Lars Backman says he is the real-life model for "The Muppets," Swedish Chef. RATTVIK, Sweden, Aug. 6, 2009 — -- ABBA, Alfred Nobel, Bjorn Borg, Greta Garbo -- Sweden has many famous faces.

For Swedes, it’s the last of these questions—the one about the unintelligible, shotgun-wielding, and much beloved chaos Muppet ... same low-high-low tonality as the Swedish Chef, Riad ...

From those television appearances, Chef Bäkman believes, Jim Henson took his inspiration for the Muppet character of the Swedish Chef, who speaks in a mock-Swedish babble and uses unconventional ...