Eva Dahlbeck

Eva Dahlbeck
Eva Elisabet Dahlbeck (8 March 1920 – 8 February 2008) was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Brink of Life (1958). Dahlbeck retired from acting in 1970 and became an author.
Biography
Eva Dahlbeck was born in Saltsjö-Duvnäs near Stockholm. She attended the prestigious Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1941 to 1944, and acted on the Theatre's stage from 1944 to 1964. She made her film debut in the role of Botilla in Ride Tonight! (Rid i natt!, 1942).
Among her roles in Swedish films were the shrewd celebrity reporter Vivi in Love Goes Up and Down (Kärlek och störtlopp, 1946), the working-class mother Rya-Rya in the drama Only a Mother (Bara en mor, 1949); Mrs. Larsson, the warmhearted mother of seven in the popular children's film Kastrullresan (1950), and the young primary school teacher in Gustaf Molander's Trots (1952), a film with a screenplay by Vilgot Sjöman. In the mid-1950s Dahlbeck was one of Sweden's most popular and successful actresses. She became internationally known for her strong female leads in a number of Ingmar Bergman's films, in particular his comedies Secrets of Women (1952), A Lesson in Love (1954) and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955). In 1965 she won the award for Best Actress at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards for her role in the film The Cats (Kattorna, 1965).
In the 1960s, Dahlbeck moved away from acting as she started to write. She retired from the stage in 1964 and made her final appearance on screen in the Danish film Tintomara (1970). She published several novels and poems in her native Sweden, and wrote the screenplay for Arne Mattsson's dark film Yngsjömordet (The Yngsjö murder) in 1966.
Dahlbeck married Sven Lampell, an air force officer, in 1944. The couple had two children. She lived out the last years of her life in Hässelby Villastad, Stockholm, where she died at age 87.
Awards
1961 - Eugene O'Neill Award for her stage work.
Filmography
Only a Woman (1941) as Guest at the masquerade
The Talk of the Town (1941) as Dancing woman
Ride Tonight! (1942) as Botilla
Count Only the Happy Moments (1944) as Hedvig
Oss tjuvar emellan eller En burk ananas (1945) as Astrid
Black Roses (1945) as Per Bergström's wife
The Serious Game (1945) as Dagmar Randel
Brita in the Merchant's House (1946) as Brita
Love Goes Up and Down (1946) as Vivi Boström
Meeting in the Night (1946) as Marit
The Key and the Ring (1947) as Eva Berg
Two Women (1947) as Sonja Bergman
The People of Simlang Valley (1947) as Ingrid Folkesson
Each to His Own Way (1948) as Karin Brofeldt
Lars Hård (1948) as Inga
Girl from the Mountain Village (1948) as Isa
Eva (1948) as Susanne
Woman in White (1949) as Solveig Rygård
Only a Mother (1949) as Maria, aka Rya-Rya
Fiancée for Hire (1950) as Margit Berg
Jack of Hearts (1950) as Gun Lovén
The Saucepan Journey (1950) as Mamma Larsson
In the Arms of the Sea (1951) as Lucie
Sköna Helena (1951) as Helena
Carson City (1952) as Gun
U-Boat 39 (1952) as Maria Friberg
Defiance (1952) as Teacher
Secrets of Women (1952) as Karin
Barabbas (1953) as The Mother
The Shadow (1953) as Vivianne
The Village (1953) as Wanda Piwonska
House of Women (1953) as Isa
The Chieftain of Göinge (1953) as Kristina Ulfstand
Foreign Intrigue (1953-1955, TV Series) as Barbara Vale / Nina Richter / Hilda / Nurse
A Lesson in Love (1954) as Marianne Erneman
Voyage in the Night (1955) as Birgitta Lundberg
Dreams (1955) as Susanne
Paradise (1955) as Ulla Karlsson
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) as Desiree Armfeldt
Tarps Elin (1956) as Elin Tarp
Last Pair Out (1956) as Susanna Dahlin
Encounters in the Twilight (1957) as Irma Sköld
Summer Place Wanted (1957) as Ingeborg Dahlström
Brink of Life (1958) as Stina Andersson
A Matter of Morals (1960) as Eva Walderman
Kärlekens decimaler (1960) as Astrid
Tre önskningar (1960) as Adèle Linton
Ticket to Paradise (1962) as Rita Carol
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) as Ingrid Erickson
All These Women (1964) as Adelaide
Loving Couples (1964) as Marta Alleus
Morianna (1965) as Anna Vade
The Cats (1965) as Michele Quellec
Woman of Darkness (1966) as Screenwriter
Hagbard and Signe (1967) as The Queen
People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart (1967) as Devah Sørensen
Markurells i Wadköping (1968-1969,TV Mini-Series) as Fru Markurell
A Day at the Beach (1970) as Cafe Proprietress
Tintomara (1970) as Baroness (final film role)
Novels
1964: Hem till kaos ("Home To Chaos")
1965: Sista spegeln: preludier ("The Last Mirror: Preludes")
1966: Den sjunde natten: detaljer (The Seventh Night: Details")
1967: Domen ("The Verdict")
1972: Med seende ögon ("With Eyes That See")
1974: Hjärtslagen ("The Heartbeats")
1976: Saknadens dal
1979: Maktspråket ("The Language of Power")
1980: I våra tomma rum ("In Our Empty Rooms")
1988: Serveto och den eviga elden ("Serveto and the Eternal Flame")
1991: Vapenhandlarens död: ett reportage från insidan ("The Armsdealer's Death: An Inside Story")
1996: På kärlekens villkor: en vandring i ett laglöst land
1999: Sökarljus ("Searching Lights")
References
Notes
Svenskfilmdatabas.se (Swedish Film Database)
Further reading
External links
1920 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Swedish novelists
20th-century Swedish women writers
Swedish film actresses
Swedish women novelists
Best Actress Guldbagge Award winners
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
Eugene O'Neill Award winners