Ernst-Hugo Alfred JäregÃ¥rd (12 December 1928 â€" 6 September 1998)
was a Swedish cult actor and horror host.Järegård was born in Ystad.
He received his acting training at Malmö City Theatre. From 1962 he
was an actor in Sweden's prominent Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he
came to perform a number of much celebrated parts: his eccentric
Hitler in Schweik in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht (1963),
Estragon in the legendary 1966 Dramaten-staging of Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot, Thersites in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
1967, Orgon in Molière's Tartuffe 1971, Hjalmar Ekdahl in Ingmar
Bergman's 1972 production of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Nero in Jean
Racine's Britannicus (1974), a spot-on portrayal of August Strindberg
in play Tribadernas natt (The Night of the Tribades) by Per Olov
Enquist, the title role in Richard III by Shakespeare (1980) and the
extremely creepy â€" and slightly perverted â€" boss Sven in VD
("CEO") by Stig Larsson in 1985, among others.Järegård had a taste
for villainous and dark characters, and enjoyed playing them. But he
also had a very lyrical and soft side to him as an actor, something he
showed in the TV production of Hans Christian och sällskapet (where
he plays a village priest who suffers a great personal tragedy as his
wife loses her mind after having a baby) and in the TV adaptation of
Birger Sjöberg's Frida och hennes vän (based on Sjöberg's Frida's
Book) where he plays the light-hearted, daydreaming early 1900s
love-struck suitor of Frida. Adding the fact that Järegård also had
a beautiful and expressive singing voice (he performed in a number of
stage musicals during his career) gave him an incredible range and
versatility as an actor. He originated the role of Guido in the first
European staging of the musical Nine, for example (Oscarsteatern,
Stockholm, 1983). His distinct and original voice (with traces of the
unmistakable Skåne-dialect) also made him a much appreciated and
beloved narrator of children's cartoons and audio books. Particularly
popular are his audio book (originally radio) recordings of Roald
Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and the narration of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and
the Wolf.Järegård went on to play the villainous character Elaka
MÃ¥ns (Mean Mike in the English dub) in the Swedish animated movie
Peter-No-Tail and its sequel Peter-No-Tail in Americat. He also lent
him voice for the Swedish dub of the film Valhalla, playing the Norse
God Loki; god of mischief.
was a Swedish cult actor and horror host.Järegård was born in Ystad.
He received his acting training at Malmö City Theatre. From 1962 he
was an actor in Sweden's prominent Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he
came to perform a number of much celebrated parts: his eccentric
Hitler in Schweik in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht (1963),
Estragon in the legendary 1966 Dramaten-staging of Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot, Thersites in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
1967, Orgon in Molière's Tartuffe 1971, Hjalmar Ekdahl in Ingmar
Bergman's 1972 production of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Nero in Jean
Racine's Britannicus (1974), a spot-on portrayal of August Strindberg
in play Tribadernas natt (The Night of the Tribades) by Per Olov
Enquist, the title role in Richard III by Shakespeare (1980) and the
extremely creepy â€" and slightly perverted â€" boss Sven in VD
("CEO") by Stig Larsson in 1985, among others.Järegård had a taste
for villainous and dark characters, and enjoyed playing them. But he
also had a very lyrical and soft side to him as an actor, something he
showed in the TV production of Hans Christian och sällskapet (where
he plays a village priest who suffers a great personal tragedy as his
wife loses her mind after having a baby) and in the TV adaptation of
Birger Sjöberg's Frida och hennes vän (based on Sjöberg's Frida's
Book) where he plays the light-hearted, daydreaming early 1900s
love-struck suitor of Frida. Adding the fact that Järegård also had
a beautiful and expressive singing voice (he performed in a number of
stage musicals during his career) gave him an incredible range and
versatility as an actor. He originated the role of Guido in the first
European staging of the musical Nine, for example (Oscarsteatern,
Stockholm, 1983). His distinct and original voice (with traces of the
unmistakable Skåne-dialect) also made him a much appreciated and
beloved narrator of children's cartoons and audio books. Particularly
popular are his audio book (originally radio) recordings of Roald
Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and the narration of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and
the Wolf.Järegård went on to play the villainous character Elaka
MÃ¥ns (Mean Mike in the English dub) in the Swedish animated movie
Peter-No-Tail and its sequel Peter-No-Tail in Americat. He also lent
him voice for the Swedish dub of the film Valhalla, playing the Norse
God Loki; god of mischief.
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