Ernst-Hugo Järegård
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Young Järegård on stage with Margit Carlqvist in Jean-Paul Sartre's Fångarna på Altona (The Condemned of Altona), Gothenburg City Theatre, 1961.
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Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård 12 December 1928 Ystad, Sweden |
| Died | September 6, 1998 (aged 69) Lidingö, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1962–1998 |
| Spouse(s) | Karin Nordström (m. 1949; his death 1998) |
| Children | Johannes |
Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård (12 December 1928 in Ystad – 6 September 1998 in Lidingö) was a Swedish cult actor and horror host.
From 1962 Järegård 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 - and slightly perverted - 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.
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