Allan Edwall
Johan Allan Edwall was a Swedish stage and screen actor, singer, writer and director. He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's Acting School in 1952.
Growing up in the landscape of Jämtland, Edwall spent some time working on a ship before he arrived in Stockholm in the 1940s, just barely making a living as a writer, painter and poet before he was admitted to the Royal Dramatic Theater's acting school in 1949. After graduation he worked at the theater in the 1950s and 1960s but he was mainly a jack-of-all-trades, appearing on the stage, in movies as well as recording and publishing his own songs.
He is remembered for a string of queer roles, such as Emil's father in the Emil of Lönneberga films, the cheerful vagabond in the Rasmus and the vagabond movie, the dying father in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander as well as Carlsson in the TV adaptation of Strindberg's Hemsöborna.
In the later part of his life he owned his own theater, Brunnsgatan 4, in Stockholm. Biography by Mattias Thuresson.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.772 |
| Birthday | 1924-08-25 |
| Place of Birth | Rödön, Jämtlands län, Sweden |
| Also Known As | Аллан Эдвалль, |
1984
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
6.9/174
Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, bra...
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Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
1978
Bröllopsfesten
0/0
A story about Frida, Jonas and their wedding in Småland.
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Bröllopsfesten
1980
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
0/0
Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.
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Midsommardröm i fattighuset
1981
Rasmus and the Vagabond
6.3/30
9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. O...
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Rasmus and the Vagabond
1982
Fanny and Alexander
7.8/784
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies...
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Fanny and Alexander
1977
The Brothers Lionheart
6.747/95
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyr...
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The Brothers Lionheart
1989
Doktor Glas
0/0
A one man show based on Hjalmar Söderberg's book about Doctor Glas and his dilemma with his patient.
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Doktor Glas
1986
The Sacrifice
7.7/530
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
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The Sacrifice
1960
The Virgin Spring
7.8/617
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles...
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The Virgin Spring
1971
Emil of Lonneberga
6.7/82
Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually...
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Emil of Lonneberga
1972
New Mischief by Emil
6.8/65
Emil's reputation for being a troublemaker makes the Svensson family's neighbours take up a collection for sending the boy off to America. But even if...
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New Mischief by Emil
1973
Emil and the Piglet
6.8/71
Nursing a piglet back to life because it's the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.
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Emil and the Piglet
1980
Madicken of June Hill
5.8/25
A second movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about two sisters and their adventures in 1910s Sweden.
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Madicken of June Hill
1966
Here Is Your Life
7.1/25
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
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Here Is Your Life
1979
You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
6.1/29
Madicken is a Swedish girl from the upper level family, growing up during the time of first world war which did not include Sweden. She lives happily...
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You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
1971
The Emigrants
7.5/112
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social...
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The Emigrants
1963
Winter Light
7.888/450
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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Winter Light
1981
The Rooster
5.4/22
In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with s...
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The Rooster
1972
The New Land
7.7/93
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war,...
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The New Land
1960
The Devil's Eye
7.208/101
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year ol...
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The Devil's Eye
1989
During the Journey to Melonia
0/0
Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia
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During the Journey to Melonia
1989
Voyage to Melonia
6.8/31
When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "al...
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Voyage to Melonia
1954
Dance on Roses
5/1
Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Brom...
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Dance on Roses
1965
Gustav Vasa
0/0
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
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Gustav Vasa
1966
Sadist
5.7/3
The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is liv...
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Sadist
1987
Pirates of the Lake
6.2/5
It is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing boat to take a boat trip so they steal it. They plan to...
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Pirates of the Lake
1964
All These Women
6.1/53
Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic's house for a few days. He does...
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All These Women
1983
P & B
6/8
Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to...
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P & B
1967
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
5/2
People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz Hop...
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Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
1991
Duo jag
0/0
Gösta Ekman and Kent Andersson play two men, living together for a long time. One a small, skinny and unknown poet - the other a large, famous and cel...
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Duo jag
1984
Åke and His World
6.1/13
Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose point of view th...
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Åke and His World
1973
Who Loves Yngve Frej
6.9/8
A tragicomic story about rural extinction and the meeting between the local shoemaker Gustafsson and Pettersson from Stockholm.
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Who Loves Yngve Frej
1969
The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
6/2
A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club who baths together every Sunday. He is uninterest...
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The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
1976
Elvis! Elvis!
4.8/5
The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.
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Elvis! Elvis!
1983
Limpan
7/3
Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the ho...
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Limpan
1980
To Be a Millionaire
5.3/9
The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors...
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To Be a Millionaire
1981
SOPOR
5.5/16
One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group ca...
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SOPOR
1960
On a Bench in a Park
4.4/7
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they ge...
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On a Bench in a Park
1956
Girls Without Rooms
5/2
Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a...
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Girls Without Rooms
1980
Sverige åt svenskarna
2.7/3
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patient...
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Sverige åt svenskarna
1962
Stolarna
0/0
An Old Man and Old Woman frantically prepare chairs for a series of invisible guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery.
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Stolarna
1953
Resan till dej
5/1
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
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Resan till dej
1990
Evert Taube 100 år
0/0
Jubilee special celebrating Evert Taube's 100th birthday with performances and interviews with friends and family.
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Evert Taube 100 år
1984
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
6.833/18
The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length docu...
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
1974
Kulstötaren
0/0
When Nisse's son breaks his arm, Johan has to pull into the club team in shot put. In a competition he hits 32.47 meters, a world record. Only two rem...
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Kulstötaren
1969
We Are All Demons
5.5/4
A veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches the pas...
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We Are All Demons
1963
A Dream Play
7.5/6
"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three tim...
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A Dream Play
1995
Stjärnbilder
0/0
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film h...
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Stjärnbilder
1996
Bättre utan hund
8/1
On the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by Franz Kafka.
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Bättre utan hund
1974
Nattens konung
0/0
An old fisherman is feeling lonely and begins to long for death.
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Nattens konung
1969
Eriksson
0/0
Eriksson is a divorced engineer without intellectual interests. He lives alone in a friendly, rundown tenement where the neighbors' intimate relations...
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Eriksson
1965
Interlude in the Marshland
7.4/7
It's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere in...
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Interlude in the Marshland
1983
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
0/0
Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since t...
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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
1980
Filmen om Anton Nilson. Till arbetarklassens barn
0/0
Anton Nilson is known as one of the Amalthea men, three young socialists who in 1908, in one of the labor conflicts that crippled Malmö, carried out a...
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Filmen om Anton Nilson. Till arbetarklassens barn
1983
The School of Wives
7.2/5
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans h...
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The School of Wives
1977
Games of Love and Loneliness
4/3
This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. wh...
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Games of Love and Loneliness
1959
Blackjackets
6/6
Young Greasers, known as Raggare in Sweden, gather at a café outside Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser and kidnaps his girlfriend Bibban, when...
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Blackjackets
1961
The Brig Three Lilies
6.7/3
On the coast of Sweden in 1888, a 12-year-old orphan finds adventure and new hope that his missing father survived a shipwreck years before.
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The Brig Three Lilies
1965
The Devil's Instrument
7/1
A jazz bassist who surveys a beautiful girl at a gig decides to try to get her home. But the devil is getting into the game too.
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The Devil's Instrument
1960
The Die Is Cast
6/5
A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspe...
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The Die Is Cast
1957
Ingen morgondag
0/0
It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place....
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Ingen morgondag
1963
Topaze
0/0
A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally lea...
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Topaze
1962
Kort är sommaren
0/0
Lieutenant Glahn arrives in a small village in northern Norway. He wants to live in peace in the company of his dog. The young Edvarda stirs emotions...
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Kort är sommaren
1977
Mondays with Fanny
0/0
Robert works at a warehouse and as a cinema usher and lives in a strained marriage. Every monday, he visits his ill father at the hospital. There he m...
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Mondays with Fanny
1970
Good-Bye Nana
0/0
A film that questions the right of parents to force their children into the adult world's rational behavior. A 6-year-old revolt by going to a lawyer...
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Good-Bye Nana
1955
Vildfåglar
0/0
"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience...
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Vildfåglar
1960
Av hjärtans lust
0/0
The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. The baron finds out that an unknown person is tryin...
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Av hjärtans lust
1961
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
5.3/3
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
1954
Tattarblod
0/0
David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a noto...
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Tattarblod
1965
The Devotion
0/0
A punctuation during a theater rehearsal between actor and director.
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The Devotion
1958
The Phantom Carriage
5.7/6
The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's...
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The Phantom Carriage
1972
The Ghost Sonata
9/1
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. H...
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The Ghost Sonata
1988
Lighting
0/0
A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film "The Sacrifice."
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Lighting
1965
The Banquet Room
5/1
A young girl is a confidante to four men who regularly visit her in her apartment.
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The Banquet Room
1960
The Wedding Day
0/0
Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.
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The Wedding Day
1965
My Home Is Copacabana
6.6/7
Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by shini...
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My Home Is Copacabana
1965
4 x 4
7.2/5
Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
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4 x 4
1961
Mr. Ernest
0/0
Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.
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Mr. Ernest
1977
Hålet
0/0
Animated film about a man interested in holes.
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