
Hasse Ekman
DirectingAlso Known As
Hans Ekman, Hans Gösta Ekman, Heman
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.
Movies
(57 total)
Sawdust and Tinsel
as Frans

Thirst
as Dr. Rosengren

Prison
as Martin Grande

Intermezzo
as Åke Brandt

June Night
as Willy Wilson

The Banquet
as Hugo Stenbrott

While the Door Was Locked
as Torsten "Totte" von Breda

The Staffan Stolle Story
as Klad Traenger

Miss Chic
as Buster Carell

The Yellow Squadron
as Captain Birger Wreting

The Girl from the Third Row
as Sture Anker

Little Martin Returns
as Second Lieutenant Svensson

On a Bench in a Park
as Stig Brender

Seventh Heaven
as Willy Lorens

Private Entrance
as Sture Falk

The Royal Rabble
as Tommy Anker

The Halo Is Slipping
as Per-Axel Dahlander

Gabrielle
as Kjell Rodin

The First Squadron
as Franconian Bråde
