Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö (born 29 May 1932) is a Swedish stage and film

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, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and is the father of Jonas Malmsjö.

Biography

Malmsjö was born in

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. He trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1950 to 1953 and one of his first parts on the national stage was as Paris in Shakespeare's ''

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'' (1953). He appeared in two episodes of the World War II drama '' Combat!'' in 1966, first on the fourth season episode "Sudden Terror" as Bruener and secondly on the fifth season episode "The Chapel at Able Five" as Captain Krauss. In the same year he played Ilya W. Vorchek in the episode "Agent of the East" of the World War II espionage series '' Blue Light''. Malmsjö has a great range as an actor from the title role in Shakespeare's ''

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'' ( Royal Dramatic Theatre, 1974) and Reverent Manders in

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's ''

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'' to Henry Higgins in ''

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'' and leading roles in other musicals such as ''La Cage aux Folles'' and ''Victor/Victoria''. He has also cut several music records in his native Sweden. His Swedish language recording of "Willkommen"; ''Välkomna till Cabaret'' (from Malmö City Theatre's successful production of ''

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'' 1970; where Malmsjö played the part of Emcee) is well known. He has filmed sporadically: one of his most famous film parts is as the ''Bishop Edvard Vergérus'' in

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'' (1982). One of his more recent stage parts was as The Captain in Strindberg's '' The Dance of Death'' in the 1993 Royal Dramatic Theatre production, directed by Lars Norén (adapted for TV in 1996). He also voiced Lumiere in the Swedish dub of

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's '' Beauty and the Beast''. In December 2007, Malmsjö participated in the Swedish reality show '' Stjärnorna på slottet'' (''Stars at the Castle''), at Trolleholm Castle, along with Peter Stormare, Arja Saijonmaa, Britt Ekland and Magnus Härenstam. He participated in Melodifestivalen 2019 with the song "Leva Livet". Malmsjö was still acting as recently as 2017 at the age of 85, when he was rehearsing the title role of '' Krapp's Last Tape'' by

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, at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. In early 2019, he was one of the contestants (in a preparatory heat) for Sweden's selection for the

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; last time he appeared in the show had been fifty years before.

Personal life

Malmsjö is married to actress and colleague of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Marie Göranzon. His son, Jonas Malmsjö, is also an actor (and acted opposite his father in

's staging of '' The Ghost Sonata'' by

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, in 2000).

Awards

In 1972, Malmsjö was awarded ''

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'''s Thalia Prize. He was awarded the Litteris et Artibus and Illis quorum in 1986 and the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1988. He received the Guldmasken in 1997, 1999, 2004, and 2009.

Selected filmography

* 1959 – ' (a.k.a. The Imaginary Invalid) (TV theatre) * 1959 – '' Pojken Winslow'' (a.k.a.

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) (TV theatre) * 1960 – '' The Die Is Cast'' * 1960 – '' Mälarpirater'' (aka, ''Pirates on the Malonen'') * 1962 – '' The Lady in White'' * 1963 – '' Hide and Seek'' * 1964 – '' Älskande par'' (aka, ''Loving Couples'') * 1966 – '' Torn Curtain'' (in final scene of this Hitchcock movie) – Swedish Photographer (uncredited) * 1973 – '' Scenes from a Marriage'' * 1975 – '' Släpp fångarne loss, det är vår!'' * 1980 – '' Marmalade Revolution'' * 1982 – ''

'' * 1986 – ''

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'' (miniseries) * 1986 – ' (mini series) * 1987 – '' Jim & Piraterna Blom'' (a.k.a. ''Jim and the Pirates'') * 1993 – '' Drömkåken'' (a.k.a. The Dream House) * 1996 – '' Dödsdansen'' (TV-theatre, SVT) * 1997 – '' Jag är din krigare'' * 1998 – '' Den tatuerade änkan'' (TV) * 2006 – ' – Walter * 2006 – '' Beck – Den japanska shungamålningen'' – Ernst Levendahl * 2007 – ' – Eckelstein * 2013 – ' (2013) – Axel Frankel

Singles

Photographs

Jan Malmsjö as Hummel in Strindberg's "Ghost Sonata", directed by Ingmar Bergman (2000; left Gunnel Lindblom as The Mummy)

Jan Malmsjö in the 1970s

Jan Malmsjö – 2001 portrait

Jan Malmsjö as Manders in "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen (left: Pernilla August as Mrs. Alving)

Photo from Dramaten.se

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malmsjo, Jan 1932 births Eugene O'Neill Award winners Litteris et Artibus recipients Living people Male actors from Lund Swedish male film actors Swedish male musical theatre actors Swedish male singers Swedish male television actors Recipients of the Illis quorum Musicians from Skåne County