Elsa Ebbesen

{{Short description|Swedish actress (1890–1977)}} {{Infobox person | name = Elsa Ebbesen | image = File:Ebbesen Landahl.jpg | image_size = | caption = Ebbesen on stage with Otto Landahl c.1930 | birth_date = 7 July 1890 | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = 21 December 1977 (aged 87) | death_place = Täby, Sweden | birth_name = Elsa Gerda Ebbesen | other_names = Elsa Ebbesen-Thornblad | occupation = Actress | relatives = Dagmar Ebbesen (siser) | years_active = 1906-1975 }} '''Elsa Ebbesen''' (7 July 1890 – 21 December 1977) was a Swedish stage and film actress.<ref>Steene p.294</ref><ref>Paietta p.139</ref> A character actress she appeared in Swedish films and later television programmes over the course of several decades.

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''House Slaves'' (1923) * ''Ulla, My Ulla'' (1930) * ''Adventure'' (1936) * ''Emilie Högquist'' (1939) * ''The Crazy Family'' (1940) * ''The Three of Us'' (1940) * ''The Fight Continues'' (1941) * ''Goransson's Boy'' (1941) * ''Only a Woman'' (1941) * ''Första divisionen'' (1941) * ''Goransson's Boy'' (1941) * ''Lucky Young Lady'' (1941) * ''Katrina'' (1943) * ''Prince Gustaf'' (1944) * ''The People of Hemsö'' (1944) * ''The Bells of the Old Town'' (1946) * ''Crime in the Sun'' (1947) * ''Dynamite'' (1947) * ''How to Love'' (1947) * ''The Quartet That Split Up'' (1950) * ''Defiance'' (1952) * ''Love'' (1952) * ''Say It with Flowers'' (1952) * ''Stupid Bom'' (1953) * ''The Glass Mountain'' (1953) * ''Storm Over Tjurö'' (1954) * ''Sir Arne's Treasure'' (1954) * ''Young Summer'' (1954) * ''The Unicorn'' (1955) * ''Egen ingång'' (1956) *''Seventh Heaven'' (1956) * ''Night Child'' (1956) * ''The Minister of Uddarbo'' (1957) * ''A Guest in His Own House'' (1957) * ''The Jazz Boy'' (1958) * ''Crime in Paradise'' (1959) * ''Winter Light'' (1963) * ''Morianna'' (1965) * ''The Touch'' (1971) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Paietta, Ann C. ''Teachers in the Movies: A Filmography of Depictions of Grade School, Preschool and Day Care Educators, 1890s to the Present''. McFarland, 2007. * Steene, Birgitta. ''Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide''. Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0247955}}

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