Staffan Götestam

Staffan Götestam
at the funeral of Magnus Härenstam at Hedvig Eleonora Church, Stockholm. 2015
Born	(1952-05-20) May 20, 1952 Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
Nationality	Sweden
Occupation(s)	actor, director, playwright

Per Staffan Götestam (born 20 May 1952 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden) is a Swedish actor, director, theatre chief, playwright and founder of Junibacken. He is best known as Jonatan in The Brothers Lionheart. He is brother to Birgitta Götestam. Götestam started playing amateur theatre with Örebro Student Theatre. He was educated at Skara skolscen and Statens scenskola, Stockholm. He played a role in the musical Godspell in 1974.

Götestam wrote the music of the song "Mio My Mio" from the film Mio in the Land of Faraway. In the beginning of the 1980s he started working with Olle Kinch, the theatre chief of Folkan. He then finished his actor career and became a producer/director. He directed many plays, among them Nils Karlsson Pyssling, Madicken and Tjorven på Saltkråkan, and many musicals, among them Rent, Beauty and the Beast and the Wizard of Oz. In 2000 Götestam received a Guldmasken.

Discography

Albums

• 1975 - Trollgas Adventskalender

Selected filmography

• 1990 - Nils Karlsson Pyssling (screenwriter, music writer and director)
• 1989 - Gull-Pian (director)
• 1986 - Bödeln och skökan
• 1977 - 91:an och generalernas fnatt
• 1977 - The Brothers Lionheart

Sources

• Staffan Götestam at IMDb
• http://www.staffangotestam.se/
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