Knut Almlöf, was a Swedish actor, considered to one of the most notable actors on the Swedish stage in the second half of the 19th century.

He was the son of the actors Nils Almlöf

Nils Almlöf

Nils Vilhelm Almlöf, was a Swedish actor, considered as one of the most famous in the 19th century, called "The Swedish Talma".Child of a court servant, Nils Almlöf, he interrupted his medical studies to study singing under Craelius of the Royal Swedish Opera, where he was successful as Leicester...

 and Brita Catharina Cederberg (died 1838), and had an early enthusiasm to become an actor. His father, one of his country's most famous actors, did not want him to become an actor, and sent him to be educated to a priest in Uppsala. His mother died when he was nine, and the year after, his father remarried Charlotta Ficker

Charlotta Almlöf

Anna Maria Franziska Charlotta Almlöf, née Ficker, , was a Swedish stage actress.Daughter of Christian Fredrik Ficker, a musician at Kungliga Hovkapellet, and sister of the opera singer Mathilda Gelhaar, she was enrolled in Dramatens elevskola in 1830...

, a celebrated actress in flirtatious parts of the Royal Dramatic Theatre

Royal Dramatic Theatre

The Royal Dramatic Theatre is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's eight running stages....

. She encouraged Knut in his interest for the theatre, and after his graduation in 1848, they convinced his father about his preference. In 1851, he joined the troupe of Pierre Deland

Pierre Deland

Pierre Joseph Deland, , was a Swedish actor and theatre director. As director of the Deland travelling theatre, he was one of the most famous artists in both Sweden and Finland during the mid 19th century. His troupe inaugurated several of the first theatres founded in the Swedish and Finnish towns...

, where he married his colleague Betty Deland

Betty Deland

Betty Deland, as married Almlöf, , was a Swedish child actor, actor and principal at Dramatens elevskola...

. He was employed at the theatre Mindre teatern

Mindre teatern

Mindre teatern , Nya teatern , Lindeberska teatern , was a Swedish theatre at Kungsgatan in Stockholm, active 1842-1863...

 in Stockholm in 1861 and in the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1863. He had a natural way of acting and was considered a genius in comedy. In 1874-1877, he was joint principal of Dramatens elevskola

Dramatens elevskola

Dramatens elevskola, i.e. Kungliga Dramatiska Teaterns Elevskola, or in Eng: The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school, was the acting school of Sweden's national stage, The Royal Dramatic Theatre, and for many years seen as the foremost theatre school and drama education for Swedish stage actors...

with his wife. he took the death of his wife 1882 very hard and left the theatre, but continued to act as a guest artist until 1897.