Gösta Cederlund
| Gösta Cederlund | |
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| Born |
6 March 1888 , Sweden |
| Died | 4 December 1980 (aged 92) |
| Years active | 1907–1975 |
| Spouse(s) | 1). Ingeborg Elisabeth Magni (1914–1930) (her death); 2). Anna-Lisa Ryding (1932–1980) (his death). |
Gösta Cederlund, Gustaf ("Gösta") Edvard Cederlund, (6 March 1888 – 4 December 1980) was a Swedish actor and film director.
Cederlund was one of Sweden's most popular and appreciated male character actors in Swedish films in the 1930s-1950s, appreciated for his naturalness as an actor and comedy play. With his 130-plus film roles in his life he's also still the record holder of most roles for a single male actor on film in Sweden.
Born in , the son of painter and carpenter E.H. Cederlund and Ida Matilda Ullman, Gösta Cederlund made his professional stage debut in 1907 at (; Sweden's national stage in Stockholm between 1875–1925). The following years he was part of the origibal ensemble at Strindberg's legendary theatre Intima teatern, where he performed in a number of the original stagings of Strindberg's plays (in smaller parts). Eventually as a young actor he turned to the silent screen in Sweden where he early on got to play small parts of arrogant farm workers and fighting school boys in some pioneer Swedish silent films; first appearing on screen in Tösen från Stormyrtorpet in 1917. Later on film during the talkies era, in 1930s-1950s, he got to show his strength as a character actor in notable supporting parts when he got to play the good middle aged and middle class men; often portraying middle-aged newspaper editors or doctors in Swedish films. But there are exceptions: his icy performance as the cynical banker in director Hasse Ekman's masterpiece Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths) 1950 and his tormented old actor in Nattens ljus (Light in the Night) (1957).
Among his most appreciated film roles we find his Professor Hagstam in films Vi två (1939) and Vi tre (1940), the stern Detective Inspector Lilja in the crime drama Ett brott (A Crime, 1940), Markel in drama Doktor Glas (1942) (based on the success novel of Hjalmar Söderberg), navy captain Göran Bergsten in comedy Blåjackor (Sailors, 1945), his doctor Hellsten in Hasse Ekman's drama Var sin väg (Each to His Own Way, 1948), Margaretha's daddy in Sickan Carlsson comedy Skolka skolan (1949), his tight lord with the monocle in early Swedish musical comedy Greven från gränden, starring Nils Poppe (1949), and, naturally, his tossy but heart-warm school teacher "Pippi" in Torment (Swedish: Hets) (1944), directed by Alf Sjöberg; internationally known as Ingmar Bergman's film script debut. The film's key-scene in the map-room where his teacher confronts the school's great antagonist Caligula - the sadistic teacher in Latin - about his teaching methods is one of strongest and most nerving scenes of the film (and considered one of the best classic scenes all-time in Sweden).
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