Magnus Schamyl Bauman was a Swedish

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 film director (in 1931-57).

Born in Vimmerby

Vimmerby

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, Småland

Småland

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. First studied law and modern languages at Uppsala University

Uppsala University

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. In 1917 he began to work with translating text lines for international silent films (to Swedish), which he did successful throughout the 1920s. In this way he watched many different films by some of the best silent film directors in the world which started an interest in filmmaking and in the arts of film. In 1929-30 he started the film company Europafilm

Europafilm

Europafilm was an influential Swedish film company established in 1929 by Schamyl Bauman and Gustaf Scheutz.The office was located at Kungsgatan in central Stockholm, while the film studio was located in Sundbyberg, northwest of Stockholm city...

 with Gustaf Scheutz where he made some of his early films as a director. He later started a company with the influential film personality and business man Anders Sandrew in 1939, AB Sandrew-Bauman Film, where he made his most successful films, among others his popular "Sickan Carlsson

Sickan Carlsson

Sickan Anna-Greta Carlsson was a Swedish film actress and singer.-Biography:From the 1930s–1950s, Carlsson was Sweden's most popular film actress and its highest paid, topping the salary of even the most popular male performer...

-films", where his most popular and critically praised film was the 1949 comedy Skolka skolan (Playing Truant) with Carlsson in the lead.

As a filmmaker he came to specialize in the comedy genre and made some of the best classic Swedish film comedies of those days.

Selected director filmography

• 1955 - Älskling på vågen
• 1954 - Dans på rosor (aka A Bed of Roses / Dance on Roses)
• 1952 - Klasskamrater (Classmates)
• 1952 - En fästman i taget (One Fiancé at a Time)
• 1951 - Puck heter jag
• 1950 - Frökens första barn
• 1950 - Min syster och jag (My Sister and I)
• 1949 - Skolka skolan (Playing Truant)
• 1947 - Maj på Malö'
• 1946 - Hotell Kåkbrinken
• 1945 - Flickorna i Småland (The Girls in Smaland)
• 1942 - Vi hemslavinnor (We Home Toilers)
• 1941 - Fröken Kyrkråtta
• 1941 - Magistrarna på sommarlov
  Magistrarna på sommarlov
  Magistrarna på sommarlov is a 1941 Swedish film directed by Schamyl Bauman and starring Alice Babs.- Cast :*Alice Babs*Karl-Arne Holmsten*Thor Modéen*Carl Hagman*Viran Rydkvist*John Botvid*Dagmar Ebbesen*Marianne Aminoff*Åke Johansson...
  
  
• 1940 - Swing it magistern
• 1940 - Vi tre
• 1939 - Hennes lilla majestät (Her Little Majesty)
• 1939 - Vi två (We Two)
• 1938 - Karriär
• 1937 - Häxnatten
• 1936 - Raggen - det är jag det
• 1934 - Kvinnorna kring Larsson (The Women Around Larsson)
• 1933 - Lördagskvällar (Saturday Nights)
• 1931 - Kärlek och landstorm

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