Andrés Indriðason

Andrés Indriðason (7 August 1941 – 10 July 2020)[1][2] was an Icelandic television producer, director, screenwriter, playwright, author of children's books, and a child actor.[3]

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Andrés.
Andrés Indriðason
Born(1941-08-07)7 August 1941
Reykjavík, Iceland
Died10 July 2020(2020-07-10) (aged 78)
OccupationTelevision producer, author
Years active1966–2020
EmployerRÚV
Notable work
Veiðiferðin
TelevisionGettu betur
Áramótaskaupið
Spouse(s)Valgerður Ingimarsdóttir
Children2
AwardsEdda Awards

Career

Andrés worked as a producer for the public television channel Sjónvarpið from its foundation in 1966 until 1985, and has since been a freelance producer.[4] He was the executive producer of the quiz show Gettu betur for 25 years.[5]

gollark: Also Gato, by DeepMind.
gollark: Language models can actually do programming! Have you seen Codex?
gollark: The room is (depending on formulation) either a weirdly structured computer running a program which obviously does understand Chinese, or a similar program expressed as a lookup table.
gollark: I don't really agree with Chinese room arguments.
gollark: Photonic ML hardware is apparently beginning to exist and is very efficient, so that could help in a few years.

References
  1. "Andrés Indriðason". City of literature UNESCO (in Icelandic). 15 April 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  2. "Andrés Indriðason er látinn". RÚV. 2020-07-11. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  3. "Hvað varð af þeim?". Helgarpósturinn. 18 April 1980. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  4. "Andrés Indriðason". Reykjavík City Library. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  5. Hallgerður Kolbrún E. Jónsdóttir (11 July 2020). "Andrés Indriðason látinn". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 11 July 2020.


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