Sven Nordin

Sven Nordin

Born: February 6, 1957
in Oslo, Norway
This Norwegian actor is an employee of Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo's New Theatre) since 1981. On stage he has starred in everything from Shakespeare to modern drama like Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie, and musicals like Guys and Dolls. Got his big breakthrough as a Norwegian resistance fighter in the suspenseful WWII mini-series "Röd snö" in 1985. In 1993-97 he starred as Nils in "Mot i brøstet", if not the best, certainly one of the most popular Norwegian sitcom's off all time, even resulting in him getting a snack named after his character! On the big screen he also got the chance to act opposite Robert Mitchum and Cliff Robertson in the Norwegian movie "Pakten" in 1995. In 2001 he played an arctic explorer opposite Kenneth Branagh's Ernest Shackleton in the large-scale TV-production "Shackleton". 2001 also saw his biggest success on screen yet, when he starred as the slightly retarted Kjell-Bjarne in "Elling". The movie was seen by over 800,000 Norwegian cinema-goers (in a country with just 4.2 million people) and also became the most successful Norwegian film ever shown in Sweden and Denmark. In 2002 Nordin joined his co-star Per Christian Ellefsen, director Petter Næss and producer Dag Alveberg on a trip to Hollywood, celebrating the movie's Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. - IMDb Mini Biography

Movies for Sven Nordin...

Title: Familjen Andersson
Character: Oddvar
Released: August 25, 2023
Type: TV
Karin, Rudolf and their three children Anna, Sune and Håkan live in the small town of Glimmerdagg. Just like all parents, they try to make the everyday puzzle work, it's just that everyday life is rarely mundane with this family.
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Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary
Title: Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary
Character: Himself
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A 30th anniversary special celebrating the Norwegian sitcom Mot i brøstet. Actors Nils Vogt, Sven Nordin and Hilde Lyrån share their memories.
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Gold Run
Title: Gold Run
Character: Odd Henry
Released: December 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Fredrik isn’t the bravest of men, but now he is faced with a great responsibility and an enormous task - to get the entire Norwegian gold reserve away from the Nazis during the invasion of Norway.
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Title: Helt Harald
Character: Himself
Released: February 1, 2021
Type: TV
Throughout his life, Harald Rønneberg has done things he can't manage. Now he will get very familiar with a bunch of inspiring Norwegians and together they will complete eight challenges Harald has dreamed of for a long time. Because as he usually says: There is a limit to how much shit can go!
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Asphalt Burning
Title: Asphalt Burning
Character: Doffen
Released: October 14, 2020
Type: Movie
The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the famous racing track, Nürburgring.
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Title: Granddad
Character: Jonny
Released: September 12, 2020
Type: TV
When Johnny Håland is kicked out on the street, the colourful but broke 60-something ladies man turns to his son for a place to live. Granddad is a comedy about modern family life when three generations are forced to live under the same roof.
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Title: Wisting
Character: William Wisting
Released: April 11, 2019
Type: TV
Empathetic, meticulous and relentless - the only thing to escape Larvik detective William Wisting in his hunt for Norway's most notorious criminals is a happy family life. And when two mysterious deaths interrupt Wisting's Christmas, it is the beginning of a showdown with the deadliest killer of them all.
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Title: Valkyrien
Character: Ravn
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: TV
In an illegal hospital, hidden in an Oslo underground station, a physician is desperately trying to find a cure for his wife's terminal illness.
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Title: Snowfall
Character: Tore
Released: December 1, 2016
Type: TV
Selma, a 9 year old girl who lost her parents in an accident, is now living with Ruth, a quite strict neighbour who was just supposed to temporarily look after Selma and her dog Casper.
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Burnout 2
Title: Burnout 2
Character: Doffen
Released: October 12, 2016
Type: Movie
After two years in prison for participating in an illegal street race, Roy says no to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk. But then he hears that his daughter will participate with a boyfriend.
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A Serious Game
Title: A Serious Game
Character: Markus Roslin
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
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Gentlemen
Title: Gentlemen
Character: Förläggare Franzén
Released: December 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
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Title: Blue Eyes
Character: Gunnar Elvestad
Released: November 30, 2014
Type: TV
High adrenaline Swedish political thriller from the creative talent behind Humans – An extreme right-wing party is heading towards its best election result when the chief of staff at the Justice Department disappears without a trace. Racism, immigration and nationalism are explored in this series praised by New York Times.
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Blue Eyes
Title: Blue Eyes
Character: Gunnar Elvestad
Released: November 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Politics, extremism and violence in Sweden. An extreme right-wing party is heading towards its best election result when the chief of staff at the Justice Department disappears without a trace.
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Burnout
Title: Burnout
Character: Doffen
Released: August 13, 2014
Type: Movie
For all who remember Cannonball Run. Here is a modern twist on the subject. The longest, wildest and funniest car race, ever. From Oslo to the North Cape. The only rule is getting there first!
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Detective Downs
Title: Detective Downs
Character: Olav Stjernen
Released: October 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Detective Robert has his own office, a trench coat, a Bogart hat and Downs syndrome. The only thing he is missing is a case. Then a lady comes to his rescue.
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Call Girl
Title: Call Girl
Character: Glenn
Released: November 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
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Two Lives
Title: Two Lives
Character: Bjarte
Released: October 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
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An Enemy to Die For
Title: An Enemy to Die For
Character: Captain
Released: March 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.
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Title: Lilyhammer
Character: Julius Backe
Released: January 25, 2012
Type: TV
After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer or as he calls it, Lilyhammer.
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Sons of Norway
Title: Sons of Norway
Character: Magnus
Released: September 9, 2011
Type: Movie
It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Magnus is an architect, hippie and free spirit, a glaring exception in a community where equality and conformity is the norm. He always stands up for his son, supporting him unconditionally, even when Nikolaj decides to stop giving a damn.
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Shameless
Title: Shameless
Character: Førstebetjent Ahlsen
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
It's the summer of 1951 in Oslo. Lillian and Amund Wang are blessed with their first and only child. Adrian Wang - a boy or a girl?
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Wallander 24 - The Heritage
Title: Wallander 24 - The Heritage
Character: Manfred
Released: April 21, 2010
Type: Movie
When Manfred Stjarne is stabbed to death outside the Brada cider factory his wife Claire has inherited - suspicion falls on Polish worker Jan Kowalski, with whose wife Manfred was having an affair, but Jan is found hanged - later evidence suggesting foul play. Benjamin Wilkes, an ex-psychologist who helped Manfred select redundancy candidates, is killed in the same way as Manfred, putting disgruntled ex-Brada employees in the frame, but a third slaying implicates a former patient of Wilkes, who has connections to the Stjarne family. A newly loved-up Isabelle and Pontius start to fool around whilst on surveillance, taking their eye off the ball and allowing this suspect to confront Claire.
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The Accident
Title: The Accident
Character: Espen
Released: August 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Jonas, a successful car-salesman is being suspected having driven over a child. His life is turned upside down and he realize that that we are all responsible, one way or another.
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Title: Skavlan
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 16, 2009
Type: TV
Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."
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Peer Gynt from the Streets
Title: Peer Gynt from the Streets
Character: Dialogtrener
Released: March 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A group of street people plays in a cinematographic version of the 5th act of Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. The movie contains both fiction and documentary elements.
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Title: Torpedo
Character: Hovland
Released: February 4, 2007
Type: TV
Emotionally-charged miniseries about a “Torpedo” (enforcer) who has his life turned upside down in an instant – the moment he finds his wife murdered. She was killed with her husband’s weapon, making him the prime suspect, and leaving him with the responsibility of caring for their five-year-old daughter as he embarks on a harrowing four-day quest find the real killers and clear his name Less
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Title: An immortal man
Character: Knus Ibsen
Released: December 26, 2006
Type: TV
The series follows the first years of Henrik Ibsen, the father of the modern drama. From he is 14 years old, until he moves to Christiania as a 22 year old.
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Ole Bull - Himmelstormeren
Title: Ole Bull - Himmelstormeren
Character: Storyteller
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
The violinist Ole Bull was Norway's first superstar. He played at the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, founded the first Norwegian theater and his own state in America, and is probably the only Norwegian who has sold his bath tub water on perfume bottles.
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Love Me Tomorrow
Title: Love Me Tomorrow
Character: Kjell Bjarne
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: Movie
Three years have passed since Elling moved to town together with Kjell Bjarne, his roommate from the institution at Brøynes. Elling now lives on his own in the apartment. Kjell Bjarne has moved up one floor, to Reidun and her little daughter Mojo. Elling feels like an outsider, and he isolates himself more and more. He observes humankind with astonishment, and wonders at how everyone else seems to be adjusting so well. Finally, Kjell Bjarne takes care of the situation. Elling protests, but he is still pretty happy as he is transformed into a new man, clean, fully rested and well dressed. Deep inside, he also knows what's lacking, and one evening he finally finds the woman he knows is able to fill the void in his life. He's willing to do anything to win her trust and conquer her love. But when he is invited home to his new girlfriend for dinner, a few objections appear to Elling, and the story doesn't end quite the way he had thought it would.
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An Enemy of the People
Title: An Enemy of the People
Character: Peter Stockman
Released: January 21, 2005
Type: Movie
In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled water. The plant will bring new life and hope to the village, but unexpected trouble occurs.
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Title: Wallander
Character: Manfred
Released: January 14, 2005
Type: TV
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
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Deadline Torp
Title: Deadline Torp
Character: Per Kristian Hoveng
Released: January 13, 2005
Type: Movie
On September 28th, 1994, two Swedish men robbed a bank in the small Norwegian town of Larvik. Soon, with a massive police hunt underway, the robbers ended up taking two civilians and two police officers hostage. Next morning the drama would come to a deadly halt at nearby Torp Airport, where for the first time in history, a Norwegian police chief was forced to give the order to shoot to kill.
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Title: Hos Martin
Character: Martin Amundsen
Released: January 6, 2004
Type: TV
Hos Martin is a Norwegian situation comedy that premiered on TV2 on January 6, 2004.
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Let's Play House
Title: Let's Play House
Character: Ivar
Released: October 31, 2003
Type: Movie
Married Jonny meets married Rebecka.
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The Sea
Title: The Sea
Character: Morten
Released: September 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
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Most People Live in China
Title: Most People Live in China
Character: Marius (segment "Dressmann")
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp.
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I Am Dina
Title: I Am Dina
Character: Prison Gov.
Released: March 8, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Torsdagsklubben
Released: January 31, 2002
Type: TV
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Elling
Title: Elling
Character: Kjell Bjarne
Released: March 16, 2001
Type: Movie
40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.
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Tusenårsfesten
Title: Tusenårsfesten
Character: Nils Svendsen
Released: December 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Eva's Eye
Title: Eva's Eye
Character: Jostein Magnus
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
While Eva Magnus and her daughter, Jenny, are taking a walk, they discover a dead body floating along the riverside. Eva runs to the nearest phone booth and pretends to call the police. Then she leaves the body for someone else to find. Why? Konrad Sejer, the police officer investigating the case, links it to another unsolved murder of a woman killed in her bed. A woman that used to be a childhood friend of Eva Magnus.
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The Prompter
Title: The Prompter
Character: Fred
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Siv works as a prompter for the Norwegian opera. As the rehearsals for Aida starts, she marries a demanding man, Fred, who still has a strong connection to his ex-wife. Starting at her wedding, Siv must repeatedly take a back seat, both to Freds children and their mother. But when she meets a man who shares her passion for music, she starts to question the path her life has taken.
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Rett i lomma
Title: Rett i lomma
Character: Norman Bassfjord
Released: December 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Erik Bruun (Nils Vogt) milks the social security system by making up a lot of tenants with one social security-entitled defect worse than the other, he starts this after he is fired two years earlier. His wife Linda (Kjersti Døvigen) knows nothing about this, but then one day when social security inspector Fylking (Ole Jørgen Nilsen) suddenly knocks on the door to check the conditions, a huge and increasingly complicated and intricate process starts for Bruun in the hope of avoiding to be revealed.
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Title: Rapport fra "Nr. 24"
Character: Forteller
Released: April 8, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Vestavind
Character: Ivar Torgersen
Released: March 6, 1994
Type: TV
Norwegian drama TV series.
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Title: Mot i brøstet
Character: Nils Svendsen
Released: January 22, 1993
Type: TV
Mot i Brøstet is a Norwegian situation comedy created by Tore Ryen. It originally aired on TV 2 from 22 January 1993 to 8 December 1997 and has since aired in reruns on various TV2 channels. It was the commercial Norwegian sitcom, and remains popular with fans, even fifteen years after its end. It was released on DVD in 2007. A spin-off, Karl & Co, aired on TV 2 for three seasons from 1998 to 2001, spawning a total of 63 episodes. Another spin-off, Karl III, aired on TV 2 in 2009, but was cancelled after only 12 episodes due to negative reviews.
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Smykketyven
Title: Smykketyven
Character: Legen
Released: August 30, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Aksjemordet
Character: Halvor Sander
Released: March 6, 1990
Type: TV
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Albertine
Title: Albertine
Character: Student Helgesen
Released: December 30, 1988
Type: Movie
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På stigende kurs
Title: På stigende kurs
Character: Bankraner
Released: August 20, 1987
Type: Movie
Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last.
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Over grensen
Title: Over grensen
Character: Vitne Jensen
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
"Across the Border" - Jacob and Rachel was killed on their flight from the Nazi occupation to Sweden in 1942. A year later their bodies are discovered, but after the war the case is re-opened, and the guilty ones is game.
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Title: Rød snø
Character: Hans Solberg
Released: November 9, 1985
Type: TV
Rød Snø is a Norwegian/Swedish thriller television series made in 1985, directed by Bo Hermansson and written by Tony Williamson. It stars Tomas von Brömssen, Kjersti Holmen and Sven Nordin.
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Title: The Last Place on Earth
Character: Gran
Released: February 18, 1985
Type: TV
The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott and his Norwegian rival in polar exploration, Roald Amundsen in their attempts to reach the South Pole. The series ran for seven episodes and starred a wide range of UK and Norwegian character actors as well as featuring some famous names, such as Max von Sydow, Richard Wilson, Sylvester McCoy and Pat Roach. It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant. Subsequently Huntford's book was republished under the same name. The book put forth the point of view that Amundsen's success in reaching the South Pole was abetted by much superior planning, whereas errors by Scott ultimately resulted in the death of him and his companions.