He showed versatility from the start, learning tap dancing in 16 days after being called in to replace Nils Poppe in the Swedish version of the musical Me and My Girl in the late 1950s.

He also dubbed a large number of roles; his voice is well known in Sweden from the Swedish versions of Fabeltjeskrant, The Jungle Book, SuperTed, and the Tintin and Asterix animated productions.

In the 1970s, as the owl Helge, he had a lead role alongside Birgitta Andersson in the children's TV series Från A till Ö.

He also played the director Firmin in 100 performances during the long-running production of The Phantom of the Opera at the Oscarsteatern in Stockholm in 1989–1995,[2] where his ability to sing an operatic part without training raised some eyebrows.

In the 1990s he became known to a younger generation for ten years playing the machinist Gustav Sjögren in the television series Rederiet;[2] Gösta Prüzelius, who starred as Reidar Dahlén, was a close friend of his.