Jan Malmsjö


Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö is a Swedish stage and film actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and father to Jonas Malmsjö.

Biography

Malmsjö was born in Lund, Sweden. He trained at the prestigious Dramatens elevskola during 1950-53 and one of his first parts on the national stage was as Paris in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
He appeared in two episodes of the WWII drama Combat! in 1966, first on the fourth season episode "Sudden Terror" as Bruener and secondly on the fifth season episode "The Chapel at Able Five" as Captain Krauss.
Malmsjö has a great range as an actor from the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Reverent Manders in Ibsen's Ghosts to Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady and leading roles in other musicals such as La Cage aux Folles and Victor/Victoria. He has also cut several music records in his native Sweden. In the musical world, his Swedish language recording of "Willkommen"; Välkomna till Cabaret is considered a masterpiece and treasure on CD.
He has filmed sporadically: one of his most famous film parts is as the Bishop Edvard Vergérus in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. One of his more recent stage parts was as The Captain in Strindberg's The Dance of Death in the 1993 Dramaten-production, directed by Lars Norén.
He also voiced Lumiere in the Swedish dub of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
Malmsjö is still as active as ever and in the summer of 2017, aged 85, was rehearsing the title role of Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. In early 2019, he was one of the contestants for Sweden's selection for the Eurovision Song Contest; last time he appeared in the show had been fifty years before.
Malmsjö is married to actress and colleague of the Royal Dramatic Theatre; Marie Göranzon. His son, Jonas Malmsjö, is also an actor.
In December, 2007, Malmsjö participated in the Swedish reality show Stjärnorna på slottet, at Trolleholm Castle, along with Peter Stormare, Arja Saijonmaa, Britt Ekland and Magnus Härenstam.
He participated in Melodifestivalen 2019 with the song "Leva Livet".

Selected filmography

Photographs