Beppe Wolgers

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Beppe Wolgers , actually John Bertil Wolgers , (born November 10, 1928 in Stockholm , † August 6, 1986 in Östersund , Jämtland ) was a Swedish actor , author , composer and director .

Life

Wolgers was the son of forester John Wolgers and Gerda Wolgers, nee Korsgren. From 1947 to 1948 he attended the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, USA, and from 1946 to 1947 the Poppius journalistskola and Otte Skölds målarskola. Wolgers was a journalist at Stockholms-Tidningen from 1960 to 1961.

Beppe Wolgers became known as an author of children's books and worked as a copywriter and influential composer for television and theater. He convinced Zarah Leander to participate in Stephen Sondheim's musical The Smile of a Summer Night from 1966 and wrote the pieces I Remember , Liaisons and The Glamorous Life for it .

A star in Sweden for a long time, Wolgers finally achieved international through his appearances as the bearded, cozy father Ephraim Longstocking in the popular Pippi Longstocking films based on Astrid Lindgren and as the father in Dunderklumpen by Per Åhlin , for which he also wrote the screenplay Notoriety. His wife Kerstin Dunér (* 1932), son Jens (* 1963) and daughter Camilla (* 1965) also played in this film, which delighted the audience with its successful combination of fiction and animation and to which Toots Thielemans contributed the music. With.

Beppe Wolgers was married twice and had four children. He died on August 6, 1986, at the age of 57, of gastric bleeding caused by a gastric ulcer . His second wife, Kerstin Dunér, opened a Beppe Wolgers Museum in 1999 in Strömsund, central Sweden .

He was dubbed by Herbert Weicker , who became known for his dubbing of Mr. Spock in the television series Star Trek .

Filmography (selection)

Pippi Longstocking Films

More movies

Web links

Commons : Beppe Wolgers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Harnesk (Ed.): Vem är vem? 1, Stor-Stockholm ( Swedish ), 2nd edition, Vem är vem, Stockholm 1962, p. 1421.
  2. ↑ Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1985 ( Swedish ). Norstedt, Stockholm 1984, ISBN 91-1-843222-0 , p. 1210.
personal data
SURNAME Wolgers, Beppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolgers, John Bertil (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish actor, director, writer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1986
Place of death Strömsund , Jämtland, Sweden