Hasse Ekman (10 September 1915 – 15 February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman (and aside from him) and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950. Much 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. 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. Also grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman. As an actor Ekman also came to act in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in a three of 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 in the female lead. Overall he made 50 roles in Swedish films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hasse Ekman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 1993Minns ni? — (archive footage)
• 1972KaRamellodier — Director
• 1969Cabarét Canalhumorn — Director
• 1969De sista entusiasterna — Director
• 1964The Marriage Wrestler — Director, Writer
• 1963My Love Is Like a Rose — Director
• 1961Funny Boy — Writer, Director
• 1961The Heist — Director
• 1960Decimals of Love — Karl Krister 'Charlie' Gedelius, Writer, Director
• 1960On a Bench in a Park — Stig Brender, Director, Writer
• 1959Heaven and Pancakes — Willy Lorens, Director, Writer
• 1959Miss Chic — Buster Carell, Writer, Director
• 1959Swinging at the Castle — Writer
• 1958Jazz Boy — Teddy Anker, Director, Writer
• 1958The Great Amateur — Max Wallby, Director, Writer
• 1958You Are My Adventure — Writer
• 1957Summer Place Wanted — Director
• 1957The Halo Is Slipping — Per-Axel Dahlander, Director, Writer
• 1956Private Entrance — Sture Falk, Writer, Director
• 1956Seventh Heaven — Willy Lorens, Writer, Director
• 1956The Staffan Stolle Story — Klad Traenger, Director, Writer
• 1954Gabrielle — Kjell Rodin, Writer, Director
• 1954I rök och dans — Well dressed man in haystack
• 1954The Yellow Squadron — Captain Birger Wreting
• 1953Resan till dej — Writer
• 1953Sawdust and Tinsel — Frans
• 1953The Glass Mountain — Stellan Sylvester, Writer
• 1953We Three Debutantes — Writer, Director
• 1952The Firebird — Director, Writer
• 1951The Nuthouse — Hans Hasseson Ekman / Fänrik Bråde / Kim (voice), Writer, Director
• 1950Girl with Hyacinths — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1950Jack of Hearts — Lt. Anders Canitz, Producer, Director, Writer
• 1950Kyssen på kryssen — Writer, Idea
• 1950The White Cat — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1949Prison — Martin Grande
• 1949Terras fönster 2
• 1949The Girl from the Third Row — Sture Anker, Director, Production Manager, Producer, Screenplay
• 1949Thirst — Dr. Rosengren
• 1948Each to His Own Way — Tage Sundell, Producer, Director, Writer
• 1948Little Martin Returns — Second Lieutenant Svensson, Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Lyricist, Special Effects, Dialogue, Scenario Writer
• 1948The Banquet — Hugo Stenbrott, Director, Screenplay
• 1947One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer — Bertil, Producer, Director, Writer
• 1946Den gamla goda tiden
• 1946Interlude — Vilhelm Canitz, Producer, Director, Writer
• 1946Love Goes Up and Down — Writer
• 1946Meeting in the Night — Åke, Director, Writer
• 1946While the Door Was Locked — Torsten "Totte" von Breda, Producer, Director, Writer
• 1945Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It — Kurre, Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 1945The Royal Rabble — Tommy Anker, Production Manager, Writer, Director, Producer
• 1945Wandering with the Moon — Ernst Törsleff, Director, Writer
• 1944A Day Will Dawn — Rutger von Brewitz, Director, Writer
• 1944A Profession for Men — Director
• 1944His Excellency — Director
• 1944Jag är eld och luft — Tore Ekström, Actor
• 1944Like Everyone Else — Producer, Director, Production Manager, Writer
• 1944Stopp! Tänk på något annat
• 1943Changing Trains — Joakim Lundell, Director, Writer
• 1943Life and Death — Kirre Granlund, Writer
• 1943The Sixth Shot — Man at the train platform, Director
• 1943Örlogsmän — Writer
• 1942Flames in the Dark — Per Sahlén, Director, Writer
• 1942Happiness Is on Its Way — Voice on the Radio (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1941Life Goes On — Ludvig Bourg
• 1941Magistrarna på sommarlov — Writer
• 1941The First Squadron — Franconian Bråde, Director, Writer
• 1941The Ghost Reporter — Writer
• 1940'Swing It' Teacher — Writer
• 1940Hjältar i gult och blått — Writer
• 1940June Night — Willy Wilson
• 1940Man of the Forest — Writer
• 1940With You in My Arms — Writer, Director
• 1939Cadets Together — Bertil Winge
• 1939Emelie Högqvist — Assistant Director
• 1938Med folket för fosterlandet — Writer
• 1938Thunder and Lightning — Writer
• 1937The Great John Ericsson
• 1936Intermezzo — Åke Brandt
• 1933En natt på Smygeholm
• 1933Hemslavinnor
• 1924The Young Nobleman

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 1993Meeting with Hasse — Self
• 1987Gösta Ekman - En levande legend — Self
• The Guldbagge Awards — Self - Creative Achievement Award winner
• 1945Skådetennis — Himself