Martin Ljung (b. Aug 15, 1917 in
LuleåLuleå is a city on the coast of northern Sweden with 45,467 inhabitants in 2005. It is the seat of Luleå Municipality and the capital of Norrbotten County.- Geography :...
),
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
comedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
,
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...
and singer. His movie debut was in the 1947 movie
Tappa inte sugen starring
Nils PoppeNils Poppe was a Swedish actor.Internationally, he is most famous for his part in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal but in Sweden, he was very popular in many other movies. He started off as a comic actor, but later on also played more serious roles....
.
Martin Ljung (b. Aug 15, 1917 in
LuleåLuleå is a city on the coast of northern Sweden with 45,467 inhabitants in 2005. It is the seat of Luleå Municipality and the capital of Norrbotten County.- Geography :...
),
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
comedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
,
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...
and singer. His movie debut was in the 1947 movie
Tappa inte sugen starring
Nils PoppeNils Poppe was a Swedish actor.Internationally, he is most famous for his part in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal but in Sweden, he was very popular in many other movies. He started off as a comic actor, but later on also played more serious roles....
.
Ljung worked together with
Povel RamelBaron Powel Karl Henric Ramel was a Swedish entertainer. Ramel was a singer, pianist, vaudeville artist, author and a novelty song composer. His style was characterized by imaginative wit, both verbal and musical...
for many years, and acted and sang in several of Ramel's
revueA revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th-century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca. 1916-32...
s, where he also performed comic
monologueA monologue is an extended uninterrupted speech by a character in a drama. The character may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud, directly addressing another character, or speaking to the audience, especially the former. Monologues are common across the range of dramatic media .Monologuing is...
s, including
Ester and
Fingal Olsson, which have become Swedish comedy classics.
He also worked with Hasse Alfredson and
Tage DanielssonTage Danielsson was a Swedish author, actor, poet and film director. He was born in Linköping and died in Stockholm...
, both in revues such as
Spader, Madame! and
Glaset i Örat (The Glass in the Ear) and movies such as
ÄppelkrigetThe Apple War is a 1971 Swedish comedy-drama film directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredsson, Tage Danielsson, Monica Zetterlund and Max von Sydow...
.