Jarl Lage Kulle (28 February 1927 – 3 October 1997) was a Swedish film and stage actor and director, and father of

Maria Kulle Hulda Maria Charlotte Kulle (born 26 April 1960 in Svalöv Municipality) is a Swedish actress. The daughter of Jarl Kulle and Louise Hermelin earlier was married to Lars-Erik Berenett. Kulle studied at Teaterhögskolan i Malmö 1985–88 and ...

. Kulle was born in the village of Truedstorp, outside Ekeby, Sweden, and was the son of the merchant Nils Kulle and Mia Bergendahl. Kulle was one of the leading Swedish stage actors of his generation and often appeared in TV productions, at the

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of Stockholm as well as in a number of films, several of these directed by

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. Taking on many star parts of the classical and modern repertory, appearing in contemporary TV drama and musicals and armed with remarkable gifts for both comedy, romantic drama and slightly declamatory but controlled pathos, he was one of Sweden's most loved modern actors. In 1965 he won the award for Best Actor for his role in '' Swedish Wedding Night'' at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards. He won his second Guldbagge Best Actor award for ''

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'' at the 19th Guldbagge Awards in 1983. In 1960, Kulle married Louise Hermelin (born 1939), daughter of a cavalry captain, Baron Carl-Magnus Hermelin and Ann-Marie Sourander. They divorced in 1968. In 1976, Kulle married the actress Anne Nord. Kulle died in Gregersboda, Sweden in October 1997 of

bone cancer A bone tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue in bone, traditionally classified as noncancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant). Cancerous bone tumors usually originate from a cancer in another part of the body such as from lung, breast, thyro ...

Awards

Kulle received many awards throughout his whole career. In 1952, he was the second actor to be awarded the ''

Thaliapriset Thaliapriset (''Svenska Dagbladets Thaliapris'') is regarded to be one of Sweden's finest theatre awards (together with the Eugene O'Neill Award and The Gunn Wållgren Award) and is given annually to an actor, director or a theatre personality o ...

'' theatre award by the Swedish daily newspaper ''

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''. He was also awarded the ''Gösta Ekman-stipendiet'' award in 1954, an award established in 1939 in memory of the actor and theatre director

Gösta Ekman Hans Gösta Gustaf Ekman (; 28 July 1939 – 1 April 2017) was a Swedish actor, comedian, and director. Career Ekman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was the son of the director Hasse Ekman and Agneta (née Wrangel). Ekman represented t ...

Filmography

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