Eric Bengtson

{{Short description|Swedish composer}} {{Infobox person | name = Eric Bengtson | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1897|7|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Norra Vram, Skåne län, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|4|6|1897|7|31|df=y}} | death_place = Sweden | other_names = | occupation = Composer | years_active = 1930–1944 (film) }} '''Eric Bengtson''' (31 July 1897 – 6 April 1948) was a Swedish composer who worked on many film scores.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/bengtsson-eric/|title=Eric Bengtson (1897−1948)|website=Swedish Musical Heritage|access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref> In 1938 he composed the music for the Ingrid Bergman film ''A Woman's Face'' (1938).<ref>Toila p.262</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Cavaliers of the Crown'' (1930) * ''Frida's Songs'' (1930) * ''The Red Day'' (1931) * ''Colourful Pages'' (1931) * ''Servant's Entrance'' (1932) * ''Love and Deficit'' (1932) * ''People of Hälsingland'' (1933) * ''Two Men and a Widow'' (1933) * ''Boman's Boy'' (1933) * ''Simon of Backabo'' (1934) * ''Andersson's Kalle'' (1934) * ''Fired'' (1934) * ''Walpurgis Night'' (1935) * ''Ocean Breakers'' (1935) * ''Johan Ulfstjerna'' (1936) * ''It Pays to Advertise'' (1936) * ''The Family Secret'' (1936) * ''Russian Flu'' (1937) * ''John Ericsson, Victor of Hampton Roads'' (1937) * ''Conflict'' (1937) * ''Hotel Paradise'' (1937) * ''Thunder and Lightning'' (1938) * ''A Woman's Face'' (1938) * ''Art for Art's Sake'' (1938) * ''Dollar'' (1938) * ''The Great Love'' (1938) * ''Styrman Karlssons flammor'' (1938) * ''Only One Night'' (1939) * ''I Am Fire and Air'' (1944)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Soila, Tytti. ''The Cinema of Scandinavia''. Wallflower Press, 2005.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0005960}}

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