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Åke Helge Ortmark (14 May 1929 – 18 October 2018) was a Swedish journalist, author and radio and television presenter. During a long career he worked for both television and radio. He was born in Stockholm. He started working at Sveriges Radio in 1958.

Ortmark became the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Veckans Affärer between 1974 and 1976. In 1997 he was the television presenter for his own interview show O som i Ortmark which was broadcast on TV8 until 2006.

Ortmark died on 18 October 2018 in Stockholm of pneumonia at the age of 89.