Carl Allan Rudolf Schulman (15 September 1919 – 12 July 2003) was a Swedish and Swedish-speaking Finnish journalist and

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Life and career

Carl Allan Rudolf Schulman was born on 15 September 1919 in

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, to Carl Allan Morgan Schulman and Tyyni Ilta Helena Schulman (née Krank). He worked as journalist and managing editor at different

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newspapers and local radio stations in Finland between 1941 and 1951, and as producer at

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between 1950 and 1953. In 1953, he moved to

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to work at

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, where he first served as producer and from 1958 as managing producer. As producer he produced Frukostklubben with

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as host. Between 1962 and 1965, he worked as TV producer. During the following years he worked as director of communications at the Swedish

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. Between 1967 and 1984, he worked at

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as producer for

Kvitt eller dubbelt ''Kvitt eller dubbelt'' — ''Tiotusenkronorsfrågan'' (literally: ''Double or Nothing – The 10,000 Kronor Question'') was a Swedish game show based on the American version called ''The $64,000 Question''. It was the first game show to be broad ...

Hylands hörna ''Hylands hörna'' ("Hyland's corner") was a Swedish talk show presented by Lennart Hyland. Broadcast between 1962 and 1983, it was the first talk show in Sweden. The show started as a radio program on 10 October 1961. It moved to television in ...

and more. Schulman also a played a role in the 1982 film

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directed by

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. He was editor in chief for the Jewish magazine Menorah. Schulman was married to the journalist Eva Lilian Enneli Tawaststjerna (1925–2012) between 1945 and 1974 and together they had four children, Jannecke, Leif, Micaela and Annika (married Åslund). In 1974, he married the journalist Astrid Maria Elisabet "Lisette" Stolpe and together they had three children, Niklas,

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and Calle. Schulman died on 12 July 2003 in

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, aged 83.

References

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