Arne Mattsson

Arne Mattsson was born in Uppsala on 2 December 1919. He began in cinema as an editor, assistant and screenwriter, was hired as a director by the Lux company in 1944, then worked for Svensk Filmindustri, Nordisk Tonefilm and Sandrews. He made some sixty feature films, more than any other Swedish director of the sound era, and was often called the Swedish Hitchcock. He was married from 1956 to 1965 to the actress Elsa Prawitz, who appeared in many of his films. He died in Stockholm in June 1995.

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• CinemaOne Summer of HappinessHon dansade en sommarArne Mattsson · 1951Cinema