1915-09-10 ( 109 years old ) in Stockholm, Sweden

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.

Movies

Minns ni? 1993-10-24
Miss Chic 1959-01-26
Jazz Boy 1958-10-06
Seventh Heaven 1956-06-11
Gabrielle 1954-12-26
The Nuthouse 1951-09-21
Jack of Hearts 1950-09-18
Thirst 1949-10-17
Prison 1949-03-19
The Banquet 1948-12-18
Interlude 1946-02-11
Skådetennis 1945-01-22
The Sixth Shot 1943-09-24
Life and Death 1943-07-16
Life Goes On 1941-02-28
June Night 1940-04-03
Intermezzo 1936-11-16
Hemslavinnor 1933-04-10