Wenche Foss

Wenche Foss

Born: December 5, 1917
Died: March 28, 2011

Movies for Wenche Foss...

Blackmail for Beginners
Title: Blackmail for Beginners
Character: Grandmother
Released: September 30, 2011
Type: Movie
In desperate need of $150,000 for his father's heart transplant, Simen tries to blackmail a dysfunctional robber.
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Title: An immortal man
Character: Faster Ploug
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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Music for Weddings and Funerals
Title: Music for Weddings and Funerals
Character: Lisa
Released: August 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder.
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I Am Dina
Title: I Am Dina
Character: Mistress Karen
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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Rosmersholm
Title: Rosmersholm
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: Movie
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Ballen i øyet
Title: Ballen i øyet
Character: Gammel dame
Released: October 2, 2000
Type: Movie
While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's double sighted.
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Don't Look Back
Title: Don't Look Back
Character: Halvor's grandmother
Released: January 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The body of a local teenage girl named Annie was found by an idyllic pond in the woods. The suspect list grows indefinitely. However, as Inspector Sejer and his partner Jacob Skarre question the girl's family, and others, they realize she has a shocking secret she shared with no one.
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Gurin with the Foxtail
Title: Gurin with the Foxtail
Character: Enkefru Stengelføhn-Glad (voice)
Released: August 7, 1998
Type: Movie
A gnome named Gurin wakes up with a foxtail as punishment for his practical jokes.
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Arne Skouen - en mann for sin tid
Title: Arne Skouen - en mann for sin tid
Character: herself
Released: July 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: O.J. på nye eventyr
Character: Herself
Released: September 22, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Vestavind
Character: Marie Nedrebø
Released: March 6, 1994
Type: TV
Norwegian drama TV series.
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Rygg i rand, to i spann
Title: Rygg i rand, to i spann
Character: Mrs Flo
Released: January 9, 1993
Type: Movie
To 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?
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Act Naturally
Title: Act Naturally
Character: Tora
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A television-team makes a surprise visit to an olympic athlete's grandmother. They want to capture her reaction just as her grandson crosses the finish line. Unfortunately, the woman is totally uninterested in sports, and doesn't even have a TV. The interview is a bust, but the team discovers something else that may be the scoop they have been looking for.
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The Beginning of a Story
Title: The Beginning of a Story
Character: Tante Ally
Released: September 8, 1988
Type: Movie
A story about one summer from the life of 7 years old Marin.
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På stigende kurs
Title: På stigende kurs
Character: Svigermor
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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Farewell Illusions
Title: Farewell Illusions
Character: Mor til Atle
Released: March 12, 1985
Type: Movie
A harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975.
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Open Future
Title: Open Future
Character: Hybelvertinne
Released: December 26, 1983
Type: Movie
A 16-year-old boy grows up in the '60s, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
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Victoria L.
Title: Victoria L.
Character: Victoria Lund
Released: March 19, 1982
Type: Movie
The middle aged widowed Victoria has had to quit job due to work injuries. Helping people is her new goal in life. One days she meets young Carl, suffering from a difficult past, giving her an unforgettable experience.
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Julia Julia
Title: Julia Julia
Character: Fru Åstrøm
Released: August 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Julia washes train coupes for a living. When she meets the married Karl-Henrik, the secretary of the Minister of Justice, she falls in love and gets him involved in criminal activities
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Life and Death
Title: Life and Death
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
When a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.
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John Gabriel Borkman
Title: John Gabriel Borkman
Released: January 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)
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The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Title: The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Character: Enkefru Stengelføhn-Glad (voice)
Released: August 28, 1975
Type: Movie
100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion.
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Scenes from a Marriage
Title: Scenes from a Marriage
Character: Modern
Released: September 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
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Bør Børson Jr.
Title: Bør Børson Jr.
Character: Hotellverten
Released: February 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.
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Bør Børson Jr.
Title: Bør Børson Jr.
Character: Baronessen
Released: February 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.
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Title: Scenes from a Marriage
Character: Modern
Released: April 11, 1973
Type: TV
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
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Aske
Title: Aske
Released: March 26, 1973
Type: Movie
A middle-aged couple, Daniel and Cecilie, lives in a large house. They have a son, but he has left them, and they do not even know if he is alive. While Cecilie is alone in the house, three young people and one older person come in. They are friends with the son. Conflicts arise between Cecilie - and later Daniel - and the invaders.
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Song of Norway
Title: Song of Norway
Character: Mrs. Hagerup
Released: November 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.
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Operasjon V for vanvidd
Title: Operasjon V for vanvidd
Character: Minister of Justice
Released: March 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Five young men are planning a crime of forcing a plane down to rob the passengers.
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Gjør det lettere
Title: Gjør det lettere
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Wenche Foss hosts a series of commercials and infomercials. The twentieth in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".
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Episode
Title: Episode
Character: The Mother
Released: October 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Tensions arise when a mother falls for her son's friend.
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The Wild Duck
Title: The Wild Duck
Character: Gina Ekdal
Released: April 9, 1963
Type: Movie
The play opens in the study at Hakon Werle's house during a dinner party for the return of Werle's son, Gregers, from the Hoidal mines. Gregers has not come home for fifteen years. Old Ekdal appears before two servants, begging to be let into the office. Ekdal was an army officer and partner to Werle until a forestry scandal sent him to prison over some scandal. He now works as one of Werle's copyists.
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About Tilla
Title: About Tilla
Character: Sjefspsykologen
Released: January 2, 1963
Type: Movie
One autumn day, Ivar goes to the Botanical Garden in Oslo to visit Maria who is the mother of a little girl named Tilla. Ivar is a child psychologist and had Tilla observed a few months earlier. Treatment for her was agreed upon, but Maria has not returned with Tilla. Now Ivar finds her sleeping under a tree in the garden, and he meets Maria bent over a microscope in the laboratory. Maria has become even more nervous and unbalanced than the last time he met her, because nothing has been "corrected" as quickly as she had hoped -- Tilla has not spoken now for a year and a half. Maria herself is on her way to being as closed off as her own little girl. Ivar persuades Maria to come to the pediatric psychiatric clinic with Tilla so they can begin her treatment. There she meets Mimi Backer. But neither does Mimi get Maria to open up about her experiences with Tilla. In the clinic's observation room, however, the first little flicker of light falls on the mystery...
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Lykke og krone
Title: Lykke og krone
Character: Narrator
Released: April 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Depicts the royal houses of Europe (Norwegian, British, Belgian and Dutch) as well as Iran and the Principality of Monaco.
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Tonny
Title: Tonny
Character: Tonnys mor
Released: January 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release. We get to see his experiences in prison and his relationship with his mother, friends and girlfriend Kari.
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Støv på hjernen
Title: Støv på hjernen
Character: Edna Grindheim
Released: August 17, 1959
Type: Movie
The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands and kids.
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The Master and His Servants
Title: The Master and His Servants
Character: Fru Helmer
Released: March 2, 1959
Type: Movie
The Master and His Servants (Norwegian: Herren og hans tjenere) is a 1959 Norwegian drama film directed by Arne Skouen. The film is based on a 1955 play by Axel Kielland, who also plays a minor character in the film. The play and the film is based on a true story from Sweden. The Master and his Servants was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Portrettet
Title: Portrettet
Character: Sosse Laurantzon
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
The film takes place in the idyllic town of Solsund. Per Haug, a temporary worker, bachelor, amateur painter and leader of the political opposition in the city council, lives there. One day he rushes home from a turbulent city council meeting and angrily paints a portrait of Mayor Abrahamsen.
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The bridal bouquet
Title: The bridal bouquet
Character: En bardame
Released: December 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Siv Blom is a young impulsive girl with a special ability to come up in extraordinary situations. She also sleepwalks and one day strolling she sleepwalks unsuspecting into the bedroom to the sublime painter 'Picasso'. The art painter comes to admire her naivete, but doesn't have enough time for her. After that Siv stumbles across a new man, a junior manager in the firm Høyland & Høyland. Høyland jr. falls for Miss Blom, but definitely not his mother. Therefore Siv is sent on business to Stockholm and thus she meets man no. 3, the womanizer Victor Wahlin. Who to marry now that Siv has acquired three very eager suitors whom all wants Siv's consent. The stage is set for many intrigues. Who wins?
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The Disappearance of a Young Wife
Title: The Disappearance of a Young Wife
Character: Tore Haug, kriminalkonstabel
Released: August 26, 1953
Type: Movie
The young wife of an upper-class academic disappears while her husband is on holiday. In his search for her, the husband learns that there was much he did not know both about her past and about their relationship.
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Det kunne vært deg
Title: Det kunne vært deg
Character: Ingrid
Released: November 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Maisen is newly married to the architect Harald, but on the way home he loses the key to their flat. They have to ask their neighbor for help, a man with a new girl every night. But when their marriage falters, the neighbor steps up.
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Krane's Confectionery
Title: Krane's Confectionery
Character: Elise Gjør
Released: November 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life
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Trollfossen
Title: Trollfossen
Character: Sylvia Strøm
Released: March 29, 1948
Type: Movie
General director Strøm will create a large Norwegian industrial company to tame waterfalls and put them in pipes. But also his wife Sylvia, the gifted pianist, must be tamed. However, Strøm discovers that human material is considerably more difficult to process than the forces of nature.
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Et spøkelse forelsker seg
Title: Et spøkelse forelsker seg
Character: Irene «Barbara Burns»
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Norwegian Drama
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Rikard Nordraak
Title: Rikard Nordraak
Character: Louise Lund
Released: December 26, 1945
Type: Movie
A film biography of Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.
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En herre med bart
Title: En herre med bart
Character: Cecilie, hans kone
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The title of this film "En herre med bart" translates as "A Gentleman with a mustache." It is the the story of a married couple, a hardworking lawyer and his wife. The wife is fed up with the marriage and wants a divorce, something the husband won't let her have.
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Jeg drepte!
Title: Jeg drepte!
Character: Liv Bøhmer
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A friend of the surgeon Bøhmer has to have his appendix removed, but during the anesthesia he reveals he loves the doctor's wife, which makes Bøhmer want to kill him. Three days later the patient dies. Did Bøhmer kill him?
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The Dangerous Game
Title: The Dangerous Game
Character: Christine Sandemann, hans kone
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Known architect Jean Blomis married with two kids, living in a modern condo, though being very outgoing, his wife isn't. After learning about scientist Holm's new hormone, he hopes to feed his wife with it to get her pepped up.
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Tørres Snørtevold
Title: Tørres Snørtevold
Character: Frøken Thorsen
Released: December 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The young fisherman Tørres wants to become rich, so he can get revenge over Krøger, who has taken his family home. He gets a job in Mrs. Knudsen's shop to establish himself, and after a short time he has the upper hand on Krøger...