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Stig Gunnar Lasseby (5 March 1925 – 8 December 1996) was a

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, Roland Sterner
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, 2011, retrieved December 17, 2014. Through his company Team Film he played an important role in the history of Swedish animation. Lasseby was born in

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and was educated as a teacher of drawing. In 1955, with two classmates, he founded the animation studio AB Team Film, which by 1966 made him one of Sweden's best known animators. In 1972 the company produced '' Agaton Sax och bröderna Max'', a television series based on the book of the same name by

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, one of the series about the detective

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. In 1976 they produced a series of three short films for television about Agaton Sax, and also ''

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'', the first full-length entirely animated Swedish film, co-produced by the

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. Team Film went on to produce two further full-length animated features, ''Peter-No-Tail'' (1981), which was a critical and popular success and was also released in several other countries, and '' Peter-No-Tail in Americat'' (1985), which had faster action and for which some of the animation and coloring was outsourced to

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; it made less money and received a mixed critical reception. Team Film also produced a series for small children, ''Totte'' (1973), based on books by Gunilla Wolde, and three shorts based on other children's books, ''Kattresan'' (1982), '' Sjörövarfilmen'' (1983), and '' Musikbussen'' (1994), the first two again sponsored by the Swedish Film Institute. Lasseby also

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film fact sheet, Swedish Film Institute (pdf) and TV series. Lasseby created an animation school in

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; in 1996 this became the first college-level animation training program in Sweden. He died in 1996 in Hult.

Selected filmography

* 1971 – ''Fido går till plugget'' (director, producer) * 1972 – '' Agaton Sax and the Max Brothers'' (director, producer) * 1976 - ''

'' (director, producer) * 1976 – ''Agaton Sax'' (director, producer) * 1981 - ''Peter-No-Tail'' (director) * 1982 - ''Kattresan'' (producer) * 1983 – '' Sjörövarfilmen'' (producer) * 1985 - '' Peter-No-Tail in Americat'' (director) * 1994 – '' Musikbussen'' (director)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lasseby, Stig Swedish animators Swedish animated film directors Swedish animated film producers 1925 births 1996 deaths People from Gällivare

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