Magnus Härenstam

Acting

Magnus Härenstam

Born 1941-06-19 · Västervik, Småland, Sverige

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.

Acting credits

Bamse and the Thief City poster
5.9

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.

Bamse and the Thief City

2014

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

The Adventures of Picasso poster
6.9

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

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

Min pappa är en clown poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Min pappa är en clown

2025

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

Sigillet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sigillet

2006

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

Package Tour poster
6.9

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

Package Tour

1980

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

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

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

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

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

Ultimate Comedy 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ultimate Comedy 2

2005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No artwork available
NR

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.

Stall-Erik and the Snapphans

Behind the camera

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

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

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

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

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

Joker Face poster
9.5

A series of sketches with various Swedish comedians and artists.

Joker Face

1984

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

Lill, Brasse och Magnus på Berns poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lill, Brasse och Magnus på Berns

1973