Swedish actor Allan Svensson, 73, died on Nov. 17. He was best known for starring in the hit ’90s sitcom Svensson, Svensson, which was also revived in later years. He performed frequently onstage (frequently with the Stockholm City Theater) in comedies, classics, and in the play Fallet Kapten Klänning, about a real-life policeman jailed for abusing women. Svensson appeared in several films, and on TV he had recurring roles in Hedebyborna, Varuhuset, Stoft och Skugga, Tre Kärlekar, Vänner och Fiender, En Riktig Jul, and, most recently, the detective show Maria Wern. “Realistically, it’s absurd, they would have divorced many years ago,” Svensson said of his Svensson, Svensson marriage to actress Suzanne Reuter. He compared the show and its offshoots to the Helan and Halvan films he saw as a child: “The films were called Helan and Halvan in the Foreign Legion and Helan and Halvan in Paris—the people and the relationship were the same, otherwise it wouldn’t be Helan and Halvan.”
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