Lars Hanson

Biography

Lars Mauritz Hanson was a Swedish film and stage actor born in Göteborg, Sweden on July 26, 1886. He studied drama in Helsinki and Stockholm before making his film debut in the 1915 film Dolken. Hanson gained international recognition for his role as Gösta Berlings saga (1923) and later starred alongside Lillian Gish in The Scandal of Silence (1927).