Bengt Gunnar Eklund (1925-1998) was a
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Bengt Gunnar Eklund (1925-1998) was a
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
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Eklund worked for many years at the
Royal Dramatic TheatreThe Royal Dramatic Theatre , colloquially known in Sweden as Dramaten, is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's eight running stages....
in
Stockholm' is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the Riksdag , and the official residence of the Swedish Monarch as well as the prime minister. The Monarch resides at Drottningholm Palace outside of Stockholm since 1980 and uses the Royal Palace of...
, but also made a large number of roles in movies and television, including
Ingmar BergmanErnst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. His influential body of work often dealt with themes such as bleakness and despair, as well as comedy and hope, in his cinematic exploration of the human condition...
's
Summer with MonikaSummer with Monika is a 1953 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It sparked controversy abroad for its frank depiction of nudity, and along with the film One Summer of Happiness from the year before, directed by Arne Mattsson, it started the reputation of Sweden as a sexually liberated place...
(1953) and
Shame (1968), and
Gustaf MolanderGustaf Harald August Molander was a Swedish actor and film director. His parents were the director Harald Molander and the singer and actress Lydia Molander, née Wessler, and his brother was the director Olof Molander...
's film
Sir Arne's Treasure (1954; based on the novel by
Selma LagerlöfSelma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige .- Biography :Born at Mårbacka an estate in Värmland in western...
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He was married to actress
Fylgia ZadigFylgia Ester Zadig was a Swedish actress.Fylgia Zadig was born in Malmö. She was for many years employed with the Uppsala stadsteater and the Nya teatern in Stockholm. She also had roles in numerous Swedish films....
and father of economist
Klas EklundKlas Eklund is a Swedish economist and writer.Eklund was born in Uppsala as the son of the actor couple Bengt Eklund and Fylgia Zadig . He went to high school in Stockholm, but also spent a year at Wausau Senior High in Wisconsin...
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