Magnus Härenstam
Also Known As: Johan Herbert Magnus Härenstam
Biography: Johan Herbert Magnus Härenstam was a Swedish television host, actor and comedian. Härenstam hosted the Swedish version of the game-show Jeopardy! for 14 years before being replaced by Adam Alsing. Härenstam is also known for hosting the children's TV-program Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter (with Brasse Brännström & Eva Remaeus), which was very popular and has been re-broadcast numerous times since it first aired. Härenstam participated in the music video for ABBA's hit song "When I Kissed the Teacher" where he played the teacher who got kissed by Agnetha Fältskog. Well known in Sweden for several decades, he was almost equally popular in Norway, having starred in the 1990s sitcom Fredrikssons fabrikk, playing the Swedish boss of a Norwegian textile workshop. Härenstam died on 13 June 2015 after a several year long fight with cancer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Västervik, Småland, Sverige
Adult: No
Birthday: June 19, 1941
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 13, 2015
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Who Pulled the Plug?
Overview: To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against their major competitor and they both have to resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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Who Pulled the Plug? 2
Overview: Andersson's boatyard remains after 25 years, still chased by the same stringent, but misfortuned debt collector. TV producer Vonna Jigert wants Andersson to compete against an Italian company and their boat Fortuna in a race on Göta Kanal – live on TV. The race is broadcasted as a reality show. Same gangly canoer like 25 years ago also has a canoeing vacation on the canal when the race starts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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The Health Journey
Overview: The film is about the health resort Granhedsgården in Dalarna, Sweden, and they have a problem. They don't have many guests at all and something must be done. At the same time, Stig-Helmer is a little depressed after his girlfriend has left him, and so he lives on junk food. His best friend Ole invites him to come along to the health resort Granhedsgården. Now, the craziness begins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Magnus och Brasse: Varning för barn
Overview: VARNING FÖR BARN inspelad 1976 på Restaurang Trägår'n Göteborg. Härenstam och Brännström framför sketcher som "Bäst att ta sig ett glas", "Svordomsvisan", "Flygkaptenerna".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat
Overview: DET ÄR SERVERAT inspelad 1978 på Berns Salonger i Stockholm. Härenstam och Brännström framför sketcher som "Ouvertyr med arg servitör", "Goddag, God dag", "De ä bar å åk! I helvete heller!" "Kirurgerna".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-01-07
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Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt 70 år
Overview: Interviews with and about Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt interspersed with clips from his old performances. Recorded to celebrate his 70th birthday, which would be his last.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-02-22
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Adult Behaviour… It's All in the Mind
Overview: Frank leads a respectable yuppie life working at a noted Stockholm law firm. He has also been married for eight years to his beautiful wife Nenne, who runs an upscale boutique. Yet Frank is deeply bored with his life and is supremely randy. He even fantasizes about the marriage counselor that he and Nenne visit weekly. Eventually, Frank shacks up with a young fetching art student named Sofia, though the experience wracks Frank with guilt. Meanwhile, Nenne's friend and co-worker Rosie suspects that Frank is having an affair, though she does not have the nerve to tell her. Little does Rosie suspect, however, that her friend is sleeping with her lover Georg, an uptight journalist with an ego the size of Finland. Soon wires get crossed, and all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-09-24
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Karlsson on the Roof
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Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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Who Pulled the Plug? 3
Overview: Years after winning a race down the Göta Canal, life for a family of shipbuilders gets complicated when they get entangled with the mafia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-12-25
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The Rooster
Overview: In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a car it becomes much easier, especially since he has the power to relocate people to an easier line of work. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-09-04
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Package Tour
Overview: Stig-Helmer and Ole Bramserud on a trip to the Canary Islands for Christmas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-08-22
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The Adventures of Picasso
Overview: A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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As Seen On Tv
Overview: Alexander is a talk show host on TV and a partying bachelor privately with an awful love life even though he dreams of settling down. One day his old friend Ralf brings him a manuscript for a book that he can't get published and asks Alexander to put his name on it for some more publicity. Alexander agrees without reading and finds himself in trouble when the book comes out and the views expressed in it are opposite to his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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The Butt
Overview: Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Macken - Roy's & Roger's Bilservice
Overview: Roy and Roger decide to close their gasstation for the summer, to try to find where, what and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love and much more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-12-23
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Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården
Overview: Through a series of mishaps, the proper bank official Gunnarsson is forced to spend his first days of vacation in the archipelago of Stockholm, both in and out of the water.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Happy We
Overview: Three friends who haven't seen each other for seventeen years reunite and have a lot to tell about what has happened in the meantime. The film follows the friends for some time afterwards and then moves another twenty years in the future...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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A Guy and a Gal
Overview: Hypochondriac Lasse has finished his education but has trouble finding a job, instead he goes out trying to pick up girls. One morning he meets Lena in the stairwell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-06-25
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Father to Be
Overview: Bosse works at an advertising agency while working on the novel of the century. At a burger restaurant he meets Lena, and before he knows it, she is pregnant. Bosse starts thinking that his life is all over, he won't get any more career opportunities, and never again will he have time for late night parties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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Viva la Greta
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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In the Footsteps of Stig Helmer
Overview: In the Footsteps of Stig Helmer is a 66 minute documentary about the making of a series of comedy movies focusing on the character Stig Helmer and his vacationing trips, all filled with comical events and complications.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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SOPOR
Overview: One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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Bamse and the Thief City
Overview: Sweden's most popular comic book character - the bear Bamse - will now get his first own feature film. In "Bamse and the city of thieves" the strongest bear in the world and his two friends Little Hopp and Shellman show that the best weapon against evil is -friendship (and a few drops of Grandma's Thunder Honey of course).
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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Fredrikssons fabrikk – The movie
Overview: Newly divorced factory manager Fredriksson has found a new partner, and has hired her as chief designer at the factory. Her role models are the top fashion houses in Paris, and she has plans ready for renovations. But how do the employees react? Pia, Kari, Oddveig, Margit and Tommy? And what happens when everyone is laid off due to declining order intake?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1994-12-26
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Året var 1973
Overview: At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-01-30
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Sigillet
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-04-21
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Joker Face
Overview: A series of sketches with various Swedish comedians and artists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-02-10
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Stall-Erik and the Snapphans
Overview: Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary premiere in 2025. Director, producer and lead actor is Anders Olofsson. Olofsson is entirely responsible for the financing of the project and the casting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
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Pappas Pojkar
Overview: A comedy series about a Dad who finds himself in different kinds of trouble and calls in his two sons to help him out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Bert: The Last Virgin
Overview: The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
Genres: Family Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-12-25
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Fem Myror Är Fler Än Fyra Elefanter
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Bo Widerberg
Overview: Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a failed theater production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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A Short Movie About the Butt
Overview: Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's 1974 film 'Fimpen'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-17
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Glasmästarna
Overview: Silent about two clumsy glaziers.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1986-01-03
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Winners and Losers
Overview: Fredrik, the single father of Magda, is too occupied with his race horse Kisa to see that his daughter has problems in school. But one day Magda brings home a new friend, Helena, caller at the local bingo hall. Fredrik is soon smitten by the frank and outspoken 29-year-old. Helena and a self-confident Magda help Fredrik to see why his horse never wins the races.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-01-28
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En flicka på halsen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Lill, Brasse och Magnus på Berns
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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Ultimate Comedy 2
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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ABBA-dabba-doo
Overview: This first documentary about the pop group ABBA was made around the time of the release of their fourth album 'Arrival'. It contains unique archive footage filmed at the secret location where they made the record, concert footage, specially made promotional videos, photos from the group members' private collection and interviews in Swedish with each of them: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Stig was also interviewed briefly and was shown playing and singing part of Tivedshambo on acoustic guitar.
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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