Carsten Byhring
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Biography: Carsten Byhring (born December 8, 1918 in Christiania, died April 6, 1990) was a Norwegian actor on stage, in television and in film. His career started in high school, when he performed a small pantomimer with comedic content. The cabaret scene he debuted in 1941, by Søilen Theatre in Oslo. In the period 1947-1959 he was employed at the cabaret scene Chat Noir, but made many guest appearances at the Central Theatre, The Norwegian Theatre, the Norwegian Opera and Oslo Nye Teater. Byhring appeared often in dramatic roles but was best known for his comedic talent, and he focused in particular monologue genre. He has released several classic character performances, his interpretation of Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion is among his most famous. He had many film roles, but especially he is remembered as Kjell in the first 13 "Olsenbanden" films. He also produced and directed two films for children - Bear Patrol (1956) and On cruises with Terna (1958). Byhring was the older brother of Svein Byhring. In his last interview - which was made by See and Hear the spring of 1990 - said a parent with cancer Carsten Byhring that he had been a large consumer of cigarettes since he was 14. Yet he was unable to put away South State-cigarettes. "But I have at least begun to smoke filter cigarettes," he said humorously to See and Hear the interview. Shortly thereafter, Carsten Byhring away - he died of cancer 6 April 1990, aged 72. (Wikipedia)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway
Adult: No
Birthday: December 08, 1918
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 06, 1990
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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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Smuglere i smoking
Overview: First Norwegian film in color.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1957-01-24
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Andrine and Kjell
Overview: Andrine and Kjell are both 17, and attends a private high school. Many things disturb their way to the spring exams, and fall in love. The come from different backgrounds, but gets common problems when she rents a room at Kjells parents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1952-03-10
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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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Sønner av Norge kjøper bil
Overview: In suburbia Solbråten has some residents received bildilla. The otherwise wayward husbands forget their obligations for both work and home. There is also a great contest in having more cars in their recovery than neighboring upswing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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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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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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Closed Ward
Overview: This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common sense or good taste.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1972-03-08
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Pappa tar gull
Overview: Directed and written by Arne Skouen, «Pappa tar gull» (also known as "Daddy's Success") is a 1964 Comedy film . Sølvi Wang and Henki Kolstad are starring, alongside Carsten Winger, Jon Lennart Mjøen, Synne Skouen and Willie Hoel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1964-10-22
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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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The Bear Patrol
Overview: High summer, and eight scouts are on a hike when they discover a hidden motorbike. The bike is hidden by two post office robbers. They leave the find, but the robbers take one a hostage.
Genres: Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1956-03-24
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On a Cruise With Tern
Overview: Boy scouts get hold of a sailboat that they travel down the coast with. They get on the trail of some smugglers, whom they catch after several dramatic episodes.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1958-05-12
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Tut og kjør
Overview: Timian and Rudolf owns a car repair shop, where a 1930 Ford is the main thing, when someone steals their savings.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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Freske fraspark
Overview: Per has won the 50 kilometer in Holmenkollen, but which village is he from, Alvdal or Tynset?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-08-18
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Musicians
Overview: A caretaker at a music academy is solving most problems for the young musicians, however not only the most appropriate way. But down inside he really has a dream of his own, which goes far beyond being the caretaker.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1967-08-29
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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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Slik blir det lettere
Overview: In part 1, a married couple take care of their new baby. In part 2, Leif Juster on stage presents a series of cooking and housekeeping tips. The fourth in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".
Genres: Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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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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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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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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Kosmetikkrevolusjonen
Overview: The film opens in a small theatre, where the management of the company Clinox A/S watches their latest advertising push for the red condom Ding Dong . Everyone is excited and expect that here has been really could become a big bestseller . But the day after optimism disappears , Consumer Council prohibits the new condom . It is election year and the government is afraid the color offensive . Meanwhile, a mysterious woman named Lucy Ferner goes towards Oslo . She represents a Hong Kong group that is looking for a place where they can develop their energy consuming cosmetics industries.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1977-09-29
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The Chasers
Overview: A love triangle of two men who desire the same woman. We follow them through three days of grouse hunting, a chase that ends violently. Or does it?
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1959-08-24
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Scorched Earth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1969-02-24
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Før frostnettene
Overview: Knut Holmen turns 40, and celebrates by searching for his youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1966-01-17
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Bobby's War
Overview: Robert Lund (Roy Bjornstad) is a weary man, and his days as a starring saxophone player seem to be near their end. The Nazis have occupied Norway for some time, and he has been passing the time by telling his son Bobby (Erik Andersson) some tales of his previous exploits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1974-02-21
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Ungen
Overview: The young factory girl Milja comes in disaster on board fishing with Julius, who fails her for the beautiful and unreliable Petrina. The people from the bourgeoisie despise factory girls and their bastard, they are vile and promiscuous. In his despair will Milja give away the kid for it to get a better life than she can provide it. But Onsea-Lovisa ready to change her opinion.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1974-12-26
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Mord i det hvite hus
Overview: Based on a play by Jules Feiffer
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1972-06-27
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Alle tiders kupp
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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Kolleksjonen
Overview: The act takes place among fashion designers and owners of a small exclusive dress salon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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Møte med "Pæra"
Overview: Schoolmates 20 years later.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1964-05-02
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