John Bertil "Beppe" Wolgers (10 November 1928 – 6 August 1986) was a

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author, poet, translator, lyricist, actor, entertainer and artist.

Career

Wolgers was born in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, Sweden and was the son of forest ranger John Wolgers and Gerda (née Korsgren). He attended

Germantown Friends School Germantown Friends School (GFS) is a coeducational independent PreK–12 school in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States under the supervision of Germantown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Fr ...

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, United States from 1947 to 1948 and Poppius journalistskola and

Otte Skölds målarskola Pernby's paint school (Swedish language, Swedish: ), primarily Otte Skölds målarskola, in Stockholm was founded in 1929 by Otte Sköld (1894–1958) and Åke Pernby (1901–1981). The school was renamed in 1949, when Otte Skölds became head ...

from 1946 to 1947. Wolgers was a journalist at '' Stockholms-Tidningen'' from 1960 to 1961. Wolgers had also exhibits together with Ernfrid Bogstedt. He wrote about a thousand songs and specialized in putting Swedish lyrics to foreign tunes like " Walkin' My Baby Back Home", " Waltz for Debby", "

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", "Eleanor Rigby", "

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" and "

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" no 5. He also made several books and films for children, and did a famous series as a slightly crazy goodnight story teller for children in Swedish television 1968–74 and, as notable, the father of

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in the 1969 TV series. He died in

Östersund Östersund (; sma, Staare) is an urban area (city) in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. It is the seat of Östersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Östersund is located at the shores of Sweden's fifth-largest lake, Storsjön, ...

from a

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Personal life

Wolgers was married to Kerstin Dunér (born 1932), the daughter of radio inspector Osborn Dunér and his wife. They had four children.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolgers, Beppe 1928 births 1986 deaths Musicians from Stockholm Swedish-language poets Swedish songwriters Swedish artists Deaths from ulcers 20th-century poets 20th-century Swedish male actors 20th-century Swedish male writers Germantown Friends School alumni