Arve Opsahl
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Arve Opsahl var en norsk skuespiller, sanger og komiker. Han er mest kjent for rollen som «Egon Olsen» i filmene om Olsenbanden, og siden 1990-tallet fra rollen som Henry i komiserien Mot i brøstet.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway
Birthday: May 14, 1921
Deathday: April 29, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary
Overview: A 30th anniversary special celebrating the Norwegian sitcom Mot i brøstet. Actors Nils Vogt, Sven Nordin and Hilde Lyrån share their memories.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2023-01-22
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Norwegian Building Blocks
Overview: A young couple decides to build their dream house, but run into numerous complications in the process. Everything from useless carpenters to building control gets in their way. Norwegian comedian Rolv Wesenlund plays 7 different roles in this movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1972-02-14
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry
Overview: A foreign criminal gang makes a large-scale bank coup. The suspicion falls on the Olsen Gang. They escape, take up the hunt for the real criminals and thus it all starts. The police are looking for the Olsen Gang, and they are looking for the real criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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The Olsen Gang
Overview: Egon Olsen is the leader of the Olsen Gang. While he was in the slammer, he planned how he would steal the fantastic golden figure Keizeroppzatsen.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1969-08-11
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The Olsen Gang Takes the Gold
Overview: Egon returns from prison with the key to a big heist, a hidden Nazi-treasure. The Olsen Gang finds the location of the treasure, but problems arise when the international criminals Carina and Ricco shows up.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1972-08-09
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild
Overview: Egon and the gang is about to commit their biggest heist – stealing 6 millions from an undercover operation at a freight company. The money is stored in the most advanced security vault ever constructed, guarded by professional gorillas.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1973-11-26
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The Olsen Gang meets The King and the Jackal
Overview: The Olsen Gang becomes millionaires. Unfortunately for the gang, their arch-enemies, the King and the Jack, are planning to steal the money for themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1974-08-15
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Overview: The Olsen Gang has to pay for their summer vacation in Spain, and Egon is hired to open a safe with black market money in Switzerland. He is conned, but Egon has sworn revenge.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1975-08-07
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The Olsen Gang For Full Music
Overview: Egon Olsen is commissioned to help a baron with an insurance fraud. As the dividend can finance Basse's wedding, even Valborg accepts the plans.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry On The Trail
Overview: The Olsen Gang is robbed in Spain and loses the millions they earned from their last heist. Egon has a plan to get the money back by robbing the National State Railways for a gold transport.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1977-10-11
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The Olsen Gang and Data-Harry Blows Up The World Bank
Overview: With the help of a corrupt diplomat the Olsen Gang plans to rob the World Bank, with help from the re-schooled Dynamite-Harry, now a computer expert.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1978-09-18
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Towards New Heights
Overview: An unfaithful servant in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate tries to sell top secret information to German industry leaders. Egon has a plan to earn money on the transaction himself.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1979-09-07
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The Olsen Gang Never Gives Up!
Overview: The Olsen Gang realizes that cash is obsolete with the current inflation rate, and plans a coup for property and bonds. They make a fake company and tries to buy Oslo's biggest shopping mall, Steen and Strøm.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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The Olsen Gang's Very Last Coup
Overview: The Olsen Gang is involved in a weapon trade for half a billion. It's their final coup, and Valborg is finally allowed to participate.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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But The Olsen Gang Was Not Dead!
Overview: The Olsen Gang has traveled south after the success of their last coup, but there's still someone who hasn't given up catching them.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
Overview: Fifteen years after they last saw each other, Benny, Valborg and Dynamitt-Harry discovers that Egon Olsen is out of prison and living in a retirement home. Olsenbanden is reunited, and Egon has a plan.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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Operasjon Sjøsprøyt
Overview: Foaming sea from the Royal Norwegian Navy, with a crew on duty onwards to Tromsø. Onboard speedy warships with splash from the sea, song, music and girls in every harbor. Welcome to the boys in the navy!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1964-02-10
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Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe...
Overview: Cleaning lady Lilly Hansen finds her employer, managing director Martinsen, with a knife in his back. The police is summoned and Chief Inspector Bakker is put on the case, despite suffering from the flu. When he arrives at the scene, the body is gone, to Lilly Hansen's dismay. Shortly after a body is found in nearby Palace Park...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1970-03-02
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Millionær for en aften
Overview: Shipping broker Landheim tries to save a failing theater, but falls in love. Is the broker a journalist, and the actress a prima donna? Who knows?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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Sønner av Norge
Overview: A slice of life in 'Solbråten' where citizens are concerned with everyday many chores. In particular, men busy. They struggle with a resident's association, volunteers and home protection so they hardly have time to eat before they sleep dinner. They thrown in must go into work do not life easier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Dear Little Norway
Overview: A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1973-01-17
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Latterbrøl med Arve Opsahl
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1992-05-11
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The Man Who Could Not Laugh
Overview: A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1968-02-03
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Congratulations Andersens!
Overview: Father and mother Andersen and their four children live in a closed down farmside storehouse in the outskirts of Oslo. They enjoy life here, but the many neibours surrounding them are less enthusiastic about the family's lack of respect towards the supposed social order and decency they live by.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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Operasjon Løvsprett
Overview: A group of very different men are summoned for their refresher training at Haglemoen military camp. One more strange than the other, we get to meet jovial salesman Goggen Rask, car mechanic Bottolph Johansen, nicknamed daydreamer, and ship-owner Rieber Larsen Jr. They form an unruly faction which Major Kampstrup struggles to maintain structured and prepared, not to mention keeping them inside the camp premises before they pretend sick to see the nurses Bitten and Florence. The men do their best to get through their rigourous training, with great confusion and comical situations.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Tusenårsfesten
Overview: As the new millenium approaches, Karl & Ulf ('Karl & Co') begin planning a big party, reuniting Karl with some old friends he thought he'd seen the last of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1999-12-01
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Psychedelica Blues
Overview: Four days in Lissy's life where she gets to live out her opposition and enters a completely unknown world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1969-10-16
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It Happened One Night
Overview: Based on a true story this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young woman doctor who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape for the border to neutral Sweden. Not knowing who to trust and chased by the germans, the flight quickly turns into a tense fight for their life.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1958-01-23
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The Bus
Overview: Thorvald runs a local bus route, with a 1923-model bus nicknamed 'Gamla', in the Norwegian country side. Thorvald himself always takes time to make numerous stops along his route to help out with the smallest of problems. The old man is so caring he sometimes forgets to charge money from his travelers. But modern times are lurking on the doorstep - in the figure of a grumpy county official and an offer from an outside bus company.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by
Overview: The three robbers Kasper, Jesper and Jonathan lives together with their always hungry lion in the little town of Kardemomme by, the home to a fair but kind police officer, and the strict Aunt Sofie.
Genres: Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1988-08-25
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Bør Børson Jr.
Overview: Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1974-02-05
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Hjelp - Vi får leilighet!
Overview: A classic Norwegian comedy about achieving ones own first flat...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1965-03-04
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Smugglers
Overview: For many, the happy twenties were not very happy, with high unemployment, poverty and a bitter disillusioned youth. But at the same time there was prohibition in Norway, with large-scale smuggling and easy-earned money. Ernst, an unemployed architect, stumbles onto the smuggler path, and replaces a gray, boring life with a lush, rowdy and colorful world. Klara, the girl he loves, walks away from him, and Jenny becomes his new girlfriend. Together with Hugo and Elsa, these four make a number of smuggling trips by car - with big profits - but it's not enough. So Ernst invests in boats, and that's when the really messy smuggling starts. He operates in the entire Oslo Fjord, all the way down to Rotterdam, pursued by police and customs, with his infamous torpedo boats. We follow Ernst all the way to the so-called Bygdøyslaget, where smugglers and police brutaly clash together.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: nb
Release Date: 1968-09-03
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Hjem går vi ikke
Overview: A six year old boy runs away from home with the family's big dog, a St. Berhard, who the grown ups wants to put down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1955-02-21
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Oss atomforskere i mellom
Overview: Mopedersen and Claus Grønn is starting as assistants of a professor who researchers in the use of atomic dust when a gang steals the formula and kidnaps the researchers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-08-17
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Out of Order!
Overview: A labor party leader is having an affair with the opposing party's secretary. Unfortunately for them, there seems to be a corpse in their hotel room just as they managed to sneak in unnoticed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1992-11-10
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Overview: The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends up in prision. When they return to Denmark, he has a new plan.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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A Handful of Time
Overview: Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Tips om trivsel
Overview: A door-to-door salesman tries to sell the "Super Madsen" multi-function housekeeping appliance to a series of housewives at a block of flats. The eleventh in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Sailors
Overview: Sailors (Swedish: Blåjackor) is a 1964 Swedish film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Dirch Passer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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Fengslet av Olsenbanden
Overview: A documentary film about the highly successful Norwegian movie franchise «Olsenbanden», featuring old clips and interviews with the actors and director. Originally broadcast on TV 2 Norway in 1999.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1999-02-20
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Svendsen går videre
Overview: A man who is trying to shop for some tobacco meets difficulties in the bureaucracy, when it comes to taxes and tolls, and he seems to meet himself in the doorway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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Nydelige nelliker
Overview: Classic Norwegian Comedy from the 1960's. The Capital City of Norway is changing for the alleged better after WWII, yet not everyone wants anything to change, Living in their own way, not willing to accept truth, free enterprise and each other, As a result they spend plenty of time inside prison...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1964-12-12
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Sus og dus på by'n
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1968-08-11
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På stigende kurs
Overview: Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1987-08-20
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Ja vi elsker ARVE!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Stompa til sjøs
Overview: Stompa takes on the Atlantic Ocean to surprise his origins in New York. He is mustering on a 20,000-tonne ship together with his friend Nøtterø who would like to sail the seven seas during the summer holidays.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence
Overview: As usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang members makes some kind of funny error. This time, however, even Egon's life is in danger, for some international criminals try to get rid of him by throwing him into a container filled with acid.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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Bør Børson II
Overview: Bør is startled when he discovers that his father-in-law is becoming more Norwegian than he is. The father-in-law is about to raise the village's highest flagpole. Bør can't sit still and watch, and that's why the fight and the intricacies are underway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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Knutsen & Ludvigsen
Overview: Knutsen & Ludvigsen have taken up residence in a tunnel in lack of a more suitable place to stay. But this is against the rules and norms of society. Thus, the authorities soon make their presence to demand that they show respect for the law. Knutsen & Ludvigsen are banned from the tunnel and they end up in a struggle for existence.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Music
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1974-12-19
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Glade vrinsk
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1975-02-10
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