Beppe Wolgers

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1928-11-10

Deathday 1986-08-06 (57 years old)

Place of Birth Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Also Known As John Bertil Wolgers

Beppe Wolgers

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Bertil "Beppe" Wolgers (10 November 1928, Stockholm – 6 August 1986) was a Swedish author, poet, translator, lyricist, actor, entertainer and artist. Wolgers was born in Stockholm. He wrote about a thousand songs and specialized in putting Swedish lyrics to foreign tunes like "Walkin' My Baby Back Home", "Waltz for Debby", "Dat Dere", "Take Five" and "Bachianas brasileiras" no 5. He also made several books and films for children, and did a famous series as a slightly crazy goodnight story teller for children in Swedish television 1968–74 and, as notable, the father of Pippi Longstocking in the 1969 TV series. He died in Östersund from a peptic ulcer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Radcliffe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

1993
Minns ni?

as (archive footage)

1980
1974
Thunderclump

as Beppe

1973
Pippi Goes on Board

as Kapten Efraim Långstrump

1970
1970
Pippi in the South Seas

as Kapten Långstrump

1969
Between Us

as Åge

1969
Pippi Longstocking

as Kapten Efraim Långstrump

1969
De sista entusiasterna

as Sadistas Dumrath

1968
Beppes godnattstund

as Himself / Busan (voice)

1967
Hugo and Josephine

as Gudmarson

1964
Swedish Portraits

as Shop owner

1960
Julkalendern

as Långtradarchauffören

Writer

1985
1974
Thunderclump

as Screenplay

1967
Fantasimissimo

as Writer

1960
Julkalendern

as Writer

Director

1967
Fantasimissimo

as Director

1960
Julkalendern

as Director

Creator

1963
Skäggen

as Creator