Ernst Günther

Ernst Günther (1933-1999) was the Swedish voice for Cookie Monster on Sesam and Svenska Sesam. 
Günther started his career in school, where he put on plays with Åke Edin, later to become a TV producer. Günther experimented in different fields, including journalism, but around age 30, he decided to become a professional actor. Although he failed to gain entrance to any acting school, he landed small parts at Riksteatern. He moved to Finland in the early 1960s, where he was connected to Wasa theater. He returned to Sweden in 1966 and was hired as a director at Norrköping-Linköpings theater. He would then work at different theaters around Sweden as an actor and director.
Günther had his first minor movie role in 1968 as a truck driver in I huvet på en gammal gubbe. His last movie role was in Den Vita lejoninnan from 1996. In between, he worked with Ingmar Bergman twice, in Fanny och Alexander (1982, as the university head) and The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan, 1992).
Günther worked extensively in Swedish radio as both actor and director (the latter including adaptations of August Strindberg, Gogol, and Faust author Goethe). He was heard as Ernest Hemingway in a 1971 play examining his life and suicide, Robert E. Lee in an account of Gettysburg, Deep Thought in the Swedish version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Treebeard in a 1995 serial of The Lord of the Rings. In the 1990s, he was a frequent storyteller on the children's series Dagisradion and Kusin Vaken. He lent his voice to the Swedish dub of the Danish animated feature Valhalla as Thor and Mimer.
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