Åke Falck
film director (1925-1974)
Åke Falck (3 April 1925 – 12 October 1974) was a Swedish film director. He directed 13 films between 1958 and 1972. His 1966 film The Princess was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
He married in 1949 the singer Brita Nordström (1925–2005) with whom he had a son Peter Emanuel Falck in 1952. In 1960 he remarried to the TV producer Karin Sohlman and had a daughter Carolina Falck in 1961.
Åke Falck was buried on 12 November 1974 at Djursholm's cemetery in the municipality of Danderyd. Åke Falcks Gata in the Torp district of Gothenburg was named after him in 2011.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1106547. VIAF identifies the subject as 5138667. The Library of Congress control number is no2008093228. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925, 1974, 1958 and 1972.
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