Magnus Härenstam

Acting

Magnus Härenstam

Born — Died

1941-06-19 — 2015-06-13

Place of birth

Västervik, Småland, Sverige

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

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 Fre…

Known for

På spåret poster
6.7

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

På spåret

1987

Skavlan poster
5.0

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."

Skavlan

2009

Hellenius Hörna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hellenius Hörna

2010

Stjärnorna på slottet poster
7.0

Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.

Stjärnorna på slottet

2006

Svenska tv-historier poster
NR

Factual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.

Svenska tv-historier

2015

Who Do You Think You Are? poster
10.0

A Swedish version of the British genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, where famous people are searching for truths and hidden stories about their family history.

Who Do You Think You Are?

2009

Film credits

2000s · 9 titles

Who Pulled the Plug? 3 poster
2.4

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

Who Pulled the Plug? 3

2009

Who Pulled the Plug? 2 poster
3.8

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.

Who Pulled the Plug? 2

2006

Sigillet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sigillet

2006

Karlsson on the Roof poster
4.3

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.

Karlsson on the Roof

2002

In the Footsteps of Stig Helmer poster
NR

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.

In the Footsteps of Stig Helmer

2004

As Seen On Tv poster
5.3

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.

As Seen On Tv

2001

Winners and Losers poster
4.8

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.

Winners and Losers

2005

Aud go'hjerta poster
NR

Friends and colleagues remember Norwegian actress Aud Schønemann in a documentary celebrating her life. The documentary was broadcast on Norwegian public broadcasting network (NRK) less than three months after Schønemann's death.

Aud go'hjerta

2006

Ultimate Comedy 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ultimate Comedy 2

2005

1990s · 7 titles

The Health Journey poster
4.2

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.

The Health Journey

1999

Adult Behaviour… It's All in the Mind poster
5.8

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.

Adult Behaviour… It's All in the Mind

1999

Bert: The Last Virgin poster
5.0

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.

Bert: The Last Virgin

1995

Lill-Babs 40 år som artist poster
NR

Legendary Swedish artist Lill-Babs celebrates 40 years as an artist with a grand evening full of performances and congratulations from some of the people she has crossed paths with over the decades.

Lill-Babs 40 år som artist

1994

Macken - Roy's & Roger's Bilservice poster
6.1

Roy and Roger decide to close their gas station for the summer, to try to find where, what, and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love, and much more.

Macken - Roy's & Roger's Bilservice

1990

Fredrikssons fabrikk – The movie poster
6.5

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?

Fredrikssons fabrikk – The movie

1994

Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt 70 år poster
NR

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.

Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt 70 år

1991

1980s · 10 titles

Happy We poster
5.8

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...

Happy We

1983

Package Tour poster
6.9

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

Package Tour

1980

Who Pulled the Plug? poster
5.8

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 and both resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first.

Who Pulled the Plug?

1981

The Rooster poster
5.6

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.

The Rooster

1981

Saddled With a Girl poster
5.8

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 has to take care of Bengt's daughter Pia. Their lives become intertwined in a series of comical and dramatic events that take place in the same apartment building.

Saddled With a Girl

1982

Joker Face poster
9.5

A series of sketches with various Swedish comedians and artists.

Joker Face

1984

Sugar poster
NR

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in. A Swedish adaptation of Billy Wilder's iconic 1959 musical comedy Some Like It Hot.

Sugar

1982

SOPOR poster
5.5

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.

SOPOR

1981

Glasmästarna poster
9.0

Silent about two clumsy glaziers.

Glasmästarna

1986

Morfar och jag på semester poster
NR

An uptight man decides to take his grandfather with him on vacation.

Morfar och jag på semester

1982

1970s · 11 titles

The Adventures of Picasso poster
6.8

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.

The Adventures of Picasso

1978

ABBA-dabba-doo poster
8.5

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.

ABBA-dabba-doo

1976

Father to Be poster
4.8

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.

Father to Be

1979

Stubby poster
5.9

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 hard to catch up in school.

Stubby

1974

Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat poster
5.0

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".

Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat

1978

Lill, Brasse och Magnus på Berns poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lill, Brasse och Magnus på Berns

1973

A Guy and a Gal poster
6.6

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.

A Guy and a Gal

1975

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården poster
6.2

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.

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården

1976

Bo Widerberg poster
NR

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

Bo Widerberg

1977

Magnus och Brasse: Varning för barn poster
6.3

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).

Magnus och Brasse: Varning för barn

1976

No artwork available
NR

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

Pappas Pojkar

1973

Series credits

På spåret poster
6.7

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

På spåret

1987

Skavlan poster
5.0

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."

Skavlan

2009

Hellenius Hörna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hellenius Hörna

2010

Stjärnorna på slottet poster
7.0

Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.

Stjärnorna på slottet

2006

Svenska tv-historier poster
NR

Factual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.

Svenska tv-historier

2015

Who Do You Think You Are? poster
10.0

A Swedish version of the British genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, where famous people are searching for truths and hidden stories about their family history.

Who Do You Think You Are?

2009

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

100 Höjdare poster
6.9

100 höjdare was a Swedish TV series which was produced and aired on Kanal 5. Six seasons of the show were produced and it ran from 2004 to 2008. It was hosted by the comedy duo Filip Hammar & Fredrik Wikingsson. In the first three seasons the hosts presented funny moments, often in the form of video clips, listing their 100 all-time favorites. In season two and three they also discuss the clips with celebrity guests. By season four the format changed and instead of showing clips, Filip and Fredrik made impromptu interviews with people, often in their homes.

100 Höjdare

2004

C/o Segemyhr poster
6.9

c/o Segemyhr was a Swedish sitcom that premiered on TV4 Sweden on 4 September 1998. The series took place in and around an apartment in an exclusive neighbourhood in Stockholm, Artillerigatan 35 and later Styrmansgatan 52 in the same area. The series began with three seasons from fall 1998 to fall 1999, thereafter additionally two seasons were added in 2003–2004. All seasons have been released on DVD. Script writers were Fredrik Lindström och Erik Haag.

C/o Segemyhr

1998

Agnetas Nyårskarameller poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Agnetas Nyårskarameller

1995

Fredrikssons fabrikk poster
6.7

A classic Norwegian sitcom set in a small Oslo clothing factory run by the uptight yet well-meaning director Peder Fredriksson. Surrounded by a group of outspoken seamstresses and quirky staff, Fredriksson struggles to maintain order amid everyday chaos, gossip, and comic misunderstandings. The show blends workplace humor with sharp social observation and became a beloved portrait of Norwegian working life in the early 1990s.

Fredrikssons fabrikk

1990

Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter poster
7.9

Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter or Fem myror was a 1973–75 Swedish TV-series for children, hosted by Magnus Härenstam, Brasse Brännström and Eva Remaeus. The TV-series included songs and sketches with education about letters, numbers, positions, etc. Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter was broadcast first on 19 November 1973 on TV2 by Sveriges Television and it was also broadcast as Julkalendern 27 November –24 December 1977. Fem myror is able to buy on VHS and DVD and there are also PC games.

Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter

1984

Karlsson on the Roof poster
10.0

Karlsson's grandmother is the world's best racing driver and Karlsson is not so bad either. Kaxige Kirre challenges Karlsson in a box car race. Now it is up to Karlsson and Lillebror to build a really fast car so that they can give Kirre what he can stand. Little brother has made a kite at school that he wants to test fly with Bosse. Just this day, it blows a lot so the dragon wears itself out and sticks out into the sky. Shortly afterwards, Karlsson is greeted by a wild creature that frightens him. What kind of scary character is that? When Mrs. Olsson's parrot escapes from her cage, it's good to have a friend who can fly. Especially when the one who finds the bird can get a hundred kroner in hit salary?

Karlsson on the Roof

2002

Zvampen poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zvampen

1984

Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter poster
8.0

Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter was Sveriges Radio-TV:s advent calendar for the year 1977. The segments for each letter were taken from the original series and afterwards they added a part where Magnus, Brasse, and Eva opened the door of the day. To manage to fit all letters in the alphabet, the calendar had 28 episodes (one for each letter) and started already before december, on november 27, which was the first of advent the year the calendar aired.

Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter

1977

Bamse och tjuvstaden poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bamse och tjuvstaden

2020

Wild Kids poster
6.5

Children aged ten to twelve are divided into two teams and compete in action-packed and knowledge-based challenges while living together in the wilderness. Each episode features a prize challenge and a challenge where the winning team earns a new teammate, strengthening their group ahead of the final competition. Alongside the contests, the series follows their everyday life at camp, from building shelters and cooking over an open fire to dealing with homesickness and sharing their thoughts in the evenings.

Wild Kids

2005

Don't Blame Me! poster
7.0

Skyll inte på mig! was a Swedish television comedy series starring Magnus Härenstam and Brasse Brännström, produced in 1977, and like Fleksnes fataliteter based on Galton and Simpson's scripts for the British series Hancock's Half Hour, translated and directed by Bo Hermansson.

Don't Blame Me!

1978

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sam tar över

2012

Kvartetten som sprängdes poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kvartetten som sprängdes

1973

Oj - är det redan fredag? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oj - är det redan fredag?

1970

Kanal 22 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kanal 22

1973

Pappas pojkar poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Pappas pojkar

1973

Behind the camera

Happy We poster
5.8

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...

Happy We

1983

Omaka par poster
NR

At the home of Ulla, the girlfriends meet, as usual. This evening, however, pedantic Beatrice needs to move in with Ulla because she has been thrown out by her husband. Ulla knows the solution to Bea's problem and invites her neighbors, two fiery Spaniards.

Omaka par

1996

Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat poster
5.0

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".

Magnus och Brasse: Det är serverat

1978

Lill, Brasse och Magnus på Berns poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lill, Brasse och Magnus på Berns

1973

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården poster
6.2

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.

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården

1976

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården poster
6.2

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.

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården

1976

Joker Face poster
9.5

A series of sketches with various Swedish comedians and artists.

Joker Face

1984

Sugar poster
NR

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in. A Swedish adaptation of Billy Wilder's iconic 1959 musical comedy Some Like It Hot.

Sugar

1982

Magnus och Brasse: Varning för barn poster
6.3

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).

Magnus och Brasse: Varning för barn

1976

Omaka par poster
NR

Two women share an apartment even though they are complete opposites. Ulla is lazy and messy while Beatrice is neat and pedantic.

Omaka par

1988