Kjell Grede

Kjell Grede was born in Bromma, in Stockholm, on 12 August 1936. A graduate of Stockholm University, he was a teacher of disabled children, a journalist, a writer and a painter before coming to cinema as a screenwriter in 1961. He directed nine films between 1967 and 2003, sat in 1968 on the commission of inquiry into the cinema, and headed the Dramatiska institutet from 1992 to 2001. Married to the actress Bibi Andersson from 1960 to 1973, he died on 15 December 2017, aged eighty-one.

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• CinemaHugo and JosephineHugo och JosefinKjell Grede · 1967Cinema