Franz Malmsten (6 November 1905

Narva Narva, russian: Нарва is a municipality and city in Estonia. It is located in Ida-Viru County, Ida-Viru county, at the Extreme points of Estonia, eastern extreme point of Estonia, on the west bank of the Narva (river), Narva river which ...

– 6 February 1967

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n actor. From 1925 to 1937 he worked at the Narva Theatre. From 1937 to 1967 he worked at Estonian Drama Theatre. He participated also on operas and operettas, and he also acted in films.

Awards

* 1964: Estonian SSR merited artist

Personal life

He was married to actress

Eva Meil Eva Meil (beginning in 1940, Eva Malmsten; 11 September 1917 Tallinn – 10 January 2002 Tallinn) was an Estonian actress. Meil began her stage career at age ten in the role of Young Tiina in a production of August Kitzberg's ''Libahunt''. Meil gr ...

. His grandchild is the actor

Mait Malmsten Mait Malmsten (born 6 September 1972 in Viljandi) is an Estonian actor. Malmsten comes from a family of actors. His father is actor Rein Malmsten. His paternal grandparents were actors Franz Malmsten and Eva Meil. His great-uncle was actor Hugo ...

Filmography

* 1951: "

Valgus Koordis ''Valgus Koordis'' (''Light in Koordi'') is a 1951 Soviet-Estonian drama film directed by Herbert Rappaport and based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Hans Leberecht. Awards, nominations, participations: * 1952: Stalin Prize (USSR), recipie ...

" (feature film; in the role: Janson) * 1956: "Tagahoovis" * 1957: "Pöördel" * 1960: "Näitleja Joller" * 1965: "Külmale maale" * 1965: "Me olime 18-aastased" * 1970: "Valge laev"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malmsten, Franz 1905 births 1967 deaths Estonian male stage actors Estonian male film actors 20th-century Estonian male actors People from Narva Soviet male actors