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Swedish author, actor, comedian, poet and film director
Tage Danielsson
(
Swedish pronunciation:
[?t??ː??
?d??ːn??l?s?n]
; 5 February 1928 – 13 October 1985) was a
Swedish
author, actor, comedian, poet and film director. He is best known for his collaboration with
Hans Alfredson
in the comedy duo
Hasse & Tage
.
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After graduation from
Katedralskolan
in
Linkoping
, Danielsson matriculated at the
University of Uppsala
in 1949. There he got involved in student theatre of
Ostgota Nation
and became a member of the
Juvenalorden
, as well as serving as vice president of the
Uppsala Student Union
.
After graduation, Tage Danielsson found work at
Sveriges Radio
in 1955. From 1959 to 1962, he was the manager for its entertainment department. At his work he came in contact with Hans Alfredson. They started the entertainment production company
AB Svenska Ord
(Swedish Words Ltd) together in 1961. Danielsson and Alfredson wrote, directed and acted in multiple
revues
and films over the coming decades.
In 1972 at the
8th Guldbagge Awards
he won the
Best Director
award for the film
The Apple War
.
[1]
At the
12th Guldbagge Awards
his film
Release the Prisoners to Spring
won the award for
Best Film
.
[2]
At the
14th Guldbagge Awards
his film
The Adventures of Picasso
won the award for
Best Film
.
[3]
In 1985 his 1984 film
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
, based on
Astrid Lindgren
's 1981 book
Ronia the Robber's Daughter
, was entered into the
35th Berlin International Film Festival
.
[4]
Svenska Ord in general, and Danielsson in particular, excelled in making scorching comments on current events in an illusorily naive and outward-lookingly friendly way that often succeeded to endear even political opponents to his particular brand of
humorist humanism
. He was also a constant campaigner behind the scene for causes ranging from Anti-Apartheid to Anti-Nuclear to social solidarity, he was also a regular contributor to the
anarcho-syndicalist
newspaper
Arbetaren
.
In 1980 he received an honorary doctorate at
Linkoping University
. His death in 1985 was from
skin cancer
(
Malignant melanoma
). A statue of him can be seen just outside the grounds of his old school.
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