Jarl Lage Kulle (28 February 1927 – 3 October 1997) was a Swedish film and stage actor and director, and father of
Maria Kulle.
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
Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm as well as in a number of films, several of these directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoun ...
. 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
Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play.
The term most often refers to the ...
for his role in ''
Swedish Wedding Night
''Swedish Wedding Night'' ( sv, Bröllopsbesvär) is a 1964 Swedish drama film directed by Åke Falck. The film won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film and Jarl Kulle won the award for Best Actor at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards.
Cast
* Jarl Kulle a ...
'' at the
2nd Guldbagge Awards
The 2nd Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 1964 and 1965, and took place on 15 October 1965. ''Swedish Wedding Night'' directed by Åke Falck was presented with the award for Bes ...
.
He won his second Guldbagge Best Actor award for ''
Fanny and Alexander'' 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.
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 ''
Svenska Dagbladet
''Svenska Dagbladet'' (, "The Swedish Daily News"), abbreviated SvD, is a daily newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden.
History and profile
The first issue of ''Svenska Dagbladet'' appeared on 18 December 1884. During the beginning of the ...
''. 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 ...
.
Filmography
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1927 births
1997 deaths
20th-century Swedish male actors
Best Actor Bodil Award winners
Best Actor Guldbagge Award winners
Deaths from bone cancer
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Eugene O'Neill Award winners
People from Ängelholm Municipality
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