in several acclaimed productions directed by Per Verner-Carlsson, such as the special experiment Pelikanenx2 on radio and stage in 1968, as Gustav III in Kastrater (1977) and in Seneca's death (1982), both by Sven Delblanc. He has worked with directors such as Ingmar Bergman, Alf Sjöberg and Canadian Robert Lepage and in works by Erland Josephson, as the lead role in the world premiere of A Talking Silence (1984).
Since the 1970s he has also worked as a director, for example of Lars Norén's Night is the Mother of the Day (1983), the Swedish premiere of Bernard-Marie Koltès The Negro and the Dog's Fight (1986), P.O. Enquist's I lodjurets timma (1988), Hjalmar Bergman's Swedenhielms (1990) and Döden och flickan (1992). In 1981, he directed August Strindberg's The Father (as well as a joint project with famous Swedish actors) at the Circle in the Square theater on Broadway in New York. For television, he has directed a number of productions, including Sławomir Mrożek's Tango (1972), the popular family series Den vita stenen (1973), Strindberg's Storm (1988) and the film Long Weekend (1992). On film, he has directed three films about Astrid Lindgren's Madicken (1979-80), including with his wife Monica Nordquist in the recurring role as the mother.
Filmography
all 21
Movies 15
TV Shows 6
Director 5
Producer 1
Wallander 18 - The Cellist (2009)
Wallander (2005)
The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)
Major and Minor Miracles (1999)
Frieriet (1995)
Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet (1993)
Apelsinmannen (1990)
Storm (1988)
Stoft och skugga (1988)
Rasmus and the Vagabond (1981)
Madicken of June Hill (1980)
You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken (1979)
Madicken (1979)
Bröllopet (1978)
Den vita stenen (1973)
Horoskopet (1971)
You're Lying! (1969)
Adam in Sweden (1966)
All These Women (1964)
Sällskapslek (1963)
Siska (1962)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1931-02-12
Deathday2014-11-18 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceVasa parish, Sweden
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ChildrenMats Graffman, Emil Graffman, Per Graffman
FatherGösta Graffman
MotherGunhild Josephson
SiblingsAnita Graffman, Sten Graffman, Vera Bonnier
CitizenshipsSweden
Also Known AsEric Göran Graffman
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