Education
Uppsala University.
Actor director screenwriter writer
Uppsala University.
He is best known for his collaboration with Hans Alfredson in the comedy duo Hasse & Tage. After graduation from Katedralskolan in Linköping, Danielsson matriculated at the University of Uppsala in 1949. After graduation, Tage Danielsson found work at Sveriges Radio in 1955.
From 1959 to 1962 he was the manager for its entertainment department.
At his work he came in contact with Hans Alfredson. They started the entertainment production company Bachelor of Arts Svenska Ord together in 1961.
He was also a constant campaigner behind the scene for causes ranging from Anti-Apartheid to Anti-Nuclear to social solidarity, he was also a regular contributor to the anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Arbetaren. In 1980 he received an honorary doctorate at Linköping University.
His death in 1985 was from skin cancer (Malignant melanoma).
A statue of him can be seen just outside the grounds of his old school. In 1985, his film Ronia, the Robber"s Daughter was entered into the 35th Berlin International Festival.
There he got involved in student theatre of Östgöta Nation and became a member of the Juvenalorden, as well as serving as vice president of the Uppsala Student Union.
