Allan Edwall

Acting Aug 25, 1924 Feb 7, 1997 (aged 73) Rödön, Jämtlands län, Sweden

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!"

92 Acting Credits

9 Crew Credits

Allan Edwall

Acting

Fanny and Alexander

The Virgin Spring

The Sacrifice

Winter Light

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter

Fanny and Alexander

The Emigrants

The Devil's Eye

The Brothers Lionheart

The New Land

Emil of Lonneberga

Emil and the Piglet

New Mischief by Emil

All These Women

You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken

The Journey to Melonia

Emil of Lönneberga

Rasmus and the Vagabond

Madicken of June Hill

Here Is Your Life

The Rooster

SOPOR

The Making of Fanny and Alexander

Madicken

Crew

Åke and His World

Pirates of the Lake

Limpan

The Nervous Man

Eriksson

Bättre utan hund

Doktor Glas

Nisse och Greta

Nisse och Greta