birth_place name birth_date yearsactive image article_title birth_name
stockholm , sweden johannes brost 25 september 1946 1973 -- present johannes brost.jpg johannes brost
 edvard johannes brost forssell
johannes brost

johannes brost -lrb- born september 25 , 1946 -rrb- is a swedish actor .
he grew up in the skåne province in southern sweden .
his mother , actress gudrun brost , worked at the malmö city theater .
he followed in his mother 's footsteps and became a stage actor , working both in malmö and stockholm , and later starred in several movies and on tv .
he biggest claim to fame in sweden was the role of `` joker '' , the bartender in the tv soap opera `` rederiet '' , a long running drama show about a shipping company which conducts passenger traffic on the baltic sea .
brost has also starred as a villain in two `` jönssonligan '' films .
in 1991 he started doing stand-up comedy .
although mostly known as a comedic actor , brost has been in some more serious dramatic films .
johannes brost is sometimes credited as `` john frost '' .
in terms of johannes brost 's personal life he is a long-time friend with mick jagger of the rolling stones .
in 1965 , the rolling stones had a gig in malmö and they did n't have any hotel to stay at .
instead they slept in the home of radio syd 's owner , britt wagner .
wagner 's daughter was friend with brost and convinced the stones to go to the club that brost was running at the time -lrb- west end club -rrb- .
jagger and brost immediately became friends and they still meet every time stones are on tour and they come to sweden .
