August Warberg

{{Short description|Swedish actor (1842–1915)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = August Warberg.jpg | image_size = | image_caption = Warberg in 1865 | name = August Warberg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1842|5|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Glava, Arvika Municipality, Värmland, Sweden | birth_name = Johan August Warberg | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|10|16|1842|5|5|df=yes}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | other_names = | occupation = Actor, theater director | years_active = 1861–1915 | spouse = Anna Sofia Charlotta Warberg (''née'' Magnusson) }}

'''Johan August Warberg''' (5 May 1842 – 16 October 1915)<ref name=sfi>[http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=57690 The Swedish Film Institute.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610032250/http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=57690 |date=10 June 2016 }} Retrieved 16 May 2016.</ref> was a Swedish stage and film actor and theater director whose career spanned over fifty years.

Warberg made his stage debut as an actor in 1861.<ref name=sfi/> During his long career as a stage actor and theater director, he worked the Vasateatern, Mindre teatern, Djurgårdsteatern, Södra teatern and the Svenska Teatern.<ref name="Svenskt porträttgalleri">Hildebrand, Albin. ''Svenskt porträttgalleri ... vol. 21.'' H. W. Tullberg, 1897. p. 121.</ref>

He married stage actress Anna Sofia Charlotta "Lotten" Warberg (''née'' Magnusson) in 1865 and the couple had three children.<ref name="Svenskt porträttgalleri"/> Before his death at age 73 in 1915, he also appeared in a number of silent films. All but one, 1916's Edmond Hansen-directed ''Ålderdom och dårskap'', were directed by Victor Sjöström.<ref name=sfi/>

==Selected filmography== *''Hearts That Meet'' (Swedish: ''Hjärtan som mötas'') (1914) *''Guilt Redeemed'' (Swedish: ''Sonad skuld'') (1915) *''The Ships That Meet'' (Swedish: ''Skepp som mötas'') (1916, released posthumously)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0911286|August Warberg}}

Category:1842 births Category:1915 deaths Category:Swedish male stage actors Category:Swedish male film actors Category:Swedish male silent film actors Category:People from Arvika Municipality Category:19th-century Swedish male actors Category:20th-century Swedish male actors Category:Actors from Värmland County