Helge Jordal
Birthday: Born in 1946-02-17 in
Deathday: Alive
Helge Jordal (born 17 February 1946) is a Norwegian actress known for his interpretations of "Jeppe på Bjerget." Jordal has had roles in several feature films, including "Orion's Belt" from 1985. For his role in this film he won an Amanda Award. King Harald V appointed on 8 June 2006 Helge Jordal Knight of St. Olav. Jordal received the award for his long and distinguished career as an actor. The bestowal of the decoration took place on 20 June 2006 in the National Theatre in the actor's hometown of Bergen. In 2009 he got Amanda Committee's Special Award på the award 21 august. In January 2011 he Ivar Medaas award. Committee's arguments were as follows: "The Committee believes Jordal is an artist who works in Ivar Medaas his spirit. Medaas was a man who took the local culture seriously, and especially Nordhordland culture and strilakulturen. "" Jordal spent in Bergen in their expressions, and thus made Bergen culture a great service, "says Berentsen.
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Nattseilere
Character: Bårr i Bekmørtna
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Eides språksjov
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Tsatsiki
Character: Mårten's Father
Little Tsatsiki, son of a single mother in Sweden, has never met his father, a Greek fisherman. Tsatsiki befriends a nice but straight-laced motorcycle policeman renting one of their rooms and decices he is the right guy for his mother, an amateur rock singer in love with her band's bass player....
Orion's Belt
Character: Tom Jansen
Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/smugglers/tourist guides Tom, Lars and Sverre discover the Soviet Union aren't just mining for coal in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This is a secret too big for any of them, and soon they find themselves hunted down by Soviet forces and secret agents....
Kjære Maren
Character: Even
Set in Rodeløkka of Kristiania eastside around the year 1900 and is a rough sketch of how it was to be young and unmarried working girl at the time....
Vegas
Character: Reidar
You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go....
Rygg i rand, to i spann
Character: Maskefjes
Two very different crimes, a post office robbery and a murder, happens at the same time. Two detectives at the Bergen police station get each their case. But could there be a connection?...
The Polar Bear King
Character: Devil
After his father is killed, Prince Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen....
Birk & Magna - The Dark Secret of the Mine
Character: Arn
Magna is seeking answers to her father's mysterious disappearance many years ago. Birk is battling outside forces to save his mountain home. Their quests lead them on a trail of an insidious environmental crime....
The Glass-Blower's Children
Character: Glass Seller
Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn enough money for his wife Sofia and the children. At a spring fair a distinguished gentleman arrives and buys all of Albert's glassware. After this nothing will be the same again. Klas and Klara are kidnapped and taken to a strange castle......
Frida - Straight from the Heart
Character: Karl
Frida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways......
Blücher
Character: Vidar Vestheim
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 Wanderers
Character: August
The story concerns Edevart (Trond Peter Stamso Munch), a young man who is learning about life an his place in it. In the story, he at first takes up with August (Helge Jordal), a charming trader who is at least half con-man. After trailing along with him for a while, he decides that August is not a man he wants to model his life after. He becomes acquainted with and falls in love with Lovise Margrete (Marika Lagercrantz) a woman living alone on a sheep farm. She has feelings for him also, but sh...
Hip Hip Hurrah!
Character: Christian Krogh
The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography....
Nattseilere
Character: Borr i bekmørtna
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Pøbel
Character:
The criminal Tom goes in and out of jail and feels he is getting destructive, where he can't distinguish between love and violence, endearment and toughness nor self realization and self destruction....
Nedtur
Character: Christian
Three people wake up in an apartment at broad daylight, after a heavy party the day before. Christian is a family man and a freelance photographer is waking up in his studio, and his friend Nils, an artist. But who is the girl?...
Snart 17
Character: Far
Marianne is going on 17, she feels too fat, and struggles with the ideals girls have to live up to to get accepted. When she meets her penpal Svein for the first time things look up, but she soon has to face new and unexpected problems when she discovers she is pregnant. Not being able to get support even from her own family, she has to make her life's most difficult decision on her own....
Buicken - store gutter gråter ikke
Character: Bent
The bothers Ken and Bent are separated when their parents are divorced, and grow up as very different persons, before they meet as grown ups. They help each other out, but some years later Bent disappears. Only his crashed Buick is found....
Sebastian
Character: Father
In this thoughtful Scandinavian drama, a teenage boy wrestles with his sexuality and learns that most of his deepest fears were unfounded. Sebastian is almost 17 when he figures out that he is a homosexual. Though he lives with wonderful, stable parents and has a good-hearted sister, he finds himself wracked with turmoil and suddenly withdraws from them all. The more they try to understand why, the more distant Sebastian becomes. Things get worse when he falls in love with the handsome Ulf, who ...
Kamilla
Character: Sverre
A young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father's adultery and mother's deep depression, as she befriends a boy....
Svart hav
Character: Slaven
In a dystopian future set in the northern part of Norway, a big corporation have stripped the sea of fish leaving locals without food and income....
A Stranger
Character:
A man is found dead under mysterious circumstances by a group of children playing in the deep forest, although the grotesque sight evokes as much curiosity as disgust....
Seagulls
Character:
During World War I in Norway, the lives of a shipping agent and his family are put under pressure when he becomes bankrupt and his wife's mentally disturbed sister comes to stay....
Hele Norges Sissel
Character: Self
Portrait of the Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø....
S/Y Joy
Character: Tomas Granberg
A young couple decides to sail around the world, hoping to get over the death of their young son. They set off in a used sailboat, whose previous owner had a fatal accident in the Bay of Biscay....
Autumn Fall
Character: Jeppe
Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs....
Tater-kristen
Character:
Tater-Kristen was born in Øvre Rendal in 1735. He falls in love with the dark and mysterious tater girl Kirsti, and joins the tater party....
Martin
Character:
A small peaceful town in Norway. But forces other than peace and tolerance are brewing beneath the surface. It all begins with Martin, a teacher, accused of being gay. The rumor spreads and also hits his friends Kjærsti and Sara, who live together. The three are deviants in people's eyes, and threaten the image of reality. In the municipal administration, two corrupt officials use the rumor to hide their own dishonesty....
Captain Sabertooth
Character: Glade Gorm (voice)
Captain Sabertooth's menacing ship, the Dark Lady, is the only one Tiny, the world's youngest priate has ever known. He dreams that one of these days Captain Sabertooth will come to see that Tiny is a real pirate and a brave one too! But Captain Sabertooth has only one thing on his mind, to discover the long lost, legendary treasure trove of Gory Gabriel. Tiny is mesmerized by the beautiful Veronica, a local girl from Luna Bay. Their destinies entwine and together they must fight fate, legend - ...
Gränslots
Character: Norwegian Police
About a Swedish family during WW2 who help their friends, relatives and refugees to cross the border from Nazi occupied Norway....
Empty Barrels 2: The Brown Gold
Character: Zorba
After a somewhat involuntary "vacation" in one of the capitals more drafty establishment Ali has had enough, and has a plan that can not go wrong, he will become law-abiding....
Hjälten
Character: Gerhard
Seventeen year old Rita grows up in an upper-class Swedish seaside society in 1965, and is very close to her father, Gerhard. Rita rejects the boys from the tennis club, and prefers to go out with Jimmi in his laundry delivery van....
Den täta elden
Character: Alex
"The Dense Fire" - Petra has left the big city for a small commune in the country. Gradually, she is pulled into an intrigue with religious undertones....
Wives
Character:
Following a drunken school reunion, Mie, Kaja and Heidrun, three school friends now in their 30s, realize how they're dominated by their husbands’ needs and demands. Aching for a taste of freedom, the trio go off on a spree....
Allodium
Character: Ansgar Berg
Anna travels back to the family farm in hopes of finding answers as to why her father killed himself....
Anne & Alet
Character: Narrator
A docudrama about the sisters Anne & Alet who killed several women with poison in the late 18th century. They were finally caught and judged to death by beheading....
Jenteloven
Character: The man
Through a bitter man's speech to a little girl, we make a journey into the role of women in history....
Kapteinen, piloten og sangerinnen
Character: The Captain
The captain and the pilot are both deeply captivated by the beautiful opera singer who performs in the opera house and competes to become her best friend, but the fight gets out of control and they are about to lose their entire friendship....
Kalle and the Angels
Character: Dad
Kalle and his dad is having a long planned summer holiday at his grandparents in the countryside, where has made a hang-glider as planned. But when the father falls down with it, and dies, only an angel keeps Kalle on his feet....
The Ox
Character: Navvy
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events....
The Seed
Character: Andreas Vest
On a small green island out in the sea, they live in harmony - until a stranger comes. Like a hurricane this rocks the small society, and a killing lets all hidden forces loose....
Cadaver
Character: Ticketer
In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family find hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they wind up the spectators or the spectacle?...
Virgins of Riga
Character:
An easy-going, Blue-eyed Norwegian businessman seeking fame and fortune in the post-cold-war Riga. His involvment with a beautiful young Latvian girl, get's him tangled into obscure business with the mafia, the Russian fleet and the 'Sons of Norway'...
Eiktyrne
Character: Lorentzen
Idunn travels to the secluded village Gunntra to bury her deceased father. They didn't speak for many years, while he was the local sheriff in Gunntra. Now he is dead. When she looks into his last case she finds horrifying statistics of disappearing children, and a theory that reveals a connection to the old mines....
Only Clouds Move the Stars
Character: Clerk
Eleven year old Maria has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together. Maria meets Jacob, who is the same age as she, but with a completely different attitude. Jacob is outgoing, exciting, funny and has wisdom way beyond his tender years. He gradually pulls Maria out of her shell and enables her to come to decisions which will affect her entire life....
Did you leave us, Blake?
Character: Self - Audience
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