Knut Almlöf (9 February 1829

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– 3 January 1899, Almnäs, Gripsholm), was a Swedish stage actor. He was an elite actors of the

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and one of the most famed actors of his time in Sweden.

Life

Almlöf was the son of the actors

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and Brita Catharina Cederberg. He had an early enthusiasm to become an actor. His father, one of his country's most famous actors, did not want him to become an actor, and sent him to be educated by a priest in Uppsala. His mother died when he was nine, and the year after, his father remarried the celebrated Charlotta Ficker of the

. She encouraged Knut in his interest for the theatre, and after his graduation in 1848, they convinced his father about his preference. In 1851, he joined the troupe of

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, where he married his colleague

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. He was employed at the theatre ''

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'' in Stockholm in 1861, and in the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1863. He was regarded as having a natural way of acting and was referred to as a genius in comedy. In 1874–77, he was joint principal of the

Royal Dramatic Training Academy The Royal Dramatic Training Academy ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teaterns Elevskola, also known as ''Dramatens elevskola''), was the acting school of Sweden's national stage, the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and for many years (1787–1964) seen as the f ...

with his wife. He took the death of his wife in 1882 very hard and retired from the theatre, but continued to act as a guest artist until 1897.

References

Kungliga Dramatiska teatern

{{DEFAULTSORT:Almlof, Knut 19th-century Swedish male actors Swedish male stage actors 1829 births 1899 deaths Drama teachers