Hans Mosesson

Swedish actor and musician (1944–2023)

Actor
musician

Hans Kristoffer Mosesson (1 August 1944 – 25 October 2023) was a Swedish actor and musician.

Life and career

Hans Mosesson was born in the Enskede district of Stockholm. He studied medicine at the University of Lund in the 1970s. In Lund, he met the newly founded leftist theatre and musical group Nationalteatern, and Mosesson quit his studies and joined the group and moved with them to Gothenburg.^[1] He both wrote and sang the songs "Plast's sång" and "Lägg av!", among others.^{[citation needed]}

Mosesson featured in many Swedish films and TV-productions. During the 2000s he was a household face in Sweden as he starred as the grocer Stig in the first 512 episodes of the long-running weekly advert series for the grocery chain ICA from 2001 to January 2015.^[2]

Mosesson died on 25 October 2023, at the age of 79.^[3]

Filmography

Första Kärleken (1992)
A Life for the Taking (1995)
Andra Avenyn (2010)
Den Onda Ringen (2013)
Jordskott (2015)

References

^ Lindsten, Björn (23 November 2017). "Sanningen bakom Ica-Stigs förvandling". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 October 2023.
^ Ohlin, Jonas (21 January 2015). "Ica-Stig lämnar reklambutiken efter rekordmånga filmer". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
^ Laurell, Agnes; Moshizi, Tara (27 October 2023). "Skådespelaren Hans Mosesson är död". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 October 2023.