Allan Edwall

Allan Edwall
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 Mattias Edwall and stage director, actor and musician Måns Edwall (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!"
Partial filmography
Resan till dej (1953) - Composer (uncredited)
Our Father and the Gypsy (1954) - Natan
Dans på rosor (1954) - Olsson, journalist (uncredited)
Wild Birds (1955) - Fiorentino
Girls Without Rooms (1956) - Ulla's Husband (uncredited)
No Tomorrow (1957) - Poet
Körkarlen (1958) - Tramp
Raggare! (1959) - Narrator (voice)
The Virgin Spring (1960) - Beggar
The Die Is Cast (1960) - Dag Serén
Heart's Desire (1960) - Servant
The Wedding Day (1960) - Vicar
The Devil's Eye (1960) - The ear demon
On a Bench in a Park (1960) - Man at Restaurant
Lovely Is the Summer Night (1961) - Luffaren
Briggen Tre Liljor (1961) - Simon Toking
Kort är sommaren (1962) - Doctor
Winter Light (1963) - Algot Frövik
All These Women (1964) - Jillker
4x4 (1965) - Banvakten (segment "Uppehåll i myrlandet")
My Home Is Copacabana (1965) - Narrator (voice)
Festivitetssalongen (1965) - Lund - Doctor
Träfracken (1966) - Falk
Här har du ditt liv (1966) - August
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person (1967) - Wilhelmsson
Människor möts och ljuv musik uppstår i hjärtat (1967) - Narrator (voice)
Eriksson (1969) - Eriksson - Verkstadsarbetare
Bokhandlaren som slutade bada (1969) - Jacob
We Are All Demons (1969) - Tor, den syke matrosen
Ministern (1970) - Lindbaum
The Emigrants (1971) - Danjel
Emil i Lönneberga (1971) - Anton - Emils pappa
The New Land (1972) - Danjel
Nya hyss av Emil i Lönneberga (1972) - Anton - Emils pappa
Emil och griseknoen (1973) - Anton
Elvis! Elvis! (1976) - Elvis' Grandfather
Games of Love and Loneliness (1977) - Markel
Måndagarna med Fanny (1977) - Driver
The Brothers Lionheart (1977) - Mattias
To Be a Millionaire (1980) - Kansliråd Allan Persson
Sverige åt svenskarna (1980) - Doctor Karl Otto
Madicken på Junibacken (1980) - Herr Nilsson
SOPOR (1981) - Thorbjörn Fälldin
Tuppen (1981) - Thorsson, receptionist
Rasmus på luffen (1981) - Oskar
Fanny and Alexander (1982) - Oscar Ekdahl - Ekdahlska huset
Limpan (1983) - Sture Charles 'Limpan' Lindberg
P & B (1983) - Josef 'Stavros' Bendel
Åke and His World (1984) - Principal Godeman
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (1984) - Skalle-Per
The Sacrifice (1986) - Otto
Mälarpirater (1987) - Frans i Flinta
Resan till Melonia (1989) - Prospero (voice)
Discography
1979: Grovdoppa
1981: Färdknäpp
1982: Gnällspik
1982: Ramsor om dom och oss
1984: Vetahuteri
1991: Edwalls blandning
2002: Den lilla bäcken - Allans bästa (posthumous)
2005: Aftonro (posthumous)
2005: Alla Allans visor (posthumous)
2005: Allans allra bästa (posthumous)
Bibliography
Protokoll (1954, novel)
Ljuva läge (1967, novel)
Engeln (1974, novel)
Limpan (1977, novel)
Mellan liv och död (1993, plays)
Notes
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External links
1924 births
1997 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Deaths from cancer in Sweden
Eugene O'Neill Award winners
Swedish theatre directors
Swedish male writers
Swedish composers
Swedish male composers
20th-century Swedish male singers
Best Actor Guldbagge Award winners
20th-century Swedish male actors
20th-century classical musicians
20th-century composers