Arve Opsahl
Birthday: Born in 1921-05-14 in Oslo, Norway
Deathday: 2007-04-29
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.
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Mot i brøstet
Character: Henry Rasmus Pettersen
Follows Karl (Nils Vogt), economist and accountant, after he is fired from his job and subsequently divorced by his greedy wife. After being helped out by his former colleague, Nils (Sven Nordin) and a travelling salesman, Henry (Arve Opsahl), the three become roommates....
The Julekalender
Character: Good Old Gammel Nok
The Julekalender is a Norwegian Christmas season television series produced by and starring Travellin' Strawberrys in collaboration with Saks Film and Entertainment and TV 2, 1994. Around 400,000 viewers followed the series in December 1994, and it has since been broadcast anew in 1996, 2003, 2008 and 2012. It was based on the Danish series The Julekalender from 1991, which also inspired a Finnish version in 1997. The original concept and script of the series, as well as its numerous songs came ...
Kontorsjef Tangen
Character: Rørleggeren
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Movie Credits
Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary
Character: Archive footage
A 30th anniversary special celebrating the Norwegian sitcom Mot i brøstet. Actors Nils Vogt, Sven Nordin and Hilde Lyrån share their memories....
Norske byggeklosser
Character: Kleppe
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....
The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang Takes the Gold
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang meets The King and the Jackal
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang For Full Music
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry On The Trail
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang and Data-Harry Blows Up The World Bank
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Towards New Heights
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang Never Gives Up!
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang's Very Last Coup
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
But The Olsen Gang Was Not Dead!
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
Character: Egon Olsen
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....
Operasjon Sjøsprøyt
Character: Bottolph Johansen, kokk
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!...
Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe...
Character: Overbetjent Henry Bakker
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......
Millionær for en aften
Character: Knut Møller
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?...
Sønner av Norge
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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....
Dear Little Norway
Character: Various
A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972....
The Man Who Could Not Laugh
Character: Himself
A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist....
Congratulations Andersens!
Character: Carl Alfred Andersen
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....
Operasjon Løvsprett
Character: Bottolph Johansen, bilrepratør
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...
Tusenårsfesten
Character: Henry Pettersen
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....
Psychedelica Blues
Character: Hans Korsmo
Four days in Lissy's life where she gets to live out her opposition and enters a completely unknown world....
The Bus
Character: Måsabjønn
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....
Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by
Character: Kjøpmann Berg
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....
Bør Børson Jr.
Character: Ohlzén
Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway....
Hjelp - Vi får leilighet!
Character: Madsen
A classic Norwegian comedy about achieving ones own first flat......
Smugglers
Character: Karlsen
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 s...
Hjem går vi ikke
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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....
Oss atomforskere i mellom
Character: Mo-Pedersen
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....
Out of Order!
Character: Rasmus Lange
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....
The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Character: Knut (uncredited)
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....
A Handful of Time
Character: Hannibal
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....
Sailors
Character: Månsson
Sailors (Swedish: Blåjackor) is a 1964 Swedish film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Dirch Passer....
Fengslet av Olsenbanden
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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....
Nydelige nelliker
Character: Slegga
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......
Sus og dus på by'n
Character: Slegga
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På stigende kurs
Character: Politimester
Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last....
Ja vi elsker ARVE!
Character:
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Stompa til sjøs
Character: Båsen
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....
The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence
Character: Norwegian at Airport (uncredited)
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....
Bør Børson II
Character: Milljonær Ohlzén
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....
Knutsen & Ludvigsen
Character: Kaptein Knutsen
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....
Glade vrinsk
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