Background
Wolgers was born in Stockholm, Sweden and was the son of forest ranger John Wolgers and Gerda (née Korsgren).
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Wolgers was born in Stockholm, Sweden and was the son of forest ranger John Wolgers and Gerda (née Korsgren).
He attended Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, United States of America from 1947 to 1948 and Poppius journalistskola and Otte Skölds målarskola from 1946-1947.
Wolgers was a journalist at Stockholms-Tidningen from 1960 to 1961. He wrote about a thousand songs and specialized in putting Swedish lyrics to foreign tunes like "Walkin" My Baby Back Home", "Waltz for Debby", "Dat Dere", "Take Five" and "Bachianas brasileiras" no 5. He also made several books and films for children, and did a famous series as a slightly crazy goodnight story teller for children in Swedish television 1968-1974 and, as notable, the father of Pippi Longstocking in the 1969 television series.
He died in Östersund from a peptic ulcer.