Hasse Ekman

Biography Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director from the period after Sjöström and Stiller and prior to Ingmar Bergman, peaking between the mid-1940s and 1950. He was greatly 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. His 1957 film Summer Place Wanted was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.

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. He is the grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman.

As an actor Ekman appeared in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in three 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 as the female lead. Overall, he appeared in fifty Swedish films.

Selected filmography Director

1940: Med dej i mina armar 1941: Första divisionen 1942: Flames in the Dark 1942: Lyckan kommer 1943: Ombyte av tåg 1943: The Sixth Shot 1944: Som folk är mest 1944: His Excellency 1945: Kungliga patrasket (The Royal Rabble) 1945: Vandring med månen (Wandering with the Moon) 1945: Fram för lilla Märta 1946: Meeting in the Night 1946: Interlude 1946: Medan porten var stängd (While the Door Was Locked) 1947: One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (En fluga gör ingen sommar) 1948: Each to His Own Way 1948: Lilla Märta kommer tillbaka (Little Martin Returns) 1948: Banketten (The Banquet) 1949: Flickan från tredje raden (The Girl from the Third Row) 1950: Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths) 1950: The White Cat 1950: Jack of Hearts 1951: The Nuthouse 1952: The Firebird 1953: We Three Debutantes 1954: Gabrielle 1956: Ratataa 1956: Egen ingång 1956: Seventh Heaven 1957: Summer Place Wanted 1957: The Halo Is Slipping 1958: The Jazz Boy 1958: The Great Amateur 1959: Fröken Chic 1959: Heaven and Pancake 1960: On a Bench in a Park 1960: Kärlekens decimaler 1961: Rififi in Stockholm 1963: Min kära är en ros (My Love Is Like a Rose) 1964: Äktenskapsbrottaren 1965: Niklasons (TV Series)

screenwriting 1938: Thunder and Lightning 1940: Swing it, magistern! 1940: A Real Man 1940: Heroes in Yellow and Blue 1941: Magistrarna på sommarlov 1941: The Ghost Reporter 1943: Ombyte av tåg 1943: Men of the Navy 1945: Fram för lilla Märta 1945: Kungliga patrasket (The Royal Rabble) 1946: Medan porten var stängd (While the Door Was Locked) 1948: Love Goes Up and Down 1948: Each to His Own Way 1948: Banketten ("The Banquet") 1949: Flickan från tredje raden (The Girl from the Third Row) 1950: Girl with Hyacinths 1950: The Kiss on the Cruise 1953: Resan till dej 1956: Ratataa 1956: Egen ingång 1956: Seventh Heaven 1957: The Halo Is Slipping 1958: You Are My Adventure 1958: The Jazz Boy 1959: Fröken Chic

Actor

1924: Unga greven tar flickan och priset - Curious boy 1933: House Slaves - Kurt Rosenqvist 1933: En natt på Smygeholm - Leonard Barring 1936: Intermezzo - Åke Brandt 1937: John Ericsson - segraren vid Hampton Roads 1938: Thunder and Lightning - Bertil Bendix, Pontus sekreterare 1938: Med folket för fosterlandet - Hjalmar Karlsson 1939: Kadettkamrater - Bertil Winge 1940: Juninatten - Willy Wilson 1940: Med dej i mina armar - Svanberg's Secretary (voice, uncredited) 1941: Life Goes On - Ludvig 1941: Första divisionen - Fänrik Bråde 1942: Flames in the Dark - Per Sahlén, Student 1942: Lyckan kommer - Radioröst (voice, uncredited) 1943: Ombyte av tåg - Kim 1943: Life and Death - Kirre Granlund 1943: Sjätte skottet - Man med Marguerite på tågstationen (uncredited) 1944: En dag skall gry - Rutger von Brewitz 1944: I Am Fire and Air - Tore Ekström 1944: Stopp! Tänk på något annat - Karsten Kirsewetter 1945: Kungliga patrasket (The Royal Rabble) - Hans son 1945: Vandring med månen (Wandering with the Moon) - Ernst Törsleff 1945: Fram för lilla Märta - Kurre 1946: Interlude - Vilhelm Canitz 1946: Meeting in the Night - Åke 1946: While the Door Was Locked - Torsten v. Breda 1947: One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer - Bertil 1948: Each to His Own Way - Tage Sundell 1948: Lilla Märta kommer tillbaka - Fänriken 1948: Banketten (The Banquet) - Hugo 1949: Prison - Martin Grandé 1949: Flickan från tredje raden (The Girl from the Third Row) - Sture Anker 1949: Thirst - Dr. Rosengren 1950: Jack of Hearts - Anders Canitz 1951: The Nuthouse - Hans Hasseson Ekman / Fänrik Bråde / Kim (voice) 1953: We Three Debutantes - Narrator (voice, uncredited) 1953: Sawdust and Tinsel - Frans 1953: The Glass Mountain - Stellan Sylvester 1954: Dance in the Smoke - Gentleman in haystack (uncredited) 1954: The Yellow Squadron - Birger Wreting 1954: Gabrielle - Kjell Rodin 1956: Egen ingång - Sture Falk 1956: Seventh Heaven - Willy Lorens, radioprogramledare 1956: Ratataa - Klåd Tränger 1957: The Halo Is Slipping - Per-Axel Dahlander 1958: The Great Amateur - Max Wallby 1958: The Jazz Boy - Teddy Anker 1959: Fröken Chic - Buster Carell 1959: Heaven and Pancake - Villy Lorens 1960: Kärlekens decimaler - Karl Krister 'Charlie' Gedelius 1960: On a Bench in a Park - Stig Brender