Hasse Ekman

Directing Sep 10, 1915 Feb 15, 2004 (aged 89) Stockholm, Sweden

Hasse Ekman (10 September 1915 – 15 February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.

Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman (and aside from him) and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950. Much influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films. His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths), a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment.

Hasse Ekman is part of the prominent "Ekman acting family" in Sweden: He was the son of Swedish star actor Gösta Ekman (senior) and father of actor Gösta Ekman (junior), actor Stefan Ekman and stage/film director Mikael Ekman. Also grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman.

As an actor Ekman also came to act in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in a three of early Ingmar Bergman-films (Prison, Thirst and Sawdust and Tinsel). He also played opposite his famous father in Intermezzo; the original Swedish 1936 film starring Ingrid Bergman in the female lead. Overall he made 50 roles in Swedish films.

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58 Acting Credits

62 Crew Credits

Hasse Ekman

Acting

Sawdust and Tinsel

Thirst

Prison

Intermezzo

June Night

The Banquet

While the Door Was Locked

The Staffan Stolle Story

Miss Chic

The Yellow Squadron

The Girl from the Third Row

Little Martin Returns

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

On a Bench in a Park

Seventh Heaven

Private Entrance

The Royal Rabble

A Day Will Dawn

The Halo Is Slipping

Gabrielle

The First Squadron

The Nuthouse

Meeting in the Night

Jazz Boy

Crew

Girl with Hyacinths