Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1915-09-10
Day of Death
2004-02-15
Place of Birth
Stockholm, Sweden
Hasse Ekman
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 (57)
Minns ni?
1993
Meeting with Hasse
1993
Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
1987
On a Bench in a Park
1960
Decimals of Love
1960
Heaven and Pancakes
1959
Miss Chic
1959
Jazz Boy
1958
The Great Amateur
1958
The Halo Is Slipping
1957
The Staffan Stolle Story
1956
Seventh Heaven
1956
Private Entrance
1956
Gabrielle
1954
