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Magnus Härenstam

Magnus Härenstam

Johan Herbert Magnus Härenstam what is 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 Fredriksson factory, playing the Swedish boss of a Norwegian textile workshop. Härenstam died on 13 June 2015 after a several year long fight with cancer.

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Movies Starring Magnus Härenstam (39)

Stall-Erik and the Snapphans (2025)

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. ...

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Året var 1973 (2023)

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 powe ...

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A Short Movie About the Butt (2015)

Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's 1974 film 'Fimpen'. ...

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Bamse and the Thief City (2014)

Bamse, Lille Skutt and Skalman embark on an adventure that takes them through the Troll Forest to the City of Thieves to save Grandma from the villainous fox Reinard. ...

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Who Pulled the Plug? 3 (2009)

Years after winning a race down the Göta Canal, life for a family of shipbuilders gets complicated when they get entangled with the mafia. ...

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Who Pulled the Plug? 2 (2006)

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. ...

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Winners and Losers (2005)

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 outs ...

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In the Footsteps of Stig Helmer (2004)

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. ...

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Karlsson on the Roof (2002)

A beautiful, wise and fairly fat man at his best age — that's Karlsson on the Roof. And he isn't very shy. His door sign says "The world's best Karlsson". One day he just flew threw the window into Little Brothers bedroom. ...

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As Seen On Tv (2001)

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 n ...

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The Health Journey (1999)

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 ...

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Adult Behaviour… It's All in the Mind (1999)

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 fantasi ...

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Bert: The Last Virgin (1995)

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. ...

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Fredrikssons fabrikk – The movie (1994)

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, ...

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Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt 70 år (1991)

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. ...

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Macken - Roy's & Roger's Bilservice (1990)

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. ...

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Glasmästarna (1986)

Silent about two clumsy glaziers. ...

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Joker Face (1984)

A series of sketches with various Swedish comedians and artists. ...

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Happy We (1983)

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... ...

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Saddled With a Girl (1982)

A comedy about taxi driver Bengt, who finds himself in trouble when he is unable to repay a loan to loan shark Kurt. At the same time, researcher Johan receives an urgent assignment from his professor, which is complicated by the fact that he unexpectedly ...

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Who Pulled the Plug? (1981)

To secure an order for 1 000 cabin cruisers 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 a much larger competitor an ...

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The Rooster (1981)

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 ...

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SOPOR (1981)

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 deman ...

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Package Tour (1980)

Stig-Helmer and Ole Bramserud on a trip to the Canary Islands for Christmas. ...

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Father to Be (1979)

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 ...

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The Adventures of Picasso (1978)

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. ...

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Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat (1978)

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". ...

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Bo Widerberg (1977)

Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a failed theater production. ...

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ABBA-dabba-doo (1976)

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 promotiona ...

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Magnus och Brasse: Varning för barn (1976)

Recorded in 1976 at Restaurang Trägår'n in Gothenburg. Härenstam and Brännström perform sketches such as "Bäst att ta sig ett glas" (Better Have a Drink), "Svordomsvisan" (The Swear Song), and "Flygkaptenerna" (The Airline Captains). ...

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Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården (1976)

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. ...

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A Guy and a Gal (1975)

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. ...

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The Butt (1974)

6-year-old Johan (nicknamed 'Fimpen') loves football. One day, his talents are discovered, and it doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and the media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets ...

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Pappas Pojkar (1973)

A comedy series about a Dad who finds himself in different kinds of trouble and calls in his two sons to help him out. ...

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Movies Made By Magnus Härenstam (6)

Joker Face (1984)

A series of sketches with various Swedish comedians and artists. ...

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Happy We (1983)

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... ...

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Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat (1978)

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". ...

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Magnus och Brasse: Varning för barn (1976)

Recorded in 1976 at Restaurang Trägår'n in Gothenburg. Härenstam and Brännström perform sketches such as "Bäst att ta sig ett glas" (Better Have a Drink), "Svordomsvisan" (The Swear Song), and "Flygkaptenerna" (The Airline Captains). ...

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Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården (1976)

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. ...

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