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Hasse Ekman

{{short description|Swedish actor}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Hasse Ekman

| image = Hasse Ekman 1953.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Hasse Ekman in 1953.

| birth_name = Hans Gösta Ekman

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|09|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2004|2|15|1915|9|10}}

| death_place = Marbella, Spain

| nationality = Swedish

| other_names =

| occupation = Actor, director, writer, producer

| years_active = 1924–1964

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| notable_works =

| spouse = {{plainlist|

  • {{marriage|Agneta Wrangel|1938|1944}}
  • {{marriage|Eva Henning|1946|1953}}
  • {{marriage|Tutta Rolf|1953|1972}}
  • {{marriage|Viveca Trädgårdh|1974|2004}}

}}

| children = Gösta
Krister
Mikael
Stefan
Fam

| parents = Gösta Ekman
Greta Ekman

}}

Hasse Ekman (born Hans Gösta Ekman; 10{{nbsp}}September 1915{{snd}}15{{nbsp}}February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage{{cite book|last=Manstad|first=Margit|date=1987|title=Och vinden viskade så förtroligt|location=Stockholm|publisher=Läsförlaget AB|page=180|id={{LIBRIS|7673797}}|isbn=91-7902-067-4}} and television.

Biography

Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director from the period after Sjöström and Stiller and prior to Ingmar Bergman, peaking between the mid-1940s and 1950. He was greatly 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. His 1957 film Summer Place Wanted was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1959 |title=1st Moscow International Film Festival (1959) |access-date=2012-10-30 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210640/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1959 |archive-date=2013-01-16 }}

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. He is the grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman.[http://hittagraven.stockholm.se/Sok/?&cemetery=22&firstName=hans%20g%C3%B6sta&lastName=ekman Hitta graven]

As an actor Ekman appeared in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in three 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 as the female lead. Overall he appeared in fifty Swedish films.

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Hur ska det gå med mej?, Hasse Ekman, Stockholm: Hökerberg, 1933.
  • Gösta Ekman, Hasse Ekman, Stockholm: Bonnier, 1938.
  • Den vackra ankungen, Hasse Ekman, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1955.
  • Kurre Korint och drömfabriken: en djupt osannfärdig berättelse från filmens underbara värld, Hasse Ekman, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1956.

References

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External links

  • [http://ekmansallskapet.se/ Ekmansocietys website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022095446/http://ekmansallskapet.se/ |date=2020-10-22 }}
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Category:1915 births

Category:2004 deaths

Category:Male actors from Stockholm

Category:Swedish film directors

Category:Swedish male film actors

Category:Burials at Norra begravningsplatsen

Category:20th-century Swedish male actors