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- Julie Ege was born on 12 November 1943 in Sandnes, Norway. She was an actress, known for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Not Now Darling (1973) and The Mutations (1974). She was married to Alf Kruger-Monsen and Erland Skatten. She died on 29 April 2008 in Oslo, Norway.
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The daughter of a fur wholesaler in Norway, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. At 14 she was the Norwegian Skating Champion. At 15 she would win the Olympic gold medal in Skating, a feat she would repeat in 1932 and 1936. In 1936 she would turn professional and tour with her own ice show. She was signed by 20th Century-Fox and debuted in One in a Million (1936), in which she played an ice skater. The picture was very successful, Sonja continued to make a series of light comedies throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s. More a testament to her skating skills and physical appearance than her acting prowess, the films were nevertheless profitable and her popularity soared. Her films' success garnered financial success for the Hollywood Ice Revues that she produced and starred every year. Her movie career wound down during the mid-'40s, but she continued skating until she retired in 1960. An astute businesswoman and due to marrying shipping magnate Niels Onstad ("the Onassis of Norway") in 1956, Sonja was one of the ten wealthiest women in the world when she died of leukemia in 1969.- Anna-Lisa was born on 30 March 1933 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress, known for Black Saddle (1959), The Search for the Evil One (1967) and Ben Casey (1961). She died on 21 March 2018 in Oslo, Norway.
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Tommy Karlsen was born on 9 June 1975 in Baerum, Norway. He was an actor, known for Death at Oslo Central (1990), Lilyhammer (2012) and De blå ulvene (1993). He was married to Birte Nordahl. He died on 6 February 2024 in Oslo, Norway.- Writer
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Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20th in Stockmannsgerden in Skien. His mother was Marichen and his father was Knud, a merchant. On 1835 his father gave up his business and the family moved to Venstop, a farm in Gjerpen. In 1843 he confirmed in Gjerpen church and left home in order to apprentice to Jens Aarup Reinmann, chemist. Three years later his first son was born by Else Sophie Jesdatter. On 1849 he wrote Catiline which was published a year later. On September 26, 1850 the first Ibsen staging in history took place; the one-act The Burial Mound was performed at Cristiania Theater. Two years later he started directing productions at Det norske Theater in Bergen. From 1853 to 1877 he wrote the plays St. John's night, Lady Inger, The feast at Solhoug, Olaf Liliekrans, The Vikings at Helgeland, Love's comedy, The pretenders, Brand, Peer Gynt, The League of Youth, Emperor and Galilean and Pillars of Society and the poems Life on the Upland, Terje Vigen and Balloon letter to a Swedish lady. Meanwhile he married Suzannah Thoresen in 1858 and his second son Sigurg was born a year later. In 1878 he moved to Rome where he lived for seven years. There he started writing the circle of his 11 last plays that made him classic; A Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), An Enemy of the people (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), Rosmersholm (1886), The Lady from the Sea (1888), Hedda Gabler (1890), The Master Builder (1892), Little Ejolf (1894) John Gabriel Borkman (1896) and his last one When We Dead Awaken (1898). The same year large-scale celebrations took place in Christiania, Copenhagen and Stockholm for his 70th birthday. Two years later he had his first stroke. On May 23rd 1906 he died.- Actress
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Aud Egede-Nissen was born on 30 May 1893 in Bergen, Norway. She was an actress and producer, known for Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Das Phantom der Oper (1916) and Deception (1920). She was married to Paul Richter and Georg Alexander. She died on 6 November 1974 in Oslo, Norway.- Director
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José Bohr was born on 3 September 1901 in Bonn, Germany. He was a director and producer, known for Luponini de Chicago (1935), Dreams of Love (1935) and Por mis pistolas (1938). He was married to Eva Limiñana. He died on 29 May 1994 in Oslo, Norway.- Eva was born in New York, USA, with a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother, Ragni. They divorced when Eva was 6 years old and Ragni remarried the actor Uno Henning.
Eva was accepted to the Royal Dramatic Theater's acting school in 1938. She had some minor roles both on the stage and in a few movies before she got a major breakthrough with Elvira Madigan (1943). When she met Hasse Ekman in 1944 it was the start of a reciprocally useful relationship, both artistically and personally. She was slim and beatiful but he gave her roles that demanded more than just a pretty face, perhaps most of all in Banketten (1948), where she is a subjugated wife of a sadistic husband who is in complete control of her. She had other memorable roles, notably the young actress Pia in _Vandring med månen (1945)_ or as Dagmar Brink in Girl with Hyacinths (1950).
After their divorce in 1953 she married the Norwegian actor Toralv Maurstad and did a lot of work at theaters in Norway. - Actor
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Jon Skolmen was born on 1 November 1940 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and writer, known for Den ofrivillige golfaren (1991), Sällskapsresan eller Finns det svenskt kaffe på grisfesten (1980) and Fortuna (1993). He was married to Kirsti Elisabeth Halvorsen. He died on 28 March 2019 in Oslo, Norway.- Actor
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Arve Opsahl was born on 14 May 1921 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor, known for Olsen-banden og Dynamitt-Harry går amok (1973), The Smugglers (1968) and Olsen-banden (1969). He was married to Mary Opsahl and Liv Wiise. He died on 29 April 2007 in Oslo, Norway.- Director
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Ivo Caprino was born on 17 February 1920 in Oslo, Norway. He was a director and writer, known for Owls in the Marsh (1959), The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975) and The Ashlad and the Hungry Troll (1967). He was married to Liv Bredal. He died on 8 February 2001 in Snarøya, Oslo, Norway.- Sari Price was born on 9 May 1933 in Denison, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Orions belte (1985), Turnaround (1987) and The Fall Guy (1981). She was married to Mike Elliot. She died on 14 October 2003 in Oslo, Norway.
- On May 17, 1911, as Norway was jubilantly celebrating its Constitution Day, two Norwegian citizens were born in Flatbush, a sector of Brooklyn, New York. They were twins. The boy was Knut Haukelid. He was to become a leader of the Norwegian underground during World War II and is given major credit for blocking the Germans from producing and shipping "heavy water," essential to their objective of developing the atomic bomb. His exploits were depicted in the 1965 movie, "The Heroes of Telemark." The daughter, born to Bjørgulv and Sigrid Haukelid, was never depicted in a movie. Rather, her destiny was to star in movies. Sigrid Guri Haukelid was to become Sigrid Gurie.
At the time the twins were born, their father, Bjørgulv Haukelid, was working as a civil engineer with the New York Subway System, a job he had held since 1902. He left that job when the twins were less than a year old, and the Hauklids set sail for Norway (at the same time the Titanic left for its doomed maiden voyage).
Knut came back to the United States to attend Massachusetts State College, returning to Norway in 1929. He completed his education in the 1930s, attending the Dresden School of Technology and the University of Berlin. He then returned to Norway, and was working for his father's engineering firm, Haukelid og Five, when the Germans invaded the country in April, 1940.
Haukelid evaded the Nazis and became a lieutenant in Kompani Linge (Norway's most successful resistance-group during WWII). Under his command part of the group snuck into the German Heavy Water Plant at Rjukan and blew it up thus setting back German endeavours to produce a product vital to the development of an atomic bomb. Then, when the Germans decided to ship the surviving heavy water they had already stored back to Germany in barrels, Haukelid and his team snuck aboard the ferry which had to haul it across a lake, set a time-bomb on board the ferry timed to blow up at the exact time when the ferry was in the middle of the lake. The plot worked perfectly with the entire German cache of heavy water sinking to the bottom of the lake.
Hitler was stopped from being the first to produce the atomic bomb (a quest that no doubt - had it succeeded - would help the Germans win the war). The successful sabotage by Haukelid and his men gave the United States time to complete their own atomic bomb. In an impressive way the actions of Kompani Linge directly contributed to the end of WW II. Knut Haukelid's wartime deeds have been widely covered. Among the numerous high military awards bestowed on him at the war's end by five grateful nations was the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm, by the United States of America.
Knut graduated from the Norwegian Military Academy in 1948. He served as Major in the Telemark Infantry Regiment, and was later appointed Lieutenant General and head of the Home guard of Greater Oslo. After he retired, Knut often lectured, at home and abroad, on the importance of fostering and supporting resistance forces to serve behind enemy lines in wartime. In 1983, when Vice President George Bush visited in Norway, he invited Knut to a formal dinner at the American Embassy.
In the Spring of 1984, on the 40th anniversary of the sabotage action against the heavy water plant at Vemork, the survivors of the Kompani Linge group who participated in the action were honored at a reception at the residence of the American Ambassador, Mark Evans Austad. Nine of the 12 survivors were present when they were surprised with a gift of cufflinks from President Ronald Reagan, who also sent them a personal letter. They also received letters of congratulations from John W. Vessey Jr., Chief for the American High Command. Representatives of the Norwegian Parliament and the Army were also among those present when Knut Haukelid was singularly surprised and honored with an American passport (having been born in the US).
On Friday, October 18, 1985, Knut Haukelid was honored at the Second Annual Hall of Fame Banquet in Minot, North Dakota. He was one of five people named that night to the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame - again an honor due not only by his deeds but because of his birth in the United States and his holding of dual-citizenship. In later years, Knut and his wife divided their time between winters in Oslo, and summers along the coast at Lillesand, and to visits with children and grandchildren. Perhaps his last public appearance occurred during Charles Kuralt's television tribute to the heavy water saboteurs during the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway. He was taken ill soon after, and died on March 8, 1994. - Gunnar Tolnæs was a trained actor with an extensive career on the stage, including Nationalteatret in Oslo. Made his film debut in Swedish films working with Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström. Came to Denmark in 1915 and worked exclusively for Nordisk Film, where he soon became their biggest attraction after Valdemar Psilander left the studio in 1916. A favorite with the ladies the tall, stately Norwegian with the slumbering eyes thrilled audiences playing men of authority especially maharajahs in a string of dramas. However, having made a fortune and growing tired of 'sheik films',as he called them, he retired early.
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The popular actress Kirsten Heiberg belonged to a small club of Norwegian actresses who became famous in foreign films. She had a fine film career in Germany in the thirties and forties, in musicals, crime, and spy films, often seen as a foreign "femme fatal". Her stage debut came in Bergen in 1929, later she worked in several small theaters in Oslo. Made her first film appearance in 1934, than she acted in both Norwegian and Swedish films until she settled in Germany, marrying composer Franz Grothe in 1938. Among her best known films are: Napoleon ist an allem schuld (1938) and Liebespremiere (1943) After the war she returned to Norway and worked at the theater in Trondheim from 1952 to 1960. Last film-part in a film by Nils R. Müller in 1966. "Die Heiberg", as she was called in Germany, died on March the second 1976, near the age of 69.- Actor
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Hans Erik Dyvik Husby, also known as Hank von Helvete, Hertugen (The Duke) and Hertis, most famous for being the lead vocalist of the Norwegian death-punk band Turbonegro.
Husby went through detox while living at the Moskenes island in Lofoten, Norway. Here he worked at Norsk Fiskeværsmuseum in Å, as well as working as a presenter at Moskenesradioen, a local radio station.
One of Husby's favorite singers is David Bowie. He is a supporter of FC St. Pauli, a German football-club.
According to Norwegian press, Husby was married to Heidi Riise in 2004, but they separated in 2007.
Husby is married to model Gro Skaustein (28). The couple has a daughter together, who was born on December 22, 2008.- Actor
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Trond Kirkvaag was born on 21 June 1946 in Norway. He was an actor and writer, known for Brødrene Dal og Vikingsverdets Forbannelse (2010), Brødrene Dal og spektralsteinene (1982) and Brødrene Dal og professor Drøvels hemmelighet (1979). He died on 16 November 2007 in Oslo, Norway.- Actress
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Kjersti Holmen was born on 8 February 1956 in Norway. She was an actress and writer, known for Blodsbånd (1998), Max Manus: Man of War (2008) and People in the Sun (2011). She was married to Reidar Sørensen. She died on 26 September 2021 in Oslo, Norway.- Actor
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Per Christensen was born on 18 July 1934 in Norway. He was an actor, known for Elling (2001), Love Me Tomorrow (2005) and Vestavind (1994). He died on 26 August 2009 in Oslo, Norway.- This diminutive actress is without a doubt one of Norway's most beloved entertainer. A gripping dramatic actress as well as a world class comedienne, you wouldn't know it by looking at her. After debuting on stage just after the German occupation of Norway ended in 1945 she went on to became one of the countries most versatile performers. Her starring role as Mrs Piper (aka Lily Hansen) in the farce "Busybody" ("Skulle det dukke opp flere lik er det bare å ringe") is legendary. The part won her the Norwegian Critic's Award in 1969 and resulted in a Norwegian film version in 1970. The movie was seen by roughly 15% of the Norwegian public. On screen she was also memorable as Valborg, the wife of criminal Kjell, in 14 crime-comedies about "Olsenbanden" from 1968 to 1999. On TV she will be fondly remembered as Modern (Mom) in "Fleksnes fataliteter" (1973), the most popular sitcom in Scandinavian history. She re-teamed with "Fleksnes"-writer/director Bo Hermansson to star in two other popular sitcoms, "Fredrikssons fabrikk" in 1990 and "Nr 13" in 1999.
- Marianne Ihlen was born on 18 May 1935 in Larkollen, Norway. She was married to Jan Stang and Axel Jensen. She died on 29 July 2016 in Oslo, Norway.
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Minken Fosheim was born on 20 March 1956 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress and writer, known for Karl & Co (1998), Fortuna (1993) and Tusenårsfesten (1999). She was married to André Wienskol. She died on 7 June 2018 in Oslo, Norway.- Actor
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Bjørn Jenseg was born on 28 July 1932 in Sarpsborg, Norway. He was an actor, known for The Bothersome Man (2006), Den som henger i en tråd (1980) and Kong Sverre (1978). He died on 4 March 2008 in Oslo, Norway.- Bjørge Lillelien studied journalism in the USA. After that he worked in newspapers in Chicago and New York, before returning home. In 1957 he was employed by NRK (the Norwegian State Broadcasting Corporation). From 1967 he started work at their news and sports desk, and through the years gained an increasing reputation as Norway's best sports commentator on both radio and television, specializing on ski-sports and football (soccer). Through the years Lillelien delivered several memorable outbursts of joy when commenting for Norwegian radio-listeners and TV-viewers. In 1985 he published a successful autobiography, but sadly he died only two years later.
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Euronymous was born on 22 March 1968 in Norway. He died on 10 August 1993 in Oslo, Norway.- Frank Krog was born on 5 October 1954 in Bergen, Norway. He was an actor, known for Shipwrecked (1990), Blücher (1988) and North Star (1996). He died on 23 December 2008 in Oslo, Norway.
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Edith Carlmar was born on 15 November 1911 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress and director, known for A Young Woman Missing (1953), The Wayward Girl (1959) and Death Is a Caress (1949). She was married to Otto Carlmar. She died on 17 May 2003 in Oslo, Norway.- Ingerid Vardund was born on 24 April 1927 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress, known for Jentespranget (1973), Fru Inger til Østråt (1975) and Høyfeber (1965). She was married to Røsting, Øivind, Carsten Byhring and Heflin, William. She died on 25 December 2006 in Oslo, Norway.
- Arne Aas was born on 7 July 1931 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor, known for Lille Eyolf (1968), Alle mine sønner (1967) and Oss (1976). He died on 3 April 2000 in Oslo, Norway.
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Karl Sundby was born on 3 May 1953. He was an actor and writer, known for Vikingane (2016), Fortuna (1993) and Shipwrecked (1990). He died on 18 January 2020 in Oslo, Norway.- Nephew of Leif Juster. Fabulous singer and entertainer, famous for impersonating other Norwegian celebrities. he was a frequent guest in Norwegian television where he used to do skits, playing all parts himself. Died on stage while performing at Oslo Nye Theatre.
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Henki Kolstad was born on 3 February 1915 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and director, known for Kampen om tungtvannet (1948), Vildanden (1963) and Det kunne vært deg (1952). He was married to Else Kolstad. He died on 14 July 2008 in Oslo, Norway.- Cinematographer
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Erling Thurmann-Andersen was born on 12 June 1945. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Insomnia (1997), Pathfinder (1987) and Prozac Nation (2001). He died on 3 November 2002 in Oslo, Norway.- Director
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Tancred Ibsen was born on 11 July 1893 in Gausdal, Norway. He was a director and writer, known for Venner (1960), Valfångare (1939) and Gjest Baardsen (1939). He was married to Lillebil Ibsen. He died on 4 December 1978 in Oslo, Norway.- Actor
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Trond Brænne was born on 31 July 1953 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and writer, known for Fortuna (1993), The Longest Journey (1999) and Skáidi (1995). He died on 16 March 2013 in Oslo, Norway.- Actor
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Norwegian veteran actor of both stage, TV and cinema. Debuted on the revue stage in 1941 at Oslo's Søilen Teater. An employee of the legendary Norwegian revue theatre Chat Noir from 1947 to 1959. A great flair for drama but most noted for making the field of comedy his speciality. Giving several classic character performances; his appearance on stage as Doolittle in "Pygmalion" one of his best remembered. He had several roles in norwegian cinema, fondly remembered as Kjell in the 13 "Olsenbanden"-movies. He also produced and directed two children movies; "Bjørnepatruljen" (1956) and "På tokt med Terna" (1958).- Norwegian traitor Vidkun Quisling was born in 1887. An army officer, he served as military attaché in Petrograd from 1918-19 and in Helsinki from 1919-21, later assisting Fridtjof Nansen in relief work in Russia. He was Norwegian minister of defense from 1931 to 1933. He then left the Agrarian party to found the fascist Nasjonal Samling [National Unity] party. In 1940 he secretly aided Germany in its invasion and conquest of Norway, and as a reward was installed by the Germans as head of the collaborationist Norwegian government. Almost universally despised in Norway, and not particularly popular with his German masters, he nevertheless remained in power until May of 1945, when he was arrested after the Germans in Norway surrendered. He was tried by the post-occupation Norwegian government for high treason, convicted, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad. From his last name has come the commonly accepted epithet for one who turns traitor and collaborates with the enemy: "quisling".
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Arne Skouen was born on 18 October 1913 in Oslo, Norway. He was a writer and director, known for Nine Lives (1957), Fire in the Night (1955) and Cirkus Fandango (1954). He died on 24 May 2003 in Oslo, Norway.- Actress
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Harriet Bosse was born on 19 February 1878 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress and writer, known for Kameraden (1919), Ingmarssönerna (1919) and Bombi Bitt och jag (1936). She was married to Edvin Adolphson, Wingård, Gunnar and August Strindberg. She died on 2 November 1961 in Oslo, Norway.- Actress
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Wenche Foss was born on 5 December 1917 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress and writer, known for Vildanden (1963), Flåklypa Grand Prix (2000) and I Am Dina (2002). She was married to Thomas Stang and Alf Scott-Hansen, Jr.. She died on 28 March 2011 in Oslo, Norway.- Elsa Lystad was born on 9 July 1930 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress, known for Fredrikssons fabrikk - The movie (1994), Fredrikssons fabrikk (1990) and Sweetwater (1988). She was married to Arpad Robert Istvan Szemes . She died on 26 December 2023 in Oslo, Norway.
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Norwegian jazz musician and experimental, director, writer and editor, born May 22nd 1924, has made himself a substantial place in Norwegian film history. He came to film from Theater, and was war prisoner during WW2. Mostly known for short films, and was from 1981 to his death in 1983 artistic leader of Norsk Film. He is also grandfather of film maker Joachim Trier (on his mothers side).- Director
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Walter Fyrst was born on 6 June 1901 in Oslo, Norway. He was a director and writer, known for Hjem går vi ikke (1955), Slik blir det lettere - Husmorfilmen 1956 (1956) and Brudekronen (1944). He died on 22 February 1993 in Oslo, Norway.- Actress
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Grethe Kausland was born on 3 July 1947 in Horten, Norway. She was an actress, known for Far til fire og ulveungerne (1958), Far til fire og onkel Sofus (1957) and Vi spillopper (1979). She died on 16 November 2007 in Oslo, Norway.- Handsome Norwegian character actor, born with acting in his blood as son of the Norwegian actress Aud Egede-Nissen, (later Aud Richter) and the German actor Georg Alexander (1888-1945). Also grandson of the German stage actor Georg Luddeckens, and nephew of six actors/actresses from the Egede-Nissen family! Showed great interest for the acting profession from early age on, and got his education for the stage in America. Stage debut at Søilen Theatre in Oslo 1938, the year after he got a leading role in the film: "De Vergeløse" ("The Defenceless") as the adolescent Albert, a great debut. During the war he joined the Norwegian military forces in Sweden, when the war ended in spring 1945,he continued his acting career in both films and on the stage. At his best in comedy, but also very good appearances in the plays of: Brecht: "The Threepenny Opera" (as Mackie) and Ionesco: "Rhinocèros" (as Bèrenger). His film work included melodramas and comedies, like the chief of police in two films in the "Olsen-Banden" series. Richter died at the age of 56 in May 1972.
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Born in Stranstuen, Hamar, Norway, Norwegian soprano Kisten Flagstad's father was a conductor, and her mother was a singing coach and pianist as well as her first teacher. Flagstad continued her studies in Oslo with Ellen Schyte-Jacobsen and in Stockholm with Dr. Gillis Bratt. While still a student, she made her début at the National Theater in Oslo in 1913 as Nuri in D'Albert's Tiefland. For the next 18 years she sang exclusively in Scandinavia, performing in opera, operetta and musical comedy. Flagstad's first Isolde in Oslo in 1932 led to Bayreuth engagements in minor parts in 1933 and to roles as Sieglinde and Gutrune in 1934. Later in 1934, Flagstad turned her sights on North America and auditioned at the Metropolitan Opera to succeed the reigning Wagnerian soprano Frida Leider. Her unheralded Met début as Sieglinde, broadcast nationwide on February 2, 1935, created a sensation. Four days later, she sang Isolde, and later that month, performed Brünhilde in Die Walküre and Die Götterdämmerung for the first time. Almost overnight she was regarded as the pre-eminent Wagnerian soprano of her generation. Later that season, Flagstad also sang Elsa, Elisabeth, and her first Kundry. Fidelio (1936) was her only non-Wagnerian role at the Met before the war. She sang the same repertory in San Francisco in 1935-38 and in Chicago in 1937.
In 1936 and 1937 she performed the roles of Isolde, Brünhilde and Senta at Covent Garden under Sir Thomas Beecham, Fritz Reiner and Wilhelm Furtwängler, arousing as much enthusiasm there as in New York. In 1941 Flagstad returned to Nazi-occupied Norway to join her second husband, whose collaboration with the Nazis led to his arrest after World War II. Although her own wartime record was free from controversy, her return to Norway during the war and a certain political naïvété in her nature created much ill-feeling towards her, particularly in the USA.
During four consecutive Covent Garden seasons, from 1948 to 1951, Flagstad repeated all her regular Wagnerian roles, including Kundry and Sieglinde. She returned to San Francisco in 1948 but was not invited back to the Metropolitan Opera until Sir Rudolph Bing became manager. In the 1950-1951 season, although she was well into her 50s, she showed herself still in remarkable form as Isolde, Brünnhilde and Fidelio. Flagstad's final role at the Metropolitan Opera was as Alceste in Gluck's opera. Her final operatic performances were as Purcell's Dido at the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1953. Flagstad continued to record and sing concerts, and was director of the Norwegian National Opera from 1958-1960.
The enduring purity, beauty and power of Flagstad's tone probably owed much, not only to natural gifts and sound training, but to the enforced repose of the war years and the fact that she had undertaken no heavy roles until middle life. She was regarded as an impeccable musician in matters of rhythm and intonation. While she was not the most dramatic or magnetic of Wagnerian heroines, no one within living memory surpassed her sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone. Of her many records, the complete Tristan und Isolde with Furtwängler undoubtedly offers the finest memorial to her interpretive art in its maturity. Her pre-war recordings, however, showcase her voice in its freshest brilliance and clarity.- Actor
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Harald Heide-Steen Jr. was born on 18 August 1939 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and director, known for Fortuna (1993), Flåklypa Grand Prix (2000) and Sommer i byen (1962). He died on 3 July 2008 in Oslo, Norway.- Ines Prange was born in 1967 in Norway. She was an actress, known for Mammon (2014), Johnny og Johanna (2004) and Brigaden (2002). She was married to Thomas. She died on 20 December 2016 in Oslo, Norway.
- Frøydis Armand was born on 9 April 1949. She was an actress, known for Kollektivet (2011), Engler i sneen (1982) and Sigrid Undset - et kvinneliv (1993). She was married to Helge Jordal. She died on 11 October 2022 in Oslo, Norway.
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He was born Erik Erikssøn Bye in Brooklyn, New York in 1926 to Norwegian parents. The family returned home to Norway when Erik was to begin school. After a few years at Ringerike, Norway, they moved to Nordstrand - a suburb to Oslo. As a teenager he got involved in the resistance movement fighting the Germans occupying norway. He ended up having to escape to Sweden, where he joined the "Norwegian policetroops" (whose part it was to keep the peace and arrest war-criminals when the war ended in 1945 and they could all return home).
After World War II he went back to the United States to study English, and finally he got a degree in journalism and drama at Midland Collega in Nebraska and the University of Wisconsin. In 1953 he started his career as a journalist in the American news agency Associated Press' Norwegian office. The same year he married politician Tove Bye.
He also worked for the BBC in London before beginning his long-term relationship with NRK (Norwegian National Broadcasting) in 1958, first in radio and later in television. He was to become the biggest and most popular name in Norwegian broadcasting hosting several extremely popular TV shows. In one special christmas show he surprised a female guest with Santa Claus who - when he pulled off his mask - turned out to be his husband who she thought was in Hong Kong. Another time he had a hilarious interview with Danny Kaye and even did a comedy sketch spoofing westerns with actor 'Ken Curtis' who played Festus in the then popular "Gunsmoke". As late as 1992 he enjoyed one of his greatest successes on the small screen with his TV series "Jakten på Mangas Coloradas" - an historic exploration with the Apaches in America. With a strong love for America he also spent his entire life spotlighting the injustice native Americans had endured through the years.
To Norwegians Erik Bye was not just a reporter, or a journalist or a tv-star, he was also a highly successful recording artist as well as a respected author and one of his generations leading poets. The poem "Vårherres klinkekule" (Our Lords Marble) is one of the most beloved in the history of Norwegian poetry. To top it all off he was also an actor, co-starring in legendary director Arne Skouen's 1966 movie "Reisen til havet". He was also well-known for his love of the sea, and his commitment to the sailors of World War II and Norwegian seamen in general.
The last years of his life he battled cancer, but the illness would not stop him from touring as a performer as late as one month prior to his death on October 13th, 2004, at the age of 78. The death of this, the most award winning and beloved star of radio and television in Norway made huge headlines in Norway. He was survived by his family including Tove, his wife of over fifty years.