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Allan Svensson

{{Short description|Swedish actor (1951–2024)}}

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| birth_name = Dan Allan Waldemar Svensson

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|02|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

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| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1977–2024

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Dan Allan Waldemar Svensson (16 February 1951 – 17 November 2024) was a Swedish actor perhaps mostly known for his role as Gustav Svensson in the hit comedy series Svensson, Svensson.{{cite web|url=http://www.varnamo.se/tillvaxtnaringsliv/gottomplats/ambassadorer/allansvensson.4.18ff2710e077ef56080009731.html |title=Allan Svensson – Värnamo kommun |publisher=Varnamo.se |date=9 March 2008 |accessdate=8 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108203043/http://www.varnamo.se/tillvaxtnaringsliv/gottomplats/ambassadorer/allansvensson.4.18ff2710e077ef56080009731.html |archivedate=8 January 2014 |df=dmy-all}} Besides acting in films, television and on stage, Svensson owned and ran the film production company Ridåfall AB.{{cite web |url=http://www.ratsit.se/5565158515-Ridafall_AB |title=Ridĺfall AB i STOCKHOLM – Ratsit |publisher=Ratsit.se |accessdate=8 January 2014 |archive-date=8 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108202717/http://www.ratsit.se/5565158515-Ridafall_AB |url-status=live }}

Life and career

Svensson was born in Stockholm but grew up in Tranemo, Sweden.{{cn|date=November 2024}} At the age of seventeen he moved to Värnamo and started high school studies. At the end of the 1970s, Svensson enrolled for acting studies at Skara Skolscen and then at Teaterhögskolan in Gothenburg.

His first television role was as Erik in Hedebyborna. He has worked as part of the Stockholm stadsteater ensemble, acted in films and on television and also directed.{{cite website |url=http://www.stadsteatern.stockholm.se/medverkande/medverkande.asp?id=00000222 |title=Stockholms Stadsteater |publisher=Stadsteatern.stockholm.se |accessdate=8 January 2014 |archive-date=8 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108202653/http://www.stadsteatern.stockholm.se/medverkande/medverkande.asp?id=00000222 |url-status=live }} The theatre and television roles have varied, from playing Cyrano at Oscarsteatern to playing the everyday stereotypical Swede Gustav Svensson in the SVT comedy show Svensson, Svensson and the role of RF Simpson in the Swedish version of the musical Singing in the Rain at Oscarsteatern.{{cite web |url=http://www.redteatral.net/versiones-musicales-cyrano-4278 |title=Cyrano |publisher=Redteatral.net |accessdate=8 January 2014 |archive-date=8 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108201930/http://www.redteatral.net/versiones-musicales-cyrano-4278 |url-status=usurped}}{{cite web |url=http://www.expressen.se/noje/allan-svensson-det-ju-helt-absurt/ |title=Allan Svensson: Det ju helt absurt |work=Expressen |accessdate=8 January 2014 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024938/http://www.expressen.se/noje/allan-svensson-det-ju-helt-absurt/ |url-status=live}}

During the summer of 2007, Svensson performed on stage comedy shows in Växjö in the play Kuta och Kör where he had the lead role.{{cite web |url=http://www.sydsvenskan.se/jul/allt-hon-vill-ha-ar-en-riktig-jul/ |title=Allt hon vill ha är en riktig jul – Jul – Sydsvenskan-Nyheter Dygnet Runt |work=Sydsvenskan |date=6 February 2012 |accessdate=8 January 2014 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306060853/http://www.sydsvenskan.se/jul/allt-hon-vill-ha-ar-en-riktig-jul/ |url-status=live}} Also in 2007, Svensson played Santa Claus on Julkalendern on SVT. In 2008 he acted in the TV4 miniseries Maria Wern – Främmande fågel alongside Eva Röse.{{cite web|url=http://www.tv4play.se/hyrbutiken/2493127 |title=Maria Wern: Drömmen förde dig vilse – TV4 Play |publisher=Tv4play.se |accessdate=8 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222033759/http://www.tv4play.se/hyrbutiken/2493127 |archivedate=22 December 2013}}

In November 2013, Svensson revealed that he was to play Kapten Klänning more known as Göran Lindberg a former police chief who was imprisoned in 2010 for sexually abusing a number of women. The play Fallet Kapten Klänning was performed at Uppsala Stadsteater in Uppsala.{{cite web|url=http://www.svt.se/kultur/allan-svensson-spelar-kapten-klanning|title=Allan Svensson spelar "Kapten Klänning"|publisher=SVT Kultur|accessdate=12 January 2014|archive-date=12 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112131211/http://www.svt.se/kultur/allan-svensson-spelar-kapten-klanning|url-status=live}} In the summer of 2014 Svensson and Robert Gustafsson worked together in the play Charmörer på vift at the Krusenstiernska outside theater. Linda Olsson also appeared in the play as the love interest of both the men as "Yvette".{{cite press release|url=http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/werecki-company/pressreleases/superduon-robert-gustafsson-och-allan-svensson-i-huvudrollerna-i-charmoerer-paa-vift-paa-krusenstiernska-teatern-sommaren-2014-930448 |title=Superduon Robert Gustafsson och Allan Svensson i huvudrollerna i "Charmörer på vift" på Krusenstiernska teatern sommaren 2014! |publisher=mnd.se |accessdate=12 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112150711/http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/werecki-company/pressreleases/superduon-robert-gustafsson-och-allan-svensson-i-huvudrollerna-i-charmoerer-paa-vift-paa-krusenstiernska-teatern-sommaren-2014-930448 |archivedate=12 January 2014 }}

Svensson died from prostate cancer on 17 November 2024, at the age of 73.{{cite newspaper|title=Skådespelaren Allan Svensson är död |url=https://www.expressen.se/noje/skadespelaren-allan-svensson-ar-dod/ |access-date=18 November 2024 |publisher=Expressen |date=17 November 2024}}

Filmography (selection)

References

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External links

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Category:1951 births

Category:2024 deaths

Category:20th-century Swedish male actors

Category:21st-century Swedish male actors

Category:Swedish male film actors

Category:Swedish male stage actors

Category:Swedish male television actors

Category:Male actors from Stockholm

Category:Deaths from prostate cancer in Sweden