Gösta Bernhard

At a young age, Gösta Bernhard was called "Västervik's Karl Gerhard", comparing him to the famous revue actor. Bernhard was a skilled lyricist and came to be responsible for a number of revues. In 1930 he moved to Stockholm. As early as 1933, he met Stig Bergendorff and the two began a collaboration, first with Bellevue-Fredhällsrevyn, which was run by two sports clubs, then under joint auspices with the so-called crazy revues in 1941–1963 at the now demolished Casinoteatern at Bryggargatan in Stockholm. At the Casino Revue they also featured the revue group Tre Knas 1946 (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Gunnar "Knas" Lindkvist and Nils Ohlson, the latter replaced by Curt "Minimal" Åström), and the comedian couple "Gus & Holger", (Gus Dahlström and Holger Höglund). Iréne Söderblom, Kai Gullmar, John Elfström, Arne Källerud and Carl-Axel Elfving also occasionally appeared in the revue. The revue also toured in the national parks in 1944, 1950 and 1955–1961. During the years 1973–1980, the Casino revues experienced a renaissance on Intiman, later called Wallman's Intiman, on Odengatan in Stockholm with several of the old actors, Gus Dahlström, Gunnar ”Knas" Lindkvist, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt and Gösta Krantz, often flanked by Siv Ericks, Eva Bysing or Anna Sundqvist. Actress Mille Schmidt also joined the gang. The final year, the Casino Revue also toured in the national parks.

Bernhard was also active at Lisebergsteatern in Gothenburg, where he played comedies during the summer, such as The rocking chair, Privatkiv and The happy apple. He toured with the National Swedish Touring Theatre several seasons where he did the title role in Jeppe on the Hill and the milkman Tevje in Fiddler on the roof. The latter role had first Frank Sundström engaged him to play at Stockholm City Theatre, 1969.[2]

• Gösta Bernhard at IMDb
• Gösta Bernhard at the Swedish Film Database