Hans Alfredson

Hasse Alfredson

Hans Alfredson, 2007
Born 28 June 1931
Malmö, Sweden
Occupation Actor, film director, writer, comedian
Children Daniel Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson
Sofi Alfredson

Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson (born 28 June 1931) is a Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson (the two of them often referred to as Hasseåtage). His most celebrated contribution to their brand of humorist humanism was his ability to extemporize wildly absurd comic situations, for example in the so-called Lindeman dialogues.

At the 11th Guldbagge Awards, he won the Best Director award for his 1975 film Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story.[1] His 1981 film The Simple-Minded Murderer won three awards at the 18th Guldbagge Awards[2] and was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.[3] His 1985 film False as Water won the award for Best Director at the 21st Guldbagge Awards.[4]

1992–1994 Hans Alfredson was head of the open air museum Skansen in Stockholm. He has also written a string of books, some intensely comic in a Monty Python style, some equally intensely tragic, some a mixture of the two.

He is the father of directors Daniel and Tomas Alfredson.

Selected works

Acting

Directing

Books

References

  1. "Ägget är löst! (1975)". Swedish Film Institute. 5 March 2014.
  2. "Den enfaldige mördaren (1982)". Swedish Film Institute. 9 March 2014.
  3. "Berlinale: 1982 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  4. "Falsk som vatten (1985)". The Swedish Film Database. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

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