Swedish actor
Hasse Alfredson
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Hans Alfredson in 2007.
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Born
| Hans Folke Alfredson
(
1931-06-28
)
28 June 1931
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Died
| 10 September 2017
(2017-09-10)
(aged 86)
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Nationality
| Swedish
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Occupation(s)
| Actor, film director, writer, comedian
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Years active
| 1948?2012
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Known for
| Hasse & Tage
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Children
| Daniel
(born 1959)
Mats (1962?1967)
Tomas
(born 1965)
Sofi (born 1968)
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Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson
(28 June 1931 ? 10 September 2017
[1]
[2]
) was a
Swedish
actor, film director, writer, and comedian. He was born in
Malmo
,
Sweden
. He is known for his collaboration with
Tage Danielsson
as the duo
Hasse & Tage
and their production company
AB Svenska Ord
("Swedish Words Ltd").
[3]
His most celebrated contribution to their brand of
humorist humanism
was his ability to extemporize wildly absurd comic situations, for example in the
Lindeman
dialogues.
Towards the end of his life, Alfredson made it clear that he preferred his real name, Hans, over the commonly used nickname "Hasse".
[4]
He was the father of directors
Daniel
and
Tomas Alfredson
.
Career
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Through his collaboration with Danielsson, with whom he produced several
revue shows
and films, Alfredson became one of Sweden's best-known comedians and a major, enduringly popular celebrity. Already in 1970, however, he performed a less sympathetic role in
Grisjakten
. Later in his life, Alfredson would more or less completely turn around to become an author and director of serious, non-comedic works. In 1982 he directed and starred as the antagonist in the film
The Simple-Minded Murderer
, based on his novel "En ond man" ("An Evil Man"). With just a brief return to revue comedy in 1984, he rarely revisited the genre after the 1985 death of Tage Danielsson. In addition to shows and movies, he authored numerous books, including
Monty Python
-style comedies as well as tragic and melancholy works.
Between 1992 and 1994, Alfredson was head of the open-air museum
Skansen
in
Stockholm
.
[5]
In the mid-00s, Alfredson participated in the Danish TV series
The Eagle
. His last cinematic work was the 2009 adaption of
Stieg Larsson
's novel
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
, directed by his son
Daniel Alfredson
.
Awards
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His work, alone and with Danielsson, won several awards. At the
11th Guldbagge Awards
, he won the
Best Director
award for his 1975 film
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
.
[6]
His 1981 film
The Simple-Minded Murderer
won three awards at the
18th Guldbagge Awards
[7]
and was entered into the
32nd Berlin International Film Festival
.
[8]
His 1985 film
False as Water
won the award for
Best Director
at the
21st Guldbagge Awards
.
[9]
Selected works
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Books
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