Jan Malmsjö
Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö is a Swedish stage and film actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and is the father of Jonas Malmsjö.
Biography
Malmsjö was born in Lund, Sweden. 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 Romeo and Juliet.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 Hamlet and Reverent Manders in Ibsen's Ghosts to Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady 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 is well known.
He has filmed sporadically: one of his most famous film parts is as the Bishop Edvard Vergérus in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. 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.
He also voiced Lumiere in the Swedish dub of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
In December 2007, Malmsjö participated in the Swedish reality show Stjärnorna på slottet, 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 Samuel Beckett, at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. In early 2019, he was one of the contestants for Sweden's selection for the Eurovision Song Contest; 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.Awards
In 1972, Malmsjö was awarded Svenska DagbladetSelected filmography
- 1959 – '
- 1959 – Pojken Winslow
- 1960 – The Die Is Cast
- 1960 – Mälarpirater
- 1962 – The Lady in White
- 1963 – Hide and Seek
- 1964 – Älskande par
- 1966 – Torn Curtain – Swedish Photographer
- 1973 – Scenes from a Marriage
- 1975 – Släpp fångarne loss, det är vår!
- 1980 – Marmalade Revolution
- 1982 – Fanny and Alexander
- 1986 – Peter the Great
- 1986 – '
- 1987 – Jim & Piraterna Blom
- 1993 – Drömkåken
- 1996 – Dödsdansen
- 1997 – Jag är din krigare
- 1998 – Den tatuerade änkan
- 2006 – ' – Walter
- 2006 – Beck – Den japanska shungamålningen – Ernst Levendahl
- 2007 – ' – Eckelstein
- 2013 – – Axel Frankel