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Son of Gösta Ekman and Greta Ekman.

Father of Gösta Ekman, Krister Ekman, Mikael Ekman and Stefan Ekman with Agneta Wrangel.

Father of Fam Ekman with Eva Henning.

Retired in Spain (1996)

Hasse Ekman was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.

His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths), a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment.

Over the years, Ekman had built up a large art collection, which he sold when he and his third wife, Tutta Rolf, moved to Spain's sunny coast in 1964, where he lived until his death at the age of 88.

Ekman was also a devoted AIK supporter (a Swedish sports association that was founded at Norrmalm) , which appeared in many of his works.

Ekman was also active in the theatre, as director of several theater comedies, wrote three of his own plays and directed three of Karl Gerhard's revues (1946, 1957 and 1959).

His 1957 film Summer Place Wanted was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.

Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director from the period after Sjöström and Stiller and prior to Ingmar Bergman, peaking between the mid-1940s and 1950.

He was greatly influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films.

As an actor Ekman appeared in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in three early Ingmar Bergman films (Prison, Thirst and Sawdust and Tinsel).

He played opposite his famous father in Intermezzo, the original Swedish 1936 film starring Ingrid Bergman as the female lead.

Hasse Ekman is part of the prominent "Ekman acting family" in Sweden: He was the son of Swedish star actor Gösta Ekman (senior) and father of actor Gösta Ekman (junior), actor Stefan Ekman and stage/film director Mikael Ekman. He is the grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman.