STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Swedish comic actor and radio personality Lars Brandeby has died at a Gothenburg hospital, his family said. He was 66.
Brandeby's partner Ninnie Fjelkegard, daughter Anna Brandeby Harstrom and friend Lasse Kroner announced his death Sunday, noting he "passed away surrounded by loved ones."
The star of TV's "Let's Dance" had recently suffered a stroke and pneumonia, the Swedish news agency TT reported Monday.
Brandeby worked as a high school teacher, a taxi driver and gas station attendant before he entered the School of Journalism in Gothenburg in 1979. After a year at the school, he began working as a reporter for Radio Sjuharad. He later went to work at the National Theatre in Gothenburg and appeared on Sveriges Television, TT said.
