The death is confirmed by the family of Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. Skoog passed away on December 12 after a period of illness.
Helge Skoog was associated with Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm for almost 40 years, until his retirement in 1997. In the early 1980s, he was associated with Suzanne Osten and Unga Klara, and then helped build Klara Soppteater.
Pia Johansson participated together with Helge Skoog in TV4's panel program "Parlament" for many years.
He was the one who was the most fun to sit with, because he was so attentive to his partner all the time. Always, she tells Swedish Radio.
Ture Sventon
Skoog also appeared in a long line of films and television series. Among other things, he is known to many Swedes as Ture Sventon in SVT's Christmas calendar from 1989, and the film "T Sventon and Isabella" from 1991.
Johan Ulveson played Ture Sventon's archenemy Ville Vessla in the television series about Ture Sventon.
He was an incredibly funny person and actor. Helge was also always very humble. We worked together in "Ture Sventon" and some other things and he was easy to work with. He was in many ways a role model for me, says Ulveson to Aftonbladet.
At Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Helge Skoog and Pia Johansson worked, among other things, with the improvisational concept of theatre sports.
He has been my friend and colleague for over 40 years and today I feel such immense gratitude for everything he has paved the way for me. Improvisation and his enormous curiosity about everything that was new and exciting, she says.
Audience contact
Improvisational theatre was close to Skoog's heart. In a TT Spektra interview on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Helge Skoog stated that the inspiration of the moment often provided immediate contact with the audience.
"A really good improvisation usually beats the very best sketch. When the audience is aware that it's improvised, you don't even have to be funny, just say something spontaneous," he said.
Malin Dahlberg, CEO of Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, pays tribute to his efforts in a press release.
"Helge Skoog helped lay the foundation for what has become distinctive for the City Theatre – a theatre where the popular and current go hand in hand with the experimental and classic. What became his signature lives on with us," she says.
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Facts: Helge Skoog
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Born August 6, 1938 in Borås. Was involved with the Stockholm City Theatre from 1967 to 1997, where he was also active at Unga Klara and led the lunch theatre Klara soup theatre. At the City Theatre he launched the improvisation concept Teatersport.
TV and film roles, in selection: "The Enbom Affair" (1973), "The People of Hedeby" (1980), "The Mozart Brothers" (1986), "Four Days That Shaken Sweden - the Midsummer Crisis of 1941" (1988), "Ture Sventon Private Detective" (1989), "Ebba & Didrik" (1990), "The Jönsson League Plays Loudly" (2000).
He was also the narrator of TV4's "Half Eight at My Place" for a time. Skoog has been a summer host on P1 twice, in 1988 and 2004.
