
Hasse Ekman
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.
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Acting (53 movies)

The Yellow Squadron
1954

Minns ni?
1993

June Night
1940

Sawdust and Tinsel
1953

Thirst
1949

Gabrielle
1954

Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
1987

Meeting with Hasse
1993

The Girl from the Third Row
1949

The Banquet
1948

The Royal Rabble
1945

Flames in the Dark
1942

The Sixth Shot
1943

Life Goes On
1941

Changing Trains
1943

Intermezzo
1936

The First Squadron
1941

Happiness Is on Its Way
1942

Prison
1949

Interlude
1946

On a Bench in a Park
1960

Miss Chic
1959

A Day Will Dawn
1944

While the Door Was Locked
1946

Seventh Heaven
1956

Jazz Boy
1958

We Three Debutantes
1953

The Halo Is Slipping
1957

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945

Little Martin Returns
1948

The Staffan Stolle Story
1956

The Nuthouse
1951

En natt på Smygeholm
1933

Med folket för fosterlandet
1938

Thunder and Lightning
1938

The Great John Ericsson
1937

The Young Nobleman
1924

Stopp! Tänk på något annat
1944

Hemslavinnor
1933

Private Entrance
1956

Meeting in the Night
1946

Heaven and Pancakes
1959

Each to His Own Way
1948

Jack of Hearts
1950

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
1947

Decimals of Love
1960

Wandering with the Moon
1945

I rök och dans
1954

The Great Amateur
1958

Life and Death
1943

Jag är eld och luft
1944

Skådetennis
1945

I rök och dans
1954
Directing (46 movies)

The Girl from the Third Row
1949

Girl with Hyacinths
1950

Gabrielle
1954

The Banquet
1948

The Royal Rabble
1945

Flames in the Dark
1942

Changing Trains
1943

The Sixth Shot
1943

Happiness Is on Its Way
1942

The First Squadron
1941

Interlude
1946

Miss Chic
1959

KaRamellodier
1972

A Day Will Dawn
1944

On a Bench in a Park
1960

While the Door Was Locked
1946

The White Cat
1950

Seventh Heaven
1956

Funny Boy
1961

Summer Place Wanted
1957

The Firebird
1952

Jazz Boy
1958

With You in My Arms
1940

The Halo Is Slipping
1957

The Staffan Stolle Story
1956

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945

Little Martin Returns
1948

De sista entusiasterna
1969

The Nuthouse
1951

Like Everyone Else
1944

The Heist
1961

Wandering with the Moon
1945

Cabarét Canalhumorn
1969

His Excellency
1944

Meeting in the Night
1946

Private Entrance
1956

Each to His Own Way
1948

Heaven and Pancakes
1959

Jack of Hearts
1950

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
1947

We Three Debutantes
1953

Decimals of Love
1960

The Great Amateur
1958

My Love Is Like a Rose
1963

The Marriage Wrestler
1964

A Profession for Men
1944