Film and theater director Jonas Cornell has died after a short illness, writes DN.
He lived to be 83 years old.
Jonas Cornell began his career as a film and literary critic.
The feature film debut "Kiss and hug" from 1967 was a black-and-white relationship comedy with, among others, Sven-Bertil Taube and Agneta Ekmanner in the cast.
Both artistic and broad
Jonas Cornell made a film of PC-Jersild's novels The Pig Hunt and "Babel's House".
He also made a television film of Birgitta Stenberg's The Orange Man and Jonas Gardell's "A comedian's upbringing".
Cornell was both an artistic and broad director.
In the 1989 short film Salto Mortal, a young Richard Wolf climbs up and down a trampoline and backslides out of a coffin.
In the forgotten film Real Men Always Wear Ties from 1991, Micke "Svullo" Dubois uses Coca Cola instead of toothpaste.
Wrote Beck script
Jonas Cornell wrote the scripts for several of the Beck films starring Gösta Ekman, and also collaborated with Ekman in Varning för Jönssonliganfrån from 1981, the first in the film series about Sickan and his cronies.
Jonas Cornell's last production before retirement was "Linné and his apostles" from 2004.