Lasse Hallström

Lasse Hallström was born in Stockholm on 2 June 1946, the son of a dentist who was an amateur filmmaker and of the poet Karin Lyberg. While still at secondary school, he had one of his short films broadcast by Swedish television, for which he then worked as a director, cameraman and editor. He directed almost all of Abba's music videos, then his first feature films from 1975. Settled in the United States in the early nineties, he made most of his films there and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.

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• CinemaMy Life as a DogMitt liv som hundLasse Hallström · 1985Cinema