John Peter Kaj Harryson is a Swedish actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, singer and entertainer from Norrköping

Norrköping

Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County. The city has a population of 87,247 inhabitants in 2010, out of a municipal total of 130,050, making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest...

, Östergötland

Östergötland

Östergötland, English exonym: East Gothland, is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland, and the Baltic Sea. In older English literature, one might also encounter the Latinized version, Ostrogothia...

. He is the son of actor John Harryson

John Harryson

John Harryson was a Swedish actor. He was the father of famous Swedish actor and television host Peter Harryson....

 (1926-2008).

1994-2001 Harryson played antagonist Pehr Silver in the soap opera Rederiet

Rederiet

Rederiet was a long-running Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between 1992 and 2002....

. He is also known from hosting the game show Så ska det låta

Så ska det låta

Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006....

. In the 80s he worked extensively with dubbing cartoons into Swedish. Two of his most famous roles are that of pilot Roy Focker

Roy Focker

is a fictional character from the Japanese anime science fiction series Macross and the prequel OVA Macross Zero...

 in the Swedish dub of the classic anime film Macross: Do You Remember Love and Shaggy

Shaggy

Shaggy may refer to:*Shaggy Rogers, a fictional character from the Scooby-Doo series*Shaggy , Jamaican American reggae rapper & singer*Shaggy , radio personality and producer of 2 Live Stews...

 in the Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise based around several animated television series and related works produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969...

-series.

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