---
name: "Benny Andersson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/benny-andersson"
fi1m_id: "benny-andersson"
imdb_id: "nm0027630"
tmdb_id: 45799
wikidata_id: "Q214582"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "16 December 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T03:02:00.933611+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Benny Andersson

## Identity

Benny Andersson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/benny-andersson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** benny-andersson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0027630
- **TMDB ID:** 45799
- **Wikidata ID:** Q214582
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Andersson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214582, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45799

Producer. Born 16 December 1946 in Vällingby, Stockholm, Sweden.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 December 1946, Vällingby, Stockholm, Sweden
- **Also known as:** ABBA, Göran Bror Benny Andersson, Benny Anderssons orkester
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Andersson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214582, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45799

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Mamma Mia!*](https://film.one/film/mamma-mia.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer and producer. He was a member of the pop group ABBA from 1972 to 1982 and has co-composed the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla and Mamma Mia!.

Andersson served as executive producer and contributed to the music for the 2008 film adaptation of Mamma Mia!, in which he also appeared uncredited as a piano player on a boat. He has been active with his own band, Benny Anderssons orkester, since 2001.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mamma Mia!* (2008), Fi1m 72, as Piano Player on Boat (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/mamma-mia.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sverige och kriget* (2025), series, Music
- *Zara Larsson - Honor The Light* (2023), Music
- *ABBA Silver, ABBA Gold* (2023), Actor
- *Äntligen!* (2022), series, Music
- *Mashup* (2021), Music
- *Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again* (2018), as Cafe Pianist (uncredited), Songs · Lyricist, Executive Producer, Music
- *Stockholm, My Love* (2016), Music
- *ABBA - ABBA (DVD from Deluxe Edition)* (2015), Writer, Digital Producer
- *The Circle* (2015), Producer, Original Music Composer
- *Hjälp sökes* (2014), Music
- *Palme* (2012), Music
- *ABBA '80 Concert Tour in Japan* (2009), Actor
- *Chess in Concert* (2009), Music, Songs, Original Music Composer
- *Mamma Mia!* (2008), as Piano Player on Boat (uncredited) · Executive Producer, Songs, Lyricist, Music — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/mamma-mia.md)
- *You, the Living* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *ABBA - The Last Video* (2004), as Benny Andersson
- *Chess* (2003), Original Music Composer, Songs
- *Chess på svenska: The Musical That Came Home* (2003), Music Arranger
- *The Greatness of the Small Man* (2000), Music
- *Songs from the Second Floor* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Lycanthrope* (1999), as Kevin
- *Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota* (1996), Music, Songs, Lyricist
- *Dad Is Tired Again* (1996), Music
- *Ainbusk Singers: Från När till fjärran* (1993), Thanks, Original Music Composer
- *Abba - More ABBA Gold - More ABBA Hits* (1993), Actor
- *Duo jag* (1991), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Secret Friend* (1990), Music
- *Chess in Concert* (1989), as Songs · Original Music Composer, Music
- *Mio in the Land of Faraway* (1987), Original Music Composer, Music
- *Dick Cavett Meets ABBA* (1981), Actor
- *ABBA in Concert* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *ABBA: The Movie* (1977), as Benny Andersson · Original Music Composer
- *ABBA - Definitive Collector´s Edition* (1972), series, as Sänger/Keyboard/Klavier/Gitarre
- *The Seduction of Inga* (1968), Original Music Composer

## Gallery

- ![Benny Andersson](https://film.one/media/person/1459001/gallery-e7c1c4a44038.jpg) Benny Andersson — Nicho Södling, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Benny_Andersson_2012-09-24_001_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Premiere of Mamma Mia! (2008) with all four members of ABBA photographed together for the first time since 1986. From left: Benny Andersson (ABBA), Pierce Brosn](https://film.one/media/person/1459001/gallery-1db57286e17d.jpg) Premiere of Mamma Mia! (2008) with all four members of ABBA photographed together for the first time since 1986. From left: Benny Andersson (ABBA), Pierce Brosn — Daniel Åhs Karlsson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/ABBA_2008_Av_Daniel_%C3%85hs.jpg/1280px-ABBA_2008_Av_Daniel_%C3%85hs.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![cliché réalisé sur le plateau de l'émission "Les rendez-vous du Dimanche" (1980)](https://film.one/media/person/1459001/gallery-672c55021c55.jpg) cliché réalisé sur le plateau de l'émission "Les rendez-vous du Dimanche" (1980) — Pascal CARQUEVILLE, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/ABBA_Benny.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![ABBA all members (montage) (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/1459001/gallery-9aedb98a74a0.jpg) ABBA all members (montage) (2009) — The copyright of the images belong to their respective authors. Collage by 山中紘治, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/ABBA_Member.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Benny Andersson](https://film.one/media/person/1459001/gallery-37def5d19290.jpg) Benny Andersson — Image via TMDB
- ![ABBA (top: Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson. bottom: Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog) at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, 1976.](https://film.one/media/person/1459001/gallery-2f9878d370e3.png) ABBA (top: Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson. bottom: Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog) at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, 1976. — Bert Verhoeff  / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/ABBA_Schiphol_montage.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Benny Andersson of ABBA at a concert in Minnesota in 2006.](https://film.one/media/person/1459001/gallery-1e5a53a209cd.jpg) Benny Andersson of ABBA at a concert in Minnesota in 2006. — abbamouse, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Benny_Andersson.jpg/1280px-Benny_Andersson.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Commander 1st class of the Order of Vasa 2024: Commander 1st class of the Order of Vasa (won)
- Musikexportpriset 2008: Musikexportpriset (won)
- Musikexportpriset 2000: Musikexportpriset (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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