Hasse Ekman

Hasse Ekman was born in Stockholm on 10 September 1915, the son of the actor Gösta Ekman. An actor from childhood, he wrote his first screenplay in 1938 and directed his first film in 1940, at the age of twenty-four, for the producer Lorens Marmstedt. Actor, screenwriter, producer and theatre director, he made more than forty films until 1964, and is regarded as the most esteemed Swedish filmmaker between the masters of the silent era and Ingmar Bergman. Retired in Spain, he died in Marbella on 15 February 2004, aged eighty-eight.

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• CinemaGirl with HyacinthsFlicka och hyacinterHasse Ekman · 1950Cinema