Sam Ask
{{Short description|Swedish screenwriter and actor}}
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| birth_date = 16 October 1878
| birth_place = Klippan, Scania, Sweden
| death_date = 15 July 1937 (aged 58)
| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden
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| occupation = Writer, Actor
| yearsactive = 1916–1935 (film)
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Sam Ask (16 October 1878 – 15 July 1937) was a Swedish screenwriter and actor.Glavin p.211 He also directed the 1928 silent comedy film Erik XIV.
Ask was a long-time student at Lund University, and enrolled as a law student in 1897 although he never graduated before he formally ended his university studies in 1909.
Selected filmography
- Kiss of Death (1916)
- The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
- Synnöve Solbakken (1919)
- A Dangerous Wooing (1919)
- Robinson i skärgården (1920)
- Thora van Deken (1920)
- The Mill (1921)
- A Wild Bird (1921)
- A Fortune Hunter (1921)
- The Eyes of Love (1922)
- The Suitor from the Highway (1923)
- Iron Wills (1923)
- House Slaves (1923)
- Little Dorrit (1924)
- Charley's Aunt (1926)
- The Devil and the Smalander (1927)
- Erik XIV (1928)
- The Girl from Värmland (1931)
- Adventure in Pyjamas (1935)
References
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Bibliography
- Glavin, John. Dickens on Screen. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0039377}}
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Category:Swedish screenwriters
Category:Swedish male film actors
Category:Lund University alumni
Category:People from Klippan Municipality
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