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Roy Andersson

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Swedish film director and screenwriter

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Roy Andersson is a Swedish male artist who began his professional career in 1969. Born on March 31, 1943, he is associated with the musical genres of ballad, folk, musical, pop, and rock. His official website is maintained at royandersson.com.

According to Open Library records, Andersson is the author of two works, including *Lyckad nedfrysning av herr Moro* and *Vår tids rädsla för allvar*. Crossref data indicates a total of five works attributed to him. On Last.fm, his music has been played 680 times by 56 listeners.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1943
Works
2

Top works

  • Lyckad nedfrysning av herr Moro
  • Vår tids rädsla för allvar

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Sweden
Active from
1946-12-16
balladfolkmusicalpoprock

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
56
Total plays
680

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Roy+Andersson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Roy Andersson

Key facts

Born
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson , ( 1943-03-31 ) 31 March 1943 (age 83) , Uddevalla , Sweden
Occupation
Film director
Years active
1967–present

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival.

Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). Anderson received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. His other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roy Andersson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.