Sam Ask

Sam Ask
Born	16 October 1878 Klippan, Scania, Sweden
Died	15 July 1937 (aged 58) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation(s)	Writer, Actor
Years active	1916–1935 (film)

Sam Ask (16 October 1878 – 15 July 1937) was a Swedish screenwriter and actor.^[1] He also directed the 1928 silent comedy film Erik XIV.

Ask was a long-time student at Lund University, and enrolled as a law student in 1897 although he never graduated before he formally ended his university studies in 1909.

Selected filmography

• Kiss of Death (1916)
• The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
• Synnöve Solbakken (1919)
• A Dangerous Wooing (1919)
• Robinson i skärgården (1920)
• Thora van Deken (1920)
• The Mill (1921)
• A Wild Bird (1921)
• A Fortune Hunter (1921)
• The Eyes of Love (1922)
• The Suitor from the Highway (1923)
• Iron Wills (1923)
• House Slaves (1923)
• Little Dorrit (1924)
• Charley's Aunt (1926)
• The Devil and the Smalander (1927)
• Erik XIV (1928)
• The Girl from Värmland (1931)
• Adventure in Pyjamas (1935)

References

1. Glavin p.211

Bibliography

• Glavin, John. Dickens on Screen. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

External links

• Sam Ask at IMDb