Directing
Hasse Ekman
SV, EN cinema · 83 credits
Born
10 September 1915
Died
15 February 2004 (aged 88)
Birthplace
Stockholm, Sweden
Also known as Hans Ekman · Hans Gösta Ekman · Heman
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.
Known for
Filmography
Minns ni?
as (archive footage)
KaRamellodier
Director
Cabarét Canalhumorn
Director
The Marriage Wrestler
Writer, Director
Funny Boy
Writer, Director
The Heist
Director
On a Bench in a Park
as Stig Brender, Director, Writer
Decimals of Love
as Karl Krister 'Charlie' Gedelius, Director, Writer
Miss Chic
as Buster Carell, Director, Writer
Heaven and Pancakes
as Willy Lorens, Director, Writer
Jazz Boy
as Teddy Anker, Director, Writer
The Great Amateur
as Max Wallby, Director, Writer
The Halo Is Slipping
as Per-Axel Dahlander, Director, Writer
Summer Place Wanted
Director
Seventh Heaven
as Willy Lorens, Director, Writer
The Staffan Stolle Story
as Klad Traenger, Writer, Director
Private Entrance
as Sture Falk, Director, Writer
The Yellow Squadron
as Captain Birger Wreting
Gabrielle
as Kjell Rodin, Writer, Director
I rök och dans
as Well dressed man in haystack, Actor
Sawdust and Tinsel
as Frans
We Three Debutantes
Actor, Writer, Director
Glasberget
1953
The Glass Mountain
as Stellan Sylvester, Writer
The Firebird
Director, Writer
The Nuthouse
as Hans Hasseson Ekman / Fänrik Bråde / Kim (voice), Writer, Director
Jack of Hearts
as Lt. Anders Canitz, Producer, Director, Writer
Girl with Hyacinths
Writer, Director, Producer
The White Cat
Director, Producer, Writer
Kyssen på kryssen
Writer, Idea
Thirst
as Dr. Rosengren
The Girl from the Third Row
as Sture Anker, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Production Manager
Prison
as Martin Grande
The Banquet
as Hugo Stenbrott, Director, Screenplay
Little Martin Returns
as Second Lieutenant Svensson, Director, Lyricist, Dialogue, Special Effects, Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Scenario Writer
Each to His Own Way
as Tage Sundell, Producer, Writer, Director
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
as Bertil, Producer, Director, Writer
Interlude
as Vilhelm Canitz, Writer, Producer, Director
While the Door Was Locked
as Torsten "Totte" von Breda, Producer, Director, Writer
Meeting in the Night
as Åke, Director, Writer
The Royal Rabble
as Tommy Anker, Director, Writer, Production Manager, Producer
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
as Kurre, Producer, Director, Screenplay
Wandering with the Moon
as Ernst Törsleff, Director, Writer
Skådetennis
as Himself
A Day Will Dawn
as Rutger von Brewitz, Writer, Director
Jag är eld och luft
as Tore Ekström, Actor
Like Everyone Else
Producer, Writer, Director, Production Manager
His Excellency
Director
The Sixth Shot
as Man at the train platform, Director
Changing Trains
as Joakim Lundell, Director, Writer
Life and Death
as Kirre Granlund, Writer
Örlogsmän
Writer
Flames in the Dark
as Per Sahlén, Writer, Director
Happiness Is on Its Way
as Voice on the Radio (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
Life Goes On
as Ludvig Bourg
The First Squadron
as Franconian Bråde, Director, Writer
June Night
as Willy Wilson
With You in My Arms
Writer, Director
Kadettkamrater
1939
Cadets Together
as Bertil Winge
Emelie Högqvist
Assistant Director
Thunder and Lightning
Actor, Writer
Med folket för fosterlandet
Actor, Writer
Intermezzo
as Åke Brandt