Allan Edwall
Actor, film director
Died when: 72 years 166 days (869 months)Star Sign: Virgo
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 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).
He was the father of photographer and stage director, actor and musician (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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