Folke Sundquist

Folke Sundquist (born November 4, 1925 in Falun , † January 13, 2009 in Malmö ) was a Swedish actor .

Life

Sundquist was born in the mining town of Falun, central Sweden near Lake Runn . After secondary school, he completed an acting training at the drama school of the Göteborg City Theater (Göteborgs Stadsteater) from the early 1940s . There he made his stage debut as a theater actor in 1947. In September 1947 he played there in the new production of August Strindberg's play Ein Traumspiel . He also appeared at the Göteborg City Theater in the play Hans Nåds Testamente ( The Testament of His Grace ) by Hjalmar Bergman ; his partner in this play was the young actress Ulla Jacobsson .

1950 Sundquist was engaged to the Malmö City Theater (Malmö Stadsteater); he remained connected to this theater over the next thirty years of his stage career. As an actor, Sundquist interpreted a wide repertoire , which included plays by William Shakespeare , the Scandinavian theater of the turn of the century , but also plays from modern times and contemporary theater. Sundquist played roles in both serious trade and comedies; He also made occasional trips to operettas and musicals .

He appeared in Was ihr wollt , Andromache , Die Kamelliendame (1956 as Armand Duval with Inga Tigblad in the title role), in the comedies Invitation to the Castle and The Orchestra by Jean Anouilh , in the comedy Die Lästerschule ( Skandalskolan ) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and in the musicals My Fair Lady and Irma la Douce . In 1954 he played under the direction of Ingmar Bergman the student in Strindberg's chamber play The Ghost Sonata . In 1955 he was the narrator (death) in Bergman's one-act play Trämålning , the nucleus for Bergman's later film The Seventh Seal . In 1958, Bergman directed the role of Sune in Sagan by Hjalmar Bergman. Under Ingmar Bergman directed Sundquist played in 1958 and the Valentin in Urfaust of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He also took over Erik in 1958 under Bergman's direction in the folk play Värmlänningarna by Fredrik August Dahlgren (1816–1895). In 1983 he ended his acting career at the Malmö City Theater with the title role in Molière's comedy Tartuffe .

Sundquist also worked for film and television . Between 1951 and 1968, the end of his film career, he made about twenty feature films and television films; thereafter Sundquist devoted himself exclusively to his career as a theater actor. Sundquist was discovered for the film by the Swedish director Arne Mattsson at a performance of Hans Nåd's Testamente in Gothenburg. He then cast Sundquist and Jacobsson for his film drama You Danced Just One Summer (1951). Sundquist played the high school graduate Göran Stendahl, who fell in love with the farmer girl Kerstin during the summer vacation in the country. A short love scene in which Sundquist and Jacobsson were seen completely naked caused a stir at the time.

Under Mattsson's direction, he also played the student Torben Altman in the love drama It Happened from Hot Childhood Love (1952), a prison inmate in the film drama The Bread of Love (1953) and the businessman Christer Berg in his last film, Bamse (1968), in which he was seen again together with Ulla Jacobsson. For the cinema he also worked with Ingmar Bergman. In his film drama Wild Strawberries (1957) he played the hitchhiker Anders and was one of the admirers of the film character Sarah.

After the end of his career, Sundquist devoted himself to humanitarian aid projects in the 1980s, including in Greece . Sundquist died after a brief illness at the age of 83.

Filmography (selection)

• 1951: She only danced one summer (Hon dansade en sommar)
• 1952: It happened out of hot childhood love (För min heta ungdoms skull)
• 1953: The bread of love (Kärlekens bröd)
• 1955: The Isle of the Dead
• 1956: Flickan i frack
• 1957: It happened on a spring night (Livets vår)
• 1957: Wild strawberries (Smultronstället)
• 1961: Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
• 1968: Bamse

Web links

• Folke Sundquist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Folke Sundquist död obituary (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Folke Sundquist biography at Cineartistes.com
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Folke Sundquist död ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary in: Sydsvenskan of January 14, 2009  
3. ↑ Spöksonaten, 1954  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. occupation  
4. ↑ Trämålning, 1955 ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. occupation  
5. ↑ Sagan, 1958  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. occupation  
6. ↑ Ur-Faust, 1958  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. occupation  
7. ↑ Värmlänningarna, 1958  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. occupation