Hasse Ekman
Hasse Ekman in 1953.
Born	Hans Gösta Ekman (1915-09-10)10 September 1915 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	15 February 2004(2004-02-15) (aged 88) Marbella, Spain
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation(s)	Actor, director, writer, producer
Years active	1924–1964
Spouses	Agneta Wrangel ​ ( m. 1938⁠–⁠1944)​ Eva Henning ​ ( m. 1946⁠–⁠1953)​ Tutta Rolf ​ ( m. 1953⁠–⁠1972)​ Viveca Trädgårdh ​ ​ ( m. 1974⁠–⁠2004)​
Children	Gösta Krister Mikael Stefan Fam
Parent(s)	Gösta Ekman Greta Ekman

Hasse Ekman (born Hans Gösta Ekman; 10 September 1915 – 15 February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage ^[1] 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. ^[2]

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. ^[3]

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

Director

screenwriting

• 1938: Thunder and Lightning
• 1940: Swing it, magistern!
• 1940: A Real Man
• 1940: Heroes in Yellow and Blue
• 1941: Magistrarna på sommarlov
• 1941: The Ghost Reporter
• 1943: Ombyte av tåg
• 1943: Men of the Navy
• 1945: Fram för lilla Märta
• 1945: Kungliga patrasket (The Royal Rabble)
• 1946: Medan porten var stängd (While the Door Was Locked)
• 1948: Love Goes Up and Down
• 1948: Each to His Own Way
• 1948: Banketten ("The Banquet")
• 1949: Flickan från tredje raden (The Girl from the Third Row)
• 1950: Girl with Hyacinths
• 1950: The Kiss on the Cruise
• 1953: Resan till dej
• 1956: Ratataa
• 1956: Egen ingång
• 1956: Seventh Heaven
• 1957: The Halo Is Slipping
• 1958: You Are My Adventure
• 1958: The Jazz Boy
• 1959: Fröken Chic

Actor

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

• Ekmansocietys website Archived 2020-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Hasse Ekman at IMDb
• Hasse Ekman at the Swedish Film Database