Anders de Wahl
Swedish postcard. Axel Eliassons Konstförlag, Stockholm, No. 350. Anders de Wahl in the stage play Äventyret aka Äfventyret by Valentin Le Barroyer, performed at the Dramaten theatre in Stockholm in 1915, under direction of Karl Hedberg. Photo Hofatelier Jaeger, 1915.
Anders de Wahl (1869-1956) was a very popular and prolific Swedish stage actor, who also had small but significant film career.
Anders de Wahl, whose name in the population register was always written as Andreas, was born 9 February 1869 in Stockholm. He was the son of music director Oscar de Wahl and actress and operetta singer Anna de Wahl, born Lundström. After employment at Wicanders cork factory offices, De Wahl was in 1889-91 student at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. In 1891-92 he was employed at August Lindberg’s theatre company, from 1892 to 1907 at Albert Ranft's theater company, and in 1907-19 at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. His repertory may have started with farces such as Charley’s Aunt (Djurgardsteatern, 1894), he soon became a major performer in August Strindberg’s plays, such as Mäster Olof (Vasateatern, 1897), Erik XIV (Svenskateatern, 1899), and Folkungasagan (Svenskateatern, 1900). From 1907 he was a regular actor at the Dramaten and this for many years, until 1951. At Dramaten he acted often with directors August Lindberg, Karl Hedberg, Tor Hedberg and Gustav Linden, and from the mid-1920s and well into the 1930s also with Olof Molander and, better known as film director, Alf Sjöberg. De Wahl also played as guest in Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki, and carried out tours on the Swedish provinces. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre mentions De Wahl was popular until the late 1920s, when the more natural style of Lars Hanson replaced his romantic, exuberant style. De Wahl excelled as personality actor, often performing troubled souls as Strindberg’s Erik XIV and his King Magnus. Though he opposed modernism in theatre, he did perform in plays by Pirandello such as Six Characters in in Search of an Author.
Anders de Wahl’s debut in film was in the Mauritz Stiller subversive tragicomedy Erotikon (1920) in which professor Leo Charpentier (De Wahl) and his wife Irene (Tora Teje) experiment with extramarital affairs. The film was based on a play by Hungarian writer Ferenc Herczeg and scripted by future film director Gustav Molander, Stiller and Arthur Nordén. Supporting actors were Karin Molander and Lars Hanson. In his second film Kvarnen (The Windmill, John W. Brunius 1921) De Wahl played a very different character as a miller who is lured and blinded by a seductive ‘tattare’ woman working at his farm. In 1925 De Wahl played in two more silent films, in Karin Swanström’s Flygande holländaren (The Flying Dutchman), scripted by Hjalmar Bergman and with German actor Werner Fuetterer co-acting, and the title role in Kalle Utter, again directed by Swanström and scripted by Bergman, and based on a novella by Swedish author August Blanche. His last film part was the lead in Edvin Adolphson’s drama Vad veta väl männen? (What Do Men Know Well?, 1933), the Swedish version of the German film Was wissen den Männer? (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1933).
For posterity, Anders de Wahl is inextricably linked with the title role in Hjalmar Bergman's comedy Markurells from Wadköbing (1930). Also for a long time Anders de Wahl read Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ring Out, Wild Bells on the radio at midnight on New Years Eve. Anders de Wahl died March 9, 1956 in Stockholm. He was unmarried and is buried in the Adolf Fredrik cemetery in Stockholm.
Sources: Swedish, Danish, German and English Wikipedia, IMDB, and Cambridge Guide to Theatre.
Anders de Wahl
Swedish postcard. Axel Eliassons Konstförlag, Stockholm, No. 350. Anders de Wahl in the stage play Äventyret aka Äfventyret by Valentin Le Barroyer, performed at the Dramaten theatre in Stockholm in 1915, under direction of Karl Hedberg. Photo Hofatelier Jaeger, 1915.
Anders de Wahl (1869-1956) was a very popular and prolific Swedish stage actor, who also had small but significant film career.
Anders de Wahl, whose name in the population register was always written as Andreas, was born 9 February 1869 in Stockholm. He was the son of music director Oscar de Wahl and actress and operetta singer Anna de Wahl, born Lundström. After employment at Wicanders cork factory offices, De Wahl was in 1889-91 student at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. In 1891-92 he was employed at August Lindberg’s theatre company, from 1892 to 1907 at Albert Ranft's theater company, and in 1907-19 at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. His repertory may have started with farces such as Charley’s Aunt (Djurgardsteatern, 1894), he soon became a major performer in August Strindberg’s plays, such as Mäster Olof (Vasateatern, 1897), Erik XIV (Svenskateatern, 1899), and Folkungasagan (Svenskateatern, 1900). From 1907 he was a regular actor at the Dramaten and this for many years, until 1951. At Dramaten he acted often with directors August Lindberg, Karl Hedberg, Tor Hedberg and Gustav Linden, and from the mid-1920s and well into the 1930s also with Olof Molander and, better known as film director, Alf Sjöberg. De Wahl also played as guest in Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki, and carried out tours on the Swedish provinces. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre mentions De Wahl was popular until the late 1920s, when the more natural style of Lars Hanson replaced his romantic, exuberant style. De Wahl excelled as personality actor, often performing troubled souls as Strindberg’s Erik XIV and his King Magnus. Though he opposed modernism in theatre, he did perform in plays by Pirandello such as Six Characters in in Search of an Author.
Anders de Wahl’s debut in film was in the Mauritz Stiller subversive tragicomedy Erotikon (1920) in which professor Leo Charpentier (De Wahl) and his wife Irene (Tora Teje) experiment with extramarital affairs. The film was based on a play by Hungarian writer Ferenc Herczeg and scripted by future film director Gustav Molander, Stiller and Arthur Nordén. Supporting actors were Karin Molander and Lars Hanson. In his second film Kvarnen (The Windmill, John W. Brunius 1921) De Wahl played a very different character as a miller who is lured and blinded by a seductive ‘tattare’ woman working at his farm. In 1925 De Wahl played in two more silent films, in Karin Swanström’s Flygande holländaren (The Flying Dutchman), scripted by Hjalmar Bergman and with German actor Werner Fuetterer co-acting, and the title role in Kalle Utter, again directed by Swanström and scripted by Bergman, and based on a novella by Swedish author August Blanche. His last film part was the lead in Edvin Adolphson’s drama Vad veta väl männen? (What Do Men Know Well?, 1933), the Swedish version of the German film Was wissen den Männer? (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1933).
For posterity, Anders de Wahl is inextricably linked with the title role in Hjalmar Bergman's comedy Markurells from Wadköbing (1930). Also for a long time Anders de Wahl read Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ring Out, Wild Bells on the radio at midnight on New Years Eve. Anders de Wahl died March 9, 1956 in Stockholm. He was unmarried and is buried in the Adolf Fredrik cemetery in Stockholm.
Sources: Swedish, Danish, German and English Wikipedia, IMDB, and Cambridge Guide to Theatre.