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Espen Skjønberg is a Actor Norvegien born on 7 april 1924 at Oslo (Norvege)
Espen Skjønberg (born 7 April 1924) is a Norwegian actor of stage, screen and television.
Skjønberg was born in Oslo. He made his first movie appearance as a child in the 1937 Norwegian classic Fant. His stage debut came reciting poetry at the Norwegian theatre Chat Noir in 1945. He joined the Norwegian National Theatre in 1946 and become one of its most prominent figures, appearing in 64 different roles the next 60 years. As late as 2006 he co-starred with Toralv Maurstad in an adaption of Waiting for Godot.
Skjønberg's first starring role in films was in 1951's Vi vil skilles. Throughout the years he has acted alongside Tom Courtenay, Nigel Hawthorne, Susannah York, Edward Woodward, Gérard Depardieu, and co-starred with Hollywood veterans Cliff Robertson and Robert Mitchum in the 1995 movie Pakten.
He also found popularity with new generations heading the cast of Familiesagaen De Syv Søstre (1996–2000), one of Norway's first major soap operas. In the show Skjønberg co-starred with his real-life wife, actress Mona Hofland. He was also popular as the old mountain gnome Erke in the widely successful children's series Jul i Blåfjell (1999).
Skjønberg has received several awards throughout his career. Most notably the Norwegian Arts Council's Honorary Award in 1989, the Norwegian film award Amanda for best actor in 1994 (for the WW2 drama Secondløitnanten) and its Honorary Award in 2004. In 2008 he also won an Amanda for his supporting role in the movie O' Horten. He has also received the British Theatre Association's Drama Award and was made a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav by the King of Norway.
He is the son of actress Henny Skjønberg. His older brother, Pål Skjønberg, was also a successful actor and stage instructor.
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Espen Skjønberg
Birth name Espen Skjønberg
Nationality Norvege
Birth 7 april 1924 at Oslo (Norvege)
Death 26 august 2022 (at 98 years)
Nationality Norvege
Birth 7 april 1924 at Oslo (Norvege)
Death 26 august 2022 (at 98 years)
Skjønberg was born in Oslo. He made his first movie appearance as a child in the 1937 Norwegian classic Fant. His stage debut came reciting poetry at the Norwegian theatre Chat Noir in 1945. He joined the Norwegian National Theatre in 1946 and become one of its most prominent figures, appearing in 64 different roles the next 60 years. As late as 2006 he co-starred with Toralv Maurstad in an adaption of Waiting for Godot.
Skjønberg's first starring role in films was in 1951's Vi vil skilles. Throughout the years he has acted alongside Tom Courtenay, Nigel Hawthorne, Susannah York, Edward Woodward, Gérard Depardieu, and co-starred with Hollywood veterans Cliff Robertson and Robert Mitchum in the 1995 movie Pakten.
He also found popularity with new generations heading the cast of Familiesagaen De Syv Søstre (1996–2000), one of Norway's first major soap operas. In the show Skjønberg co-starred with his real-life wife, actress Mona Hofland. He was also popular as the old mountain gnome Erke in the widely successful children's series Jul i Blåfjell (1999).
Skjønberg has received several awards throughout his career. Most notably the Norwegian Arts Council's Honorary Award in 1989, the Norwegian film award Amanda for best actor in 1994 (for the WW2 drama Secondløitnanten) and its Honorary Award in 2004. In 2008 he also won an Amanda for his supporting role in the movie O' Horten. He has also received the British Theatre Association's Drama Award and was made a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav by the King of Norway.
He is the son of actress Henny Skjønberg. His older brother, Pål Skjønberg, was also a successful actor and stage instructor.
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O'Horten (2007)
, 1h30Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Baard Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby, Henny Moan, Bjørn Floberg, Lars Øyno
Roles Trygve Sissener
Rating66%
Odd Horten is an overly cautious 67-year-old man about to retire after forty years as a train driver on the route between Oslo and Bergen. As he awakes, he goes through a meticulous daily routine, as he prepares for his second-to-last time driving the train to Bergen. When he gets there, he makes small talk with Svea, who owns the boarding house where he stays when there and whom he now may never see again.
I Am Dina (2002)
, 2h5Directed by Ole Bornedal
Genres Drama
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Maria Bonnevie, Christopher Eccleston, Bjørn Floberg, Mads Mikkelsen, Hans Matheson
Roles Merchant #2
Rating64%
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. Family friend Jacob (Gérard Depardieu) encourages Dina's father to hire Jimmy Rustle, a tutor of American English, who introduces her to the cello. When Jacob asks for Dina's hand in marriage, Dina refuses. Her outraged father slaps her, prompting Dina to attack him. Known that Rustle and Dina have grown close, her father retaliates by sending Rustles away, devastating Dina. Unable to come to terms with Rustle's departure, Dina nearly kills Rustle in a fit of insanity.
Sophie's World (1999)
, 1h53Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Philosophie
Actors Andrine Sæther, Tomas von Brömssen, Silje Storstein, Bjørn Floberg, Hans Alfredson, Minken Fosheim
Roles Leonardo da Vinci
Rating58%
L'histoire commence en Norvège en 1990. Sophie Amundsen, une jeune fille, reçoit un jour dans sa boîte aux lettres une carte portant seulement les mots : « Qui es-tu ? » Une autre suit, portant les mots : « D'où vient le monde ? », puis d'autres encore. De fil en aiguille, Sophie se retrouve à lire les cours de philosophie du mystérieux Alberto Knox, qui présentent sous une forme attrayante l'histoire de la philosophie, ses grands thèmes et ses grandes figures.
The Sunset Boys (1995)
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Erland Josephson, Cliff Robertson, Hanna Schygulla, Espen Skjønberg, Robert Mitchum, Nadja Tiller
Roles Carl Berner
Rating60%
Ernest, Ted et August réalisent le dernier souhait de leur ami Carl et l'emmènent à Heidelberg, où ils se sont tous rencontrés pour la première fois il y a 45 ans, pour voir une dernière fois son ancienne petite amie. Cependant, les habitants ne parleront pas d'elle, en raison d'un secret de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Dreamplay (1994)
, 1h30Directed by Unni Straume
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bjørn Sundquist, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Mona Hofland, Espen Skjønberg
Roles Faren
Rating62%
The Last Lieutenant (1993)
, 1h42Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Espen Skjønberg, Bjørn Sundquist, Lars Andreas Larssen, Bjørn Floberg, Harald Eia
Roles Thor Espedal
Rating65%
The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German World War II occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Regiment HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at him and his out-dated uniform and discontinued second lieutenant officer-rank, that he had earned years before. He is sent with a few men to blow up a bridge. The young men laugh at him and generally ignore his advice. When the bridge fails to collapse, he does the job himself. He returns to HQ to find that its officers have voted to surrender. He leaves the HQ with a few men, taking trucks and supplies to continue the fight, often at odds with the remainder of army leadership. He rebuilds a small fighting unit with volunteers and draftees and he achieves some battlefield success. Eventually his men abandon him, and he faces a German attack alone.
The Warrior's Heart (1992)
, 1h42Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Espen Skjønberg, Anneke von der Lippe, Thomas Kretschmann, Mona Hofland, Bjørn Sundquist, Iren Reppen
Rating67%
A love story during the Second World War in Scandinavia. Ann Mari, a Norwegian, works as a nurse in the Winter War of 1939/40 between Finland and the Soviet Union. She falls in love with the Finnish soldier Markus. The war stops temporarily, and they settle down in northern Norway. Norway gets occupied by Germany and Markus leaves Ann Mari, as Finland goes to war again to win back the lost territory. A short time later Markus seems to be dead and Ann Mari falls in love with the German soldier Maximilian. But Markus soon returns alive. After a struggle for Ann Mari the three take refuge from the Germans to Sweden, but Sweden deports foreign deserters.
A Handful of Time (1989)
, 1h37Genres Drama
Actors Espen Skjønberg, Bjørn Sundquist, Minken Fosheim, Susannah York, Nigel Hawthorne, Lotte Tarp
Roles Old Martin
Rating62%
The elderly Martin believes he hears the voice of Anna, the love of his youth who died during childbirth fifty years before. Guided by her voice, Martin escapes from his nursery home and begins a journey that echoes a chain of fatal events from his past, which increasingly merge with the present.
Codename: Kyril (1988)
, 3h28Directed by Ian Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Edward Woodward, Ian Charleson, Joss Ackland, Richard E. Grant, John McEnery, Espen Skjønberg
Rating69%
In Moscow, Marshal Stanov (Peter Vaughan), the head of the KGB, realizes that there must be a traitor within the KGB Moscow Center who is leaking high-level information to MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service. He secretly sends his most trusted operative, Colonel Ivan Bucharensky (Ian Charleson), as an agent provocateur to the West in order to force the traitor to reveal himself out of fear of exposure.
On the Threshold (1984)
, 1h30Genres Drama
Actors Anne Krigsvoll, Anne Marie Ottersen, Espen Skjønberg, Grete Nordrå
Roles Kalle
Rating59%
The Witch Hunt (1981)
, 1h33Directed by Anja Breien
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama
Actors Anita Björk, Erik Mørk, Jan Hårstad, Espen Skjønberg, Lars Andreas Larssen, Jens Dyhr Okking
Rating61%
Next of Kin (1979)
, 1h35Directed by Anja Breien
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama
Actors Espen Skjønberg, Anita Björk, Jan Hårstad, Mona Hofland, Ada Kramm
Roles Jon Skaug
Rating57%
, 2h3Directed by Erik Solbakken
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Katja Medbøe, Mona Hofland, Henny Moan, Espen Skjønberg, Rolf Søder, Bjørn Floberg
Roles Spelol
Rating57%
Remonstrance (1972)
, 1h37Directed by Erik Formo Løchen
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Espen Skjønberg, Anne Marie Ottersen, Rolv Helge Wesenlund
Rating67%
Directed by Casper Wrede
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, James Maxwell, Alf Malland, Alfred Burke, Eric Thompson
Roles Tiurin
Rating70%