Åke Falck

Biography

Åke Falck (3 April 1925 – 12 October 1974) was a Swedish film director. He directed 13 films between 1958 and 1972. His 1966 film The Princess was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. He married in 1949 the singer Brita Nordström (1925–2005) with whom he had a son Peter Emanuel Falck in 1952. In 1960 he remarried to the TV producer Karin Sohlman and had a daughter Carolina Falck in 1961. Åke Falck was buried on 12 November 1974 at Djursholm's cemetery in the municipality of Danderyd. Åke Falcks Gata in the Torp district of Gothenburg was named after him in 2011.

Known For

Girl with Hyacinths

as Man in Körner's studio

The Die Is Cast

as Jerk Domare

Swedish Wedding Night

as Speaker (voice)

The Firebird

as Spinky

Året var 1974

as Self (archive footage)

Viking Settlement in the Jet Age: A Film About Östergötland

Where the Herring and Bathers Flock

Petter's and Lotta's Christmas

as Narrator (voice)