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Actor
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Male
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Birth:
25 February 1893(Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden, Union between Sweden and Norway)
Death:
31 October 1979(Solna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, Union between Sweden and Norway)
Family:
Spouse(s):
Harriet Bosse
Mildred Mehle
Children:
Kristina Adolphson
Olle Adolphson
Anna-Greta Adolphson
Kari Thomée
Per B. Adolphson
Leo Cullborg
The details
Biography
Introduction
Gustav Edvin Adolphson (25 February 1893 – 31 October 1979) was a Swedish film actor and director who appeared in over 500 roles. He made his debut in 1912. He appeared with Ingrid Bergman in Only One Night (1939), and is noted for his roles in the film Änglar, finns dom? (1961), the television version of August Strindberg's Hemsöborna (1966), and as Markurell in Markurells i Wadköping (1968). He also directed the first Swedish sound film, Säg det i toner in 1929.
He was actress Harriet Bosse's third husband (1927–1932) and is father of actress Kristina Adolphson (b. 1937) and songwriter/composer Olle Adolphson (1934–2004). Adolphson was born in Furingstad, Sweden (Östergötland County), and died in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.
Selected filmography
- The Triumph of the Heart (1929)
- Säg det i toner (1929)
- Love and Deficit (1932)
- Munkbrogreven (1935)
- Dollar (1938)
- Only One Night (1939)
- Ett brott (1940)
- Med dej i mina armar (1940)
- Fröken Kyrkråtta (1941)
- Flames in the Dark (1942)
- Sjätte skottet (1943)
- En dag skall gry (1944)
- Kungliga patrasket (1945)
- Flottans kavaljerer (1948)
- One Summer of Happiness (1951)
- The Nuthouse (1951)
- The Phantom Carriage (1958)
- Änglar, finns dom? (1961)
- Swedish Wedding Night (1964)