Ragnar Widestedt

{{Short description|Swedish actor and director}} {{Infobox person | name = Ragnar Widestedt | image = File:Widestedt, Ragnar i Hela världen 4 1918.jpg | image_size = | caption = Widestedt in a 1918 magazine | birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|05|03|df=yes}} | birth_place = Njurunda, Sweden | death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|02|04|1887|05|03|df=yes}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | other_names = | occupation = Actor, director, singer, composer | years_active = 1916–1951 (film) }} '''Ragnar Widestedt''' (3 May 1887 – 4 February 1954) was a Swedish stage and film actor, singer, composer and occasional film director.<ref>Soila p.35</ref><ref>Freiburg p.106</ref>

==Selected filmography== thumb|240px|Widestedt (left) in a 1919 film * ''House Slaves'' (1923) * ''Skipper's Love'' (1931) * ''A Night of Love by the Öresund'' (1931) * ''Tired Theodore'' (1931) * ''Lucky Devils'' (1932) * ''Secret Svensson'' (1933) * ''House Slaves'' (1933) * ''Kanske en gentleman'' (1935) * ''The Marriage Game'' (1935) * ''Adventure in Pyjamas'' (1935) * ''The Ghost of Bragehus'' (1936) * ''The Andersson Family'' (1937) * ''Adolf Strongarm'' (1937) * ''Career'' (1938) * ''A Cruise in the Albertina'' (1938) * ''Comrades in Uniform'' (1938) * ''Emilie Högquist'' (1939) * ''Mot nya tider'' (1939) * ''The Three of Us'' (1940) * ''Heroes in Yellow and Blue'' (1940) * ''The Crazy Family'' (1940) * ''Lärarinna på vift'' (1941) * ''How to Tame a Real Man'' (1941) * ''Only a Woman'' (1941) *''Lucky Young Lady'' (1941) * ''The Train Leaves at Nine'' (1941) * ''Life Goes On'' (1941) * ''Tomorrow's Melody'' (1942) * ''It Is My Music'' (1942) * ''Dangerous Ways'' (1942) * ''She Thought It Was Him'' (1943) * ''Gentleman with a Briefcase'' (1943) * ''Mister Collins' Adventure'' (1943) * ''A Girl for Me'' (1943) * ''My People Are Not Yours'' (1944) * ''Between Brothers'' (1946)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Freiburg, Jeanne Ellen. ''Regulatory Bodies: Gendered Visions of the State in German and Swedish Cinema''. University of Minnesota, 1994. * Soila, Tytti. ''The Cinema of Scandinavia''. Wallflower Press, 2005.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0927104}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Widestedt, Ragnar}} Category:1887 births Category:1954 deaths Category:Swedish film directors Category:Swedish male film actors Category:Swedish male silent film actors Category:Swedish male stage actors Category:20th-century Swedish male actors Category:20th-century Swedish male singers Category:Swedish male composers Category:People from Njurunda Category:Musicians from Västernorrland County