Svante Grundberg spent his last time in Gävle, sweden, where he lived in recent years.
” You’re a little in shock still. But the fact that he is missing is obvious. Not only by family but by all who have appreciated him, ” says Svante Grundbergs brother Lars Abelin to the Aftonbladet newspaper on Sunday evening.
75 years of age. He led the SVT programme ”Nattsudd” together Björn Wallde, which aired between the years 1985-1991.
” It’s devastated, it came so suddenly. At the same time, it should be remembered that we are old. This happens, but now when I see the headlines, it is unbelievable, you didn’t think it would happen. But I remember him as an extremely fun person, knowledgeable and talented in all the way, ” says friend and former colleague Björn Wallde.
as a student in Lund, sweden in the 60s and played a lot of theatre together. In August 1985, had their tv-show ”Nattsudd” premieres on SVT. The program was recorded in Björn Walldes apartment on Kungsholmen. There they sat and smoked, listened to music, played videos and talked.
” We wanted to recreate this time in Lund, where we sat and glared at the movie and smoked all through the night. SVT had not seen on her husband, but that’s what happened when he and I met and sat with a 16-millimeter projector. We had the same type of humor, above all, we had the same interest in old Hollywood movies, ” says Björn Wallde.
appeared as an actor and director at various theatres in Stockholm, in the 70’s. He debuted in 1978 in Marianne Ahrnes film ”Freedom walls”. Later, he acted, inter alia, in the ”Sällskapsresan”, ”Gräsänklingar” and in the ”Göta kanal”-films.