Allan Edwall

Johan Allan Edwall was a Swedish stage and screen actor singer writer and director He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatres Acting School in 1952 Growing up in the landscape of Jämtland Edwall spent some time working on a ship before he arrived in Stockholm in the 1940s just barely making a living as a writer painter and poet before he was admitted to the Royal Dramatic Theaters acting school in 1949 After graduation he worked at the theater in the 1950s and 1960s  but he was mainly a jackofalltrades appearing on the stage in movies as well as recording and publishing his own songs He is remembered for a string of queer roles such as Emils father in the Emil of Lönneberga films the cheerful vagabond in the Rasmus and the vagabond movie the dying father in Ingmar Bergmans Fanny and Alexander as well as Carlsson in the TV adaptation of Strindbergs Hemsöborna In the later part of his life he owned his own theater Brunnsgatan 4 in Stockholm Biography by Mattias Thuresson