Folke Sundquist
Folke Sundquist (* November 4, 1925 in Falun, † January 13, 2009 in Malmö) was a Swedish actor.
Life
Sundquist was born in central Sweden situated in the vicinity of the lake Runn mining town of Falun. After secondary school he graduated from in the early 1940s as an actor training at the Drama School of the Municipal Theatre Gothenburg ( Göteborgs Stadsteater ). There he was in 1947 also his stage debut as a theater actor. In September 1947, he played there in the new production of August Strindberg's drama A Dream Play. He has also performed at the Gothenburg City Theatre in the play Hans nads Wills ( The Testament of his grace ) by Hjalmar Bergman on; his partner in this piece was at that time the young actress Ulla Jacobsson.
1950 Sundquist was engaged at the City Theatre Malmö (Malmö Stadsteater ); this theater he remained in the following thirty years of his career on stage together. As an actor, Sundquist interpreting a wide repertoire that plays by William Shakespeare, the Scandinavian theater turn of the century, but also included pieces of the Modern and contemporary theater. Sundquist played both roles in the serious professional as well as in comedies; occasional trips he took to the operetta and musicals.
He joined, among others, in Twelfth Night, Andromache, The Lady of the Camellias ( 1956 as Armand Duval with Inga Tigblad in the title role), in the comedies invitation to the palace and The Orchestra by Jean Anouilh, in the comedy The School for Scandal ( Skandalskolan ) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and in the musicals My Fair Lady and Irma la Douce on. In 1954, he played under the direction of Ingmar Bergman students in Strindberg's chamber play The Ghost Sonata. In 1955, he was the narrator (death) in Bergman's one-act play Trämålning, the nucleus of Bergman's later film The Seventh Seal. In 1958 the role of Sune in Sagan by Hjalmar Bergman Bergman's direction. In Ingmar Bergman's Director Sundquist played in 1958 the Valentin in Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He also took over in 1958 Bergman directed to Erik in the popular play Värmlänningarna by Fredrik August Dahlgren ( 1816-1895 ). In 1983, he finished at the City Theatre Malmö his acting career with the title role in Molière's comedy Tartuffe.
Sundquist also worked for the film and television. Between 1951 and 1968, the end of his film career, he turned about twenty theatrical and television films; thereafter, Sundquist devoted exclusively to his career as a stage actor. Was discovered for the film Sundquist from the Swedish director Arne Mattsson at a performance of Hans nads wills in Gothenburg. He occupied Sundquist and then Jacobsson for his film drama She danced one summer ( 1951). Sundquist played in the high school graduates Göran Stendahl, who falls in love during the summer vacation in the countryside in the peasant girl Kerstin. A brief love scene, completely naked to see in the Sundquist and Jacobsson, were caused quite a stir.
Under Mattsson Director, he also sung the student Torben Altman in the romantic drama It happened from hot young love (1952 ), a prison population in the film drama The Bread of Love ( 1953) and the businessman Christer Berg in his last film, Bamse (1968), in he was again seen together with Ulla Jacobsson. For the cinema he also worked with Ingmar Bergman. In the film drama Wild Strawberries (1957 ) he played the hitchhiker Anders and was one of the admirers of the film character Sarah.
After the end of his career, Sundquist devoted in the 1980s humanitarian projects, including in Greece. Sundquist died after a brief illness at the age of 83 years.