Allan Edwall

Johan Allan Edwall 25 August 1924 7 February 1997 was a Swedish actor director author composer and singer bestknown outside Sweden for the small roles he played in some of Ingmar Bergmans films such as Fanny and Alexander 1982 He found his largest audience in the Scandinavian countries for playing lovable characters in several of the film and TV adaptations of the childrens stories by Astrid Lindgren He attended Stockholms Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1949 to 1952 During his long career he appeared in over 400 works At the 10th Guldbagge Awards in 1974 he won the award for Best Actor for his role as Emils shorttempered father Anton Svensson in Emil and the Piglet His 1984 film Åke and His World was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival In his selfwritten songs he frequently attacked the injustices of society The music is similar to folk music often using violin and accordion He won a Swedish Grammy posthumously in 2006 Edwall also owned a theatre Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm which he bought in 1986 and operated until his death in 1997 of prostate cancer it is now managed by Kristina Lugns daughter Martina Montelius citation neededHe was the father of photographer Mattias Edwall and stage director actor and musician Måns Edwall 19602016 Acting colleague Erland Josephson wrote about him in Expressen after his death He was odd But damn it he managed to be odd in a universal way