Bjørn Floberg
Birthday: Born in 1947-09-12 in Tønsberg, Norge
Deathday: Alive
Bjørn Floberg (born 12 September 1947) is a Norwegian actor of film, television, and theatre. He is particularly noted for playing unsympathetic authority figures, but he has also had success playing other types of roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bjørn Floberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Silent Witness
Character:
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes....
Der Kommissar und das Meer
Character: Björn Larsson
Der Kommissar und das Meer is a German television series....
Blindpassasjer
Character: Akeron
A spaceship has 5 crew members. An alien kills one of the crew members which is replaced by a copy, but who is it?...
Varg Veum
Character: Hamre
Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway....
Varg Veum
Character: Polizeichef Hamre
Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway....
Ørnen: En Krimi Odyssè
Character: Nils Hauge
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode ori...
Ammo
Character: Ole
The Norwegian arms industry is in the midst of the introduction of artificial intelligence. Bjørn is given responsibility for a large arms deal. Who will be the scapegoat if innocents are killed with these weapons?...
Aksjemordet
Character: Skipsreder Harbitz-Larsen
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Movie Credits
Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge
Character: Jacob Hamre
An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the body is gone and the Police has arrived....
Varg Veum - Yours Until Death
Character: Jacob Hamre
Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead....
Kitchen Stories
Character: Grant
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the ini...
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Character: Rune Jensen
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in....
Cold Lunch
Character: Kildahl
Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences....
The Burning Sea
Character: William Lie
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious....
Insomnia
Character: Jon Holt
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity....
Dark Woods
Character: Gunnar
5 Norwegians head for a cabin in the wilderness for a few days of team building. But strange things start happening - especially down by the water where they find an abandoned tent. Is there someone else?...
I Am Dina
Character: Edvard, Dina's Father
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living....
Sophie's World
Character: Major Albert Knag
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?...
Beyond
Character: André
During the final days of WWII, chaos ruled. The German submarine U-461 went down along with its entire crew just off the coast of Denmark. U-461 however, was no ordinary submarine. 50 years after the war ended, two brothers go scuba diving for fun and discover that their every move is being watched and that some things should just be left alone....
Varg Veum - Fallen Angels
Character: Hamre
Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg accepts the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love. Meanwhile a serial killer is targeting members of Jacob's band and their families......
Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty
Character: Jacob Hamre
After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner....
Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers
Character: Jacob Hamre
Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly....
Uno
Character: Jarle
Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle's gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars, purchase and distribute anabolic steroids....
Varg Veum - Buried Dogs
Character: Jacob Hamre
Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the Police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally and his wife is fatally wounded. Another member of the right-wing party, Marit Holm, approaches private investigator Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked....
Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
Character: Jacob Hamre
Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl....
Varg Veum - Black Sheep
Character: Jacob Hamre
Varg Veum promises his girlfriend that he will find her sister who has vanished....
Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death
Character: Jacob Hamre
Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses....
Hører du ikke hva jeg sier!
Character: Stig
"Så sjeldent som en virkelig morsom norsk komedie. Bildene og situasjonene bytter kjapt, så heng på! En grei historie om Stand-up-mannen som mistet tråden og kona tar over showet med dundrende suksess. Uforglemmelige scener, gnistrende skuespillere og haugevis av detaljer du kommer til å mores over. Humor, utroskap og en sprø familie. Se den! "...
Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey
Character: Jacob Hamre
Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Even, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing Armakon, a weapons storage facility....
The Telegraphist
Character: Ove Rolandsen
Set against the beautiful backdrop of northern Norway, this film tells the story of a telegraphist in a very small community at the turn of the century....
Dag 1
Character:
The city must be evacuated. Everything is going to hell. But a man is on his way to town. He's going to a job interview, he's nervous and repeats over and over to himself: "Sorry I'm late... Sorry I'm late."...
90 Minutes
Character: Johan
Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising sophomore feature....
Blücher
Character: Lunde
Blücher is a 1988 Norwegian thriller film directed by Oddvar Bull Tuhus, starring Helge Jordal, Frank Krog and Hege Schøyen. Two North Sea divers who have recently been fired plan to vindicate themselves by a pioneer expedition to the wreckage of the German cruiser Blücher, at the bottom of the Oslofjord. The expedition soon becomes entangled in political intrigues....
The Honour of the House
Character: Viggó
A hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger, unselfish and humanitarian sister by hiding the shame of her younger sister's pregnancy, with the purpose of upholding the aristocratic status of their name and household. Or that is what we are told, because underneath the facade, is a story of two sisters, who have had intimacy with the same man....
Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy
Character: Jacob Hamre
Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?...
Varg Veum - Cold Hearts
Character: Jacob Hamre
Varg Veum is going to be a father. In a way he could never imagine, life takes on a new direction while he is searching for a missing pair of siblings in the prostitution circles in Bergen. Varg realizes that life will never be the same when he has to make a decision: Let the criminals go free or expose Karin to mortal danger....
The Return of the Dancing Master
Character: Lasse Rundstroem
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to......
Music for Weddings and Funerals
Character: Peter
Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder....
The Diver
Character: Claes
A thriller about deceit and the struggle for power within Eastern European mafia gangs living in exile in Sweden. Swedish fisherman Arne rescues a young Polish woman, Irena, after a mysterious incident at sea. Two people, both with a past, both determined never to fall in love again, are slowly drawn to each other. Irena has to learn to distinguish friend from foe. Arne must confront his nightmares to save the woman he loves....
Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser
Character: Jack
Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times....
Chasing Berlusconi
Character: Malte
The slightly chubby harness racer Bjarte doesn't get the good horses anymore, and is forced to enter the criminal path in order to keep menacing creditors at bay. A fatal choice of partners ends up in a failed doping attempt, and a consequent kidnapping of the top horse Berlusconi....
The Last Contract
Character: Tom Nielsen, the hitman
Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme....
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Character: Scandinavian Prime Minister
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius....
The Last Viking
Character:
The son of Viking Harald is left behind in his village with women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against the king, but the king takes revenge by overtaking the village and tyrannizing the population....
Eye of the Eagle
Character:
In 1218 Danish king Valdemar sends his homonymous young son and heir in safety, as war is at the borders, to Erskil, the bishop of Ravensburg, who is instructed to see to the prince's education. Alas the bishop is the brain of a conspiracy to seize the crown for himself, as most of the nobles are dissatisfied with the endless wars that bring them no profit. The prince and kitchen-boy Aske accidentally fall out of the castle and overhear the conspirators, but are seen and pursued by the men of th...
Frosset hjerte
Character: Amundsen (voice)
Frozen heart tells the story of Roald Amundsen, a well known polar hero from Norway....
Kjøter
Character:
A man brings home a ugly dog to annoy his wife....
Misery Harbour
Character: Johan Hoeg
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery....
Blood of the Railroad Workers
Character: Jensa-Jens
A group of migratory rail road workers arrive in a small town in Norway, and cause social conflict. One of the men, Sjugur, stands apart as a strong, independent man. The girls like him, but he has set his sights on the daughter of a wealthy landowner....
Hair of the Dog
Character: Sebastian Ramberg
A stolen bicycle case ends with drunken detective/lawyer Alexander 'Lex' Larsen having to clear Vigdis Wang of a murder charge. Unofficially based on the book Din, til døden, by Gunnar Staalesen....
O'Horten
Character: Flo
Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train driver retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly from one city in Norway to another. Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a series of dislocating experiences: a boy insists that Odd sit by his bedside while he falls asleep; misadventure causes Odd to miss his last run; he witnesses an arrest; he assists an old man and makes a friend; he takes a trip with a blindfolded driver; h...
Bloody Angels
Character: Presten
A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is murdered in the remote village Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed her go missing. A police detective is sent to investigate and finds this very challenging....
Uro
Character: Frank Hermansen
Turning his back on a delinquent past and joining the police force, HP is determined to start doing the right thing. Soon he finds himself trapped in a web of lies, stretching out from both sides of the law. HP soon realizes that his present mission is closely connected to his own past, and that everything he worked so hard to escape from, is coming back to haunt him....
Herman
Character: Far
"Herman", based on Lars Saabye Christensen's novel of the same name, tells the story of the young boy Herman who suddenly loses his hair and becomes bald at the age of eleven. It follows him through what is a very difficult period in his life, through big mood swings and irrational behaviour until he finally learns to accept himself for who he is....
The Last Lieutenant
Character: Kerlow
Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at him and his out-dated uniform and officer-rank. Secondloitnanten then finds and leads his private troop of volunteers against the German attack. The movie tells the story of a man that refuses to give up, even when everybody else leaves. He will fight ...
The Silent Majority
Character: Jesus-freak
"The Silent Majority" - Young Øystein lives in a small apartment outside Oslo, where every day is filled with everyday habits, and he is constantly looking for someone to marry. Then he meets Britt, which hates conformity and traditional values....
Kosmetikkrevolusjonen
Character: Redaktør
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...
The Crown Prince
Character: Erik
A political drama about Roald, a young man stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. Roald is politically ambitious but he does not have enough real-world savvy to protect himself from the shark-infested waters around him. After all, he has only been in office for a short time. His tendency to compromise on issues gets him into trouble in an election year when it is discovered that the CIA has been funding the Norwegian Young Labour Party....
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
Character: Wiik
A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life....
Round-Trip
Character: Uncle Swerker, Torkel's brother
11-year old Julia and Martin are tired of having to flip back and forth between their divorced parents and when they realize how much they look like, they realize to swap places. After meeting at an airport, the each embark on a journey that will change their lives forever....
Oss
Character: Fenrik
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Paper Bird
Character: Pål Brenden
The young Oslo lawyer Helen sees a man fall from a balcony, and realizes afterwards it's her father. Suicide or murder?...
An Eye for an Eye
Character: Oscar, restauranteier
While Pakistani immigrant Bashir has a love affair with a Norwegian woman, he witnesses a crime and sees a chance to blackmail the wrongdoer....
Out Stealing Horses
Character: Lars
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance....
Margrete: Queen of the North
Character: Asle Jonsson
1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union....
Clue: The Maltese Mystery
Character: Gamle-Tim
The same day that Cecilia and Une meet Leo for the first time, a corpse appears on the beach in Skutebukta. Who is he and what does he have to do with Cecilia’s mother’s death the year before?...
More Than Ever
Character: Mister
Hélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she discovers Norway and decides to follow her instinct. Despite all the love she has for her life partner Mathieu, who is very supportive through her illness, she leaves him behind in France and will cross all Europe to Norway alone in search of a new path and to meet a blogger named Mis...
The Viking Sagas
Character: Sighvat
The film chronicles a long-ago time when men relied not on their intellect to make points, but on their swords. A mythical warrior ('Ralf Moeller (I)') wanders the snow-capped landscapes of the North territories on an arduous quest for vengeance. Amid nobles and schemers, saints and brutes, and lovers and fools, this Viking swings his sword for his family's honor, his beloved's hand, and the very survival of his pitiless culture....