Hasse Ekman
Born: 1915-09-10 in Stockholm, Sweden
Died: 2004-02-15
Known For: Directing
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hasse Ekman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1993
- Minns ni? as (archive footage)
- Meeting with Hasse
1987
- Gösta Ekman - En levande legend as Self
1981
- The Guldbagge Awards as Self - Creative Achievement Award winner
1972
- KaRamellodier ... (Director)
1969
- De sista entusiasterna ... (Director)
- Cabarét Canalhumorn ... (Director)
1964
- The Marriage Wrestler ... (Director)
1963
- My Love Is Like a Rose ... (Director)
1960
- On a Bench in a Park as Stig Brender
- Decimals of Love as Karl Krister 'Charlie' Gedelius
1959
- Miss Chic as Buster Carell
- Swinging at the Castle ... (Writer)
- Heaven and Pancakes as Willy Lorens
1958
- Jazz Boy as Teddy Anker
- The Great Amateur as Max Wallby
- You Are My Adventure ... (Writer)
1957
- Summer Place Wanted ... (Director)
- The Halo Is Slipping as Per-Axel Dahlander
1956
- Private Entrance as Sture Falk
- The Staffan Stolle Story as Klad Traenger
- Seventh Heaven as Willy Lorens
1954
- The Yellow Squadron as Captain Birger Wreting
- Gabrielle as Kjell Rodin
- I rök och dans as Well dressed man in haystack
1953
- Sawdust and Tinsel as Frans
- The Glass Mountain as Stellan Sylvester
- We Three Debutantes
- Resan till dej ... (Writer)
1952
- The Firebird ... (Director)
1951
- The Nuthouse as Hans Hasseson Ekman / Fänrik Bråde / Kim (voice)
1950
- Jack of Hearts as Lt. Anders Canitz
- The White Cat ... (Director)
- Girl with Hyacinths ... (Director)
- Kyssen på kryssen ... (Writer)
1949
- Prison as Martin Grande
- Thirst as Dr. Rosengren
- The Girl from the Third Row as Sture Anker
- Terras fönster 2
1948
- The Banquet as Hugo Stenbrott
- Each to His Own Way as Tage Sundell
- Little Martin Returns as Second Lieutenant Svensson
1947
- One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer as Bertil
1946
- While the Door Was Locked as Torsten "Totte" von Breda
- Interlude as Vilhelm Canitz
- Meeting in the Night as Åke
- Den gamla goda tiden
- Love Goes Up and Down ... (Writer)
1945
- Skådetennis as Himself
- The Royal Rabble as Tommy Anker
- Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It as Kurre
- Wandering with the Moon as Ernst Törsleff
1944
- His Excellency ... (Director)
- A Profession for Men ... (Director)
- Stopp! Tänk på något annat
- Jag är eld och luft as Tore Ekström, Actor
- A Day Will Dawn as Rutger von Brewitz
- Like Everyone Else ... (Producer)
1943
- Örlogsmän ... (Writer)
- The Sixth Shot as Man at the train platform
- Changing Trains as Joakim Lundell
- Life and Death as Kirre Granlund
1942
- Happiness Is on Its Way as Voice on the Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- Flames in the Dark as Per Sahlén
1941
- The Ghost Reporter ... (Writer)
- The First Squadron as Franconian Bråde
- Magistrarna på sommarlov ... (Writer)
- Life Goes On as Ludvig Bourg
1940
- June Night as Willy Wilson
- 'Swing It' Teacher ... (Writer)
- Karl för sin hatt ... (Writer)
- With You in My Arms ... (Director)
- Hjältar i gult och blått ... (Writer)
1939
- Cadets Together as Bertil Winge
- Emelie Högqvist ... (Assistant Director)
1936
- Intermezzo as Åke Brandt