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!"

Fanny and Alexander

7.8

The Virgin Spring

7.8

The Sacrifice

7.7

Winter Light

7.9

Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

6.9

Fanny and Alexander

8.3

The Emigrants

7.5

The Devil's Eye

7.2

The Brothers Lionheart

6.7

The New Land

7.7

Emil of Lonneberga

6.7

Emil and the Piglet

6.8

New Mischief by Emil

6.8

All These Women

6.1

Voyage to Melonia

6.8

Rasmus and the Vagabond

6.3

You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken

6.1

Emil of Lönneberga

7.5

Madicken of June Hill

5.8

Here Is Your Life

7.1

The Rooster

5.4

The Making of Fanny and Alexander

6.8

Madicken

6.5

SOPOR

5.5

Åke and His World

6.1

Ronja Rövardotter

6.8

To Be a Millionaire

5.3

P & B

6.0

Who Loves Yngve Frej

6.9

On a Bench in a Park

4.4

Interlude in the Marshland

7.4

My Home Is Copacabana

6.6

A Dream Play

7.5

Blackjackets

6.0

The Phantom Carriage

5.7

Pirates of the Lake

6.2

Elvis! Elvis!

4.8

The School of Wives

7.2

The Die Is Cast

6.0

4 x 4

7.2

We Are All Demons

5.5

Hemsöborna

7.8

Sadist

5.7

Limpan

7.0

Sverige åt svenskarna

2.7

Games of Love and Loneliness

4.0

The Brig Three Lilies

6.7

Ljuvlig är sommarnatten

5.3

The Red Room

7.0

Mördaren - en helt vanlig person

5.0

The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing

6.0

Girls Without Rooms

5.0

Dance on Roses

5.0

Resan till dej

5.0

Bättre utan hund

8.0

The Devil's Instrument

7.0

The Ghost Sonata

9.0

The Banquet Room

5.0

Engeln

8.0

Bröllopsfesten

0.0

Midsommardröm i fattighuset

0.0

Doktor Glas

0.0

During the Journey to Melonia

0.0

Gustav Vasa

0.0

Duo jag

0.0

Stolarna

0.0

Evert Taube 100 år

0.0

Kulstötaren

0.0

Stjärnbilder

0.0

Nattens konung

0.0

Eriksson

0.0

Alf Sjöberg - mästaren

0.0

Filmen om Anton Nilson. Till arbetarklassens barn

0.0

Ingen morgondag

0.0

Topaze

0.0

Kort är sommaren

0.0

Mondays with Fanny

0.0

Good-Bye Nana

0.0

Vildfåglar

0.0

Av hjärtans lust

0.0

Tattarblod

0.0

The Devotion

0.0

Lighting

0.0

The Wedding Day

0.0

Mr. Ernest

0.0

Hålet

0.0

Svenska noveller

0.0