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- Julie Ege was born on 12 November 1943 in Sandnes, Norway. She was an actress, known for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), The Final Programme (1973) and Not Now Darling (1973). She was married to Alf Kruger-Monsen and Erland Skatten. She died on 29 April 2008 in Oslo, Norway.
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The daughter of a fur wholesaler in Norway, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. At 14 she was the Norwegian Skating Champion. At 15 she would win the Olympic gold medal in Skating, a feat she would repeat in 1932 and 1936. In 1936 she would turn professional and tour with her own ice show. She was signed by 20th Century-Fox and debuted in One in a Million (1936), in which she played an ice skater. The picture was very successful, Sonja continued to make a series of light comedies throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s. More a testament to her skating skills and physical appearance than her acting prowess, the films were nevertheless profitable and her popularity soared. Her films' success garnered financial success for the Hollywood Ice Revues that she produced and starred every year. Her movie career wound down during the mid-'40s, but she continued skating until she retired in 1960. An astute businesswoman and due to marrying shipping magnate Niels Onstad ("the Onassis of Norway") in 1956, Sonja was one of the ten wealthiest women in the world when she died of leukemia in 1969.- Anna-Lisa was born on 30 March 1933 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress, known for Black Saddle (1959), The Search for the Evil One (1967) and Ben Casey (1961). She died on 21 March 2018 in Oslo, Norway.
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Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20th in Stockmannsgerden in Skien. His mother was Marichen and his father was Knud, a merchant. On 1835 his father gave up his business and the family moved to Venstop, a farm in Gjerpen. In 1843 he confirmed in Gjerpen church and left home in order to apprentice to Jens Aarup Reinmann, chemist. Three years later his first son was born by Else Sophie Jesdatter. On 1849 he wrote Catiline which was published a year later. On September 26, 1850 the first Ibsen staging in history took place; the one-act The Burial Mound was performed at Cristiania Theater. Two years later he started directing productions at Det norske Theater in Bergen. From 1853 to 1877 he wrote the plays St. John's night, Lady Inger, The feast at Solhoug, Olaf Liliekrans, The Vikings at Helgeland, Love's comedy, The pretenders, Brand, Peer Gynt, The League of Youth, Emperor and Galilean and Pillars of Society and the poems Life on the Upland, Terje Vigen and Balloon letter to a Swedish lady. Meanwhile he married Suzannah Thoresen in 1858 and his second son Sigurg was born a year later. In 1878 he moved to Rome where he lived for seven years. There he started writing the circle of his 11 last plays that made him classic; A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), An Enemy of the people (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), Rosmersholm (1886), The Lady from the Sea (1888), Hedda Gabler (1890), The Master Builder (1892), Little Ejolf (1894) John Gabriel Borkman (1896) and his last one When We Dead Awaken (1898). The same year large-scale celebrations took place in Christiania, Copenhagen and Stockholm for his 70th birthday. Two years later he had his first stroke. On May 23rd 1906 he died.- Actor
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Tommy Karlsen was born on 9 June 1975 in Baerum, Norway. He was an actor, known for Death at Oslo Central (1990), Lilyhammer (2012) and De blå ulvene (1993). He was married to Birte Nordahl. He died on 6 February 2024 in Oslo, Norway.- Actor
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- Director
Jon Skolmen was born on 1 November 1940 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and writer, known for Den ofrivillige golfaren (1991), Sällskapsresan eller Finns det svenskt kaffe på grisfesten (1980) and Fortuna (1993). He was married to Kirsti Elisabeth Halvorsen. He died on 28 March 2019 in Oslo, Norway.- Sari Price was born on 9 May 1933 in Denison, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Orions belte (1985), Turnaround (1987) and The Fall Guy (1981). She was married to Mike Elliot. She died on 14 October 2003 in Oslo, Norway.
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- Additional Crew
Arve Opsahl was born on 14 May 1921 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor, known for Olsen-banden og Dynamitt-Harry går amok (1973), The Smugglers (1968) and Olsen-banden (1969). He was married to Mary Opsahl and Liv Wiise. He died on 29 April 2007 in Oslo, Norway.- Director
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- Cinematographer
Ivo Caprino was born on 17 February 1920 in Oslo, Norway. He was a director and writer, known for Owls in the Marsh (1959), The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975) and The Ashlad and the Hungry Troll (1967). He was married to Liv Bredal. He died on 8 February 2001 in Snarøya, Oslo, Norway.- Eva was born in New York, USA, with a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother, Ragni. They divorced when Eva was 6 years old and Ragni remarried the actor Uno Henning.
Eva was accepted to the Royal Dramatic Theater's acting school in 1938. She had some minor roles both on the stage and in a few movies before she got a major breakthrough with Elvira Madigan (1943). When she met Hasse Ekman in 1944 it was the start of a reciprocally useful relationship, both artistically and personally. She was slim and beatiful but he gave her roles that demanded more than just a pretty face, perhaps most of all in Banketten (1948), where she is a subjugated wife of a sadistic husband who is in complete control of her. She had other memorable roles, notably the young actress Pia in _Vandring med månen (1945)_ or as Dagmar Brink in Girl with Hyacinths (1950).
After their divorce in 1953 she married the Norwegian actor Toralv Maurstad and did a lot of work at theaters in Norway. - Actor
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Hans Erik Dyvik Husby, also known as Hank von Helvete, Hertugen (The Duke) and Hertis, most famous for being the lead vocalist of the Norwegian death-punk band Turbonegro.
Husby went through detox while living at the Moskenes island in Lofoten, Norway. Here he worked at Norsk Fiskeværsmuseum in Å, as well as working as a presenter at Moskenesradioen, a local radio station.
One of Husby's favorite singers is David Bowie. He is a supporter of FC St. Pauli, a German football-club.
According to Norwegian press, Husby was married to Heidi Riise in 2004, but they separated in 2007.
Husby is married to model Gro Skaustein (28). The couple has a daughter together, who was born on December 22, 2008.- Actress
- Producer
- Production Manager
Aud Egede-Nissen was born on 30 May 1893 in Bergen, Norway. She was an actress and producer, known for Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Das Phantom der Oper (1916) and Deception (1920). She was married to Paul Richter and Georg Alexander. She died on 6 November 1974 in Oslo, Norway.- Actress
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Kjersti Holmen was born on 8 February 1956 in Norway. She was an actress and writer, known for Blodsbånd (1998), Max Manus: Man of War (2008) and People in the Sun (2011). She was married to Reidar Sørensen. She died on 26 September 2021 in Oslo, Norway.- Bjørge Lillelien studied journalism in the USA. After that he worked in newspapers in Chicago and New York, before returning home. In 1957 he was employed by NRK (the Norwegian State Broadcasting Corporation). From 1967 he started work at their news and sports desk, and through the years gained an increasing reputation as Norway's best sports commentator on both radio and television, specializing on ski-sports and football (soccer). Through the years Lillelien delivered several memorable outbursts of joy when commenting for Norwegian radio-listeners and TV-viewers. In 1985 he published a successful autobiography, but sadly he died only two years later.
- This diminutive actress is without a doubt one of Norway's most beloved entertainer. A gripping dramatic actress as well as a world class comedienne, you wouldn't know it by looking at her. After debuting on stage just after the German occupation of Norway ended in 1945 she went on to became one of the countries most versatile performers. Her starring role as Mrs Piper (aka Lily Hansen) in the farce "Busybody" ("Skulle det dukke opp flere lik er det bare å ringe") is legendary. The part won her the Norwegian Critic's Award in 1969 and resulted in a Norwegian film version in 1970. The movie was seen by roughly 15% of the Norwegian public. On screen she was also memorable as Valborg, the wife of criminal Kjell, in 14 crime-comedies about "Olsenbanden" from 1968 to 1999. On TV she will be fondly remembered as Modern (Mom) in "Fleksnes fataliteter" (1973), the most popular sitcom in Scandinavian history. She re-teamed with "Fleksnes"-writer/director Bo Hermansson to star in two other popular sitcoms, "Fredrikssons fabrikk" in 1990 and "Nr 13" in 1999.
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Karl Sundby was born on 3 May 1953. He was an actor and writer, known for Vikingane (2016), Fortuna (1993) and Shipwrecked (1990). He died on 18 January 2020 in Oslo, Norway.- Actress
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Edith Carlmar was born on 15 November 1911 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress and director, known for A Young Woman Missing (1953), The Wayward Girl (1959) and Death Is a Caress (1949). She was married to Otto Carlmar. She died on 17 May 2003 in Oslo, Norway.- Kronprinsesse Märtha was born on 28 March 1901 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was married to King Olav V. She died on 5 April 1954 in Oslo, Norway.
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Norwegian veteran actor of both stage, TV and cinema. Debuted on the revue stage in 1941 at Oslo's Søilen Teater. An employee of the legendary Norwegian revue theatre Chat Noir from 1947 to 1959. A great flair for drama but most noted for making the field of comedy his speciality. Giving several classic character performances; his appearance on stage as Doolittle in "Pygmalion" one of his best remembered. He had several roles in norwegian cinema, fondly remembered as Kjell in the 13 "Olsenbanden"-movies. He also produced and directed two children movies; "Bjørnepatruljen" (1956) and "På tokt med Terna" (1958).- Frøydis Armand was born on 9 April 1949. She was an actress, known for Kollektivet (2011), Engler i sneen (1982) and Sigrid Undset - et kvinneliv (1993). She was married to Helge Jordal. She died on 11 October 2022 in Oslo, Norway.
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Henki Kolstad was born on 3 February 1915 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and director, known for Kampen om tungtvannet (1948), Vildanden (1963) and Det kunne vært deg (1952). He was married to Else Kolstad. He died on 14 July 2008 in Oslo, Norway.- On May 17, 1911, as Norway was jubilantly celebrating its Constitution Day, two Norwegian citizens were born in Flatbush, a sector of Brooklyn, New York. They were twins. The boy was Knut Haukelid. He was to become a leader of the Norwegian underground during World War II and is given major credit for blocking the Germans from producing and shipping "heavy water," essential to their objective of developing the atomic bomb. His exploits were depicted in the 1965 movie, "The Heroes of Telemark." The daughter, born to Bjørgulv and Sigrid Haukelid, was never depicted in a movie. Rather, her destiny was to star in movies. Sigrid Guri Haukelid was to become Sigrid Gurie.
At the time the twins were born, their father, Bjørgulv Haukelid, was working as a civil engineer with the New York Subway System, a job he had held since 1902. He left that job when the twins were less than a year old, and the Hauklids set sail for Norway (at the same time the Titanic left for its doomed maiden voyage).
Knut came back to the United States to attend Massachusetts State College, returning to Norway in 1929. He completed his education in the 1930s, attending the Dresden School of Technology and the University of Berlin. He then returned to Norway, and was working for his father's engineering firm, Haukelid og Five, when the Germans invaded the country in April, 1940.
Haukelid evaded the Nazis and became a lieutenant in Kompani Linge (Norway's most successful resistance-group during WWII). Under his command part of the group snuck into the German Heavy Water Plant at Rjukan and blew it up thus setting back German endeavours to produce a product vital to the development of an atomic bomb. Then, when the Germans decided to ship the surviving heavy water they had already stored back to Germany in barrels, Haukelid and his team snuck aboard the ferry which had to haul it across a lake, set a time-bomb on board the ferry timed to blow up at the exact time when the ferry was in the middle of the lake. The plot worked perfectly with the entire German cache of heavy water sinking to the bottom of the lake.
Hitler was stopped from being the first to produce the atomic bomb (a quest that no doubt - had it succeeded - would help the Germans win the war). The successful sabotage by Haukelid and his men gave the United States time to complete their own atomic bomb. In an impressive way the actions of Kompani Linge directly contributed to the end of WW II. Knut Haukelid's wartime deeds have been widely covered. Among the numerous high military awards bestowed on him at the war's end by five grateful nations was the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm, by the United States of America.
Knut graduated from the Norwegian Military Academy in 1948. He served as Major in the Telemark Infantry Regiment, and was later appointed Lieutenant General and head of the Home guard of Greater Oslo. After he retired, Knut often lectured, at home and abroad, on the importance of fostering and supporting resistance forces to serve behind enemy lines in wartime. In 1983, when Vice President George Bush visited in Norway, he invited Knut to a formal dinner at the American Embassy.
In the Spring of 1984, on the 40th anniversary of the sabotage action against the heavy water plant at Vemork, the survivors of the Kompani Linge group who participated in the action were honored at a reception at the residence of the American Ambassador, Mark Evans Austad. Nine of the 12 survivors were present when they were surprised with a gift of cufflinks from President Ronald Reagan, who also sent them a personal letter. They also received letters of congratulations from John W. Vessey Jr., Chief for the American High Command. Representatives of the Norwegian Parliament and the Army were also among those present when Knut Haukelid was singularly surprised and honored with an American passport (having been born in the US).
On Friday, October 18, 1985, Knut Haukelid was honored at the Second Annual Hall of Fame Banquet in Minot, North Dakota. He was one of five people named that night to the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame - again an honor due not only by his deeds but because of his birth in the United States and his holding of dual-citizenship. In later years, Knut and his wife divided their time between winters in Oslo, and summers along the coast at Lillesand, and to visits with children and grandchildren. Perhaps his last public appearance occurred during Charles Kuralt's television tribute to the heavy water saboteurs during the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway. He was taken ill soon after, and died on March 8, 1994. - Actress
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Wenche Foss was born on 5 December 1917 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress and writer, known for Vildanden (1963), Flåklypa Grand Prix (2000) and I Am Dina (2002). She was married to Thomas Stang and Alf Scott-Hansen, Jr.. She died on 28 March 2011 in Oslo, Norway.- Arne Aas was born on 7 July 1931 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor, known for Lille Eyolf (1968), Alle mine sønner (1967) and Oss (1976). He died on 3 April 2000 in Oslo, Norway.
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Turid Balke was born on 25 July 1921. She was an actress and producer, known for The 13th Warrior (1999), Bells in the Moonlight (1964) and Pastor Jarman kommer hjem (1958). She died on 5 January 2000 in Oslo, Norway.