Sven-Bertil Taube

Sven-Bertil Taube, Sven-Bertil Gunnar Evert Taube, (born November 24, 1934) is a Swedish singer and actor. He is the son of the songwriter Evert Taube.

Sven-Bertil released his debut album in 1954 with covers of his father's songs. He has also recorded songs by the Swedish 18th century songwriter Carl Michael Bellman and the poet Nils Ferlin (1898-1961), whose poems were mostly put to music by Lille Bror Söderlundh, and others.

Sven-Bertil Taube also started a somewhat successful acting career which took him to London where he acted in theater and musicals and had a role on the television series "Upstairs, Downstairs". In the 1970s, Taube tried to find work as an actor in Hollywood and had some minor roles, most notable in the 1976 World War II drama "The Eagle Has Landed" and the starring-role as a US agent in the 1971 film-version of Alistair MacLean's novel "Puppet on a Chain".

The 1980s and 1990s, he starred in a number of Swedish films and television series, while keeping alive his music career.

Sven-Bertil Taube has been married four times and has four children born in 1960, 1965, 1979 and most recently in 1994.

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