Allan Edwall
Birthday: 1924-08-25 | Place of Birth: Rödön, Jämtlands län, SwedenJohan 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Blumfeld
as Self
as (Prospero)
as Doktor Glas
as Prospero (voice)
as Self
as Otto
as Skalle-Per
as Oscar Ekdahl
as Skalle-Per
as Arnolphe
as Josef "Stavros" Bendel
as Oscar Ekdahl
as Sture Charles 'Limpan' Lindberg
as Paradis-Oskar
as Thorbjörn Fälldin
as Thorsson
as Doktor Karl Otto
as Herr Nilsson
as Herr Nilsson
as herr Nilsson
as Markel
as Mattias
as Narrator (voice)
as Elvis' Grandfather
as Anton Svensson
