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 as Emil's short-tempered father Anton Svensson 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). [citation needed]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!"
Known for
Duo jag
The old boyfriend
The School of Wives
Arnolphe
SOPOR
Thorbjörn Fälldin
The Phantom Carriage
Tramp
Tattarblod
Natan
Topaze
Albert Topaze
The Rooster
Thorsson
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
Limpan
Sture Charles 'Limpan' Lindberg
Sverige åt svenskarna
Doktor Karl Otto
Winter Light
Algot Frövik
The Devil's Eye
The Ear Demon
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
Wilhelmsson
Blackjackets
Narrator (voice)
Madicken of June Hill
Herr Nilsson
My Home Is Copacabana
Doktor Glas
Doktor Glas
Misantropen
Acaste
Bröllopsfesten
Jonas
The Emigrants
Danjel
Kort är sommaren
The doctor
Nattens konung
Kristofer
Mr. Ernest
Doktor Chasuble
Girls Without Rooms
Ingen morgondag
The poet
Good-Bye Nana
Lindbaum
Wild Birds
Fiorentino
The Banquet Room
läkaren
Eriksson
Eriksson - Verkstadsarbetare
The Brig Three Lilies
Simon Toking
Evert Taube 100 år
Self
A Dream Play
Axel
The Journey to Melonia
Prospero (voice)
Emil i Lönneberga
Anton Svensson
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
The vagrant
The Die Is Cast
Dag Serén
Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
Skalle-Per
Stolarna
Old man
Sadist
Falk
Games of Love and Loneliness
Markel
During the Journey to Melonia
(Prospero)
Av hjärtans lust
Servant
The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
Jacob
Bättre utan hund
Blumfeld
The New Land
Danjel
Rasmus and the Vagabond
Paradis-Oskar
I morgon var en dröm
Markus
Fanny and Alexander
Oscar Ekdahl
The Devil's Instrument
narrator
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Blind-Jonas
Interlude in the Marshland
Lineman
Pirates of the Lake
Frans i Flinta
The Wedding Day
Vicar
Emil of Lönneberga
Anton Svensson
Who Loves Yngve Frej
Gustafsson
Emil and the Piglet
Anton Svensson
Fanny and Alexander
Oscar Ekdahl
The Virgin Spring
Beggar
The Sacrifice
Otto
Hålet
Narrator (voice)
New Mischief by Emil
Anton Svensson
Madicken
herr Nilsson
The Brothers Lionheart
Mattias
4 x 4
The Red Room
Olle Montanus
Ronja Rövardotter
Skalle-Per
Astrid Lindgrens älskade filmer
Self (archive footage)
Hemsöborna
Carlsson
Svenska noveller
Jonas
P & B
Josef "Stavros" Bendel
Engeln
Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrecht
Here Is Your Life
August
You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
Herr Nilsson
All These Women
Jillker
Åke and His World
Principal Godeman
The Nervous Man
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Self
To Be a Millionaire
Allan Persson
The Devotion
Director
Lighting
Self
On a Bench in a Park
Street character
Resan till dej
Bendix' composer
Elvis! Elvis!
Elvis' Grandfather
The Ghost Sonata
Gubben
We Are All Demons
Tor
Gustav Vasa
Engelbrekt
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Dance on Roses
Olsson, journalist
Kulstötaren
Johan