Arve Opsahl

Arve Opsahl

Born: May 14, 1921
Died: April 29, 2007
in Oslo, Norway
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.

Movies for Arve Opsahl...

Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary
Title: Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary
Character: Archive footage
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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Ja vi elsker ARVE!
Title: Ja vi elsker ARVE!
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Tusenårsfesten
Title: Tusenårsfesten
Character: Henry Pettersen
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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Fengslet av Olsenbanden
Title: Fengslet av Olsenbanden
Released: February 20, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
Title: The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Julekalender
Character: Good Old Gammel Nok
Released: December 1, 1994
Type: TV
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 from the Danish trio of De Nattergale. The characters spoke Norwenglish, a pidgin of English and Norwegian. The series consisted of 24 episodes, and its production crew came from Trondheim, Norway.
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Title: Mot i brøstet
Character: Henry Rasmus Pettersen
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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Out of Order!
Title: Out of Order!
Character: Rasmus Lange
Released: November 10, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Latterbrøl med Arve Opsahl
Title: Latterbrøl med Arve Opsahl
Released: May 11, 1992
Type: Movie
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A Handful of Time
Title: A Handful of Time
Character: Hannibal
Released: October 12, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by
Title: Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by
Character: Kjøpmann Berg
Released: August 25, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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På stigende kurs
Title: På stigende kurs
Character: Politimester
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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But The Olsen Gang Was Not Dead!
Title: But The Olsen Gang Was Not Dead!
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: September 6, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang's Very Last Coup
Title: The Olsen Gang's Very Last Coup
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: September 17, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence
Title: The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence
Character: Norwegian at Airport (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang Never Gives Up!
Title: The Olsen Gang Never Gives Up!
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Towards New Heights
Title: The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Towards New Heights
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: September 7, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang and Data-Harry Blows Up The World Bank
Title: The Olsen Gang and Data-Harry Blows Up The World Bank
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: September 18, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry On The Trail
Title: The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry On The Trail
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: October 11, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang For Full Music
Title: The Olsen Gang For Full Music
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: December 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Bør Børson II
Title: Bør Børson II
Character: Milljonær Ohlzén
Released: October 8, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Title: The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: August 7, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Glade vrinsk
Title: Glade vrinsk
Released: February 10, 1975
Type: Movie
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Knutsen & Ludvigsen
Title: Knutsen & Ludvigsen
Character: Kaptein Knutsen
Released: December 19, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Title: The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Character: Knut (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang meets The King and the Jackal
Title: The Olsen Gang meets The King and the Jackal
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: August 15, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Bør Børson Jr.
Title: Bør Børson Jr.
Character: Ohlzén
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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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild
Title: The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: November 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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.
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Dear Little Norway
Title: Dear Little Norway
Character: Various
Released: January 17, 1973
Type: Movie
A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.
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The Olsen Gang Takes the Gold
Title: The Olsen Gang Takes the Gold
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: August 9, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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Norwegian Building Blocks
Title: Norwegian Building Blocks
Character: Kleppe
Released: February 14, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry
Title: The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: August 10, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe...
Title: Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe...
Character: Overbetjent Henry Bakker
Released: March 2, 1970
Type: Movie
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...
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Psychedelica Blues
Title: Psychedelica Blues
Character: Hans Korsmo
Released: October 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Four days in Lissy's life where she gets to live out her opposition and enters a completely unknown world.
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The Olsen Gang
Title: The Olsen Gang
Character: Egon Olsen
Released: August 11, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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Smugglers
Title: Smugglers
Character: Karlsen
Released: September 3, 1968
Type: Movie
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 smuggling trips by car - with big profits - but it's not enough. So Ernst invests in boats, and that's when the really messy smuggling starts. He operates in the entire Oslo Fjord, all the way down to Rotterdam, pursued by police and customs, with his infamous torpedo boats. We follow Ernst all the way to the so-called Bygdøyslaget, where smugglers and police brutaly clash together.
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Sus og dus på by'n
Title: Sus og dus på by'n
Character: Slegga
Released: August 11, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Man Who Could Not Laugh
Title: The Man Who Could Not Laugh
Character: Himself
Released: February 3, 1968
Type: Movie
A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist.
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Stompa til sjøs
Title: Stompa til sjøs
Character: Båsen
Released: November 6, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Kontorsjef Tangen
Character: Rørleggeren
Released: November 27, 1966
Type: TV
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Congratulations Andersens!
Title: Congratulations Andersens!
Character: Carl Alfred Andersen
Released: September 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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Hjelp - Vi får leilighet!
Title: Hjelp - Vi får leilighet!
Character: Madsen
Released: March 4, 1965
Type: Movie
A classic Norwegian comedy about achieving ones own first flat...
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Nydelige nelliker
Title: Nydelige nelliker
Character: Slegga
Released: December 12, 1964
Type: Movie
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...
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Sailors
Title: Sailors
Character: Månsson
Released: October 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Sailors (Swedish: Blå­jac­kor) is a 1964 Swedish film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Dirch Passer.
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Operasjon Sjøsprøyt
Title: Operasjon Sjøsprøyt
Character: Bottolph Johansen, kokk
Released: February 10, 1964
Type: Movie
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!
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Tips om trivsel
Title: Tips om trivsel
Character: The door-to-door salesman
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A door-to-door salesman tries to sell the "Super Madsen" multi-function housekeeping appliance to a series of housewives at a block of flats. The eleventh in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".
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Operasjon Løvsprett
Title: Operasjon Løvsprett
Character: Bottolph Johansen, bilrepratør
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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 to get through their rigourous training, with great confusion and comical situations.
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The Bus
Title: The Bus
Character: Måsabjønn
Released: October 16, 1961
Type: Movie
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.
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Oss atomforskere i mellom
Title: Oss atomforskere i mellom
Character: Mo-Pedersen
Released: August 17, 1961
Type: Movie
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.
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Sønner av Norge
Title: Sønner av Norge
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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.
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Millionær for en aften
Title: Millionær for en aften
Character: Knut Møller
Released: August 18, 1960
Type: Movie
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?
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Policeman
Released: January 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Based on a true story this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young woman doctor who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape for the border to neutral Sweden. Not knowing who to trust and chased by the germans, the flight quickly turns into a tense fight for their life.
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Hjem går vi ikke
Title: Hjem går vi ikke
Released: February 21, 1955
Type: Movie
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.
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Svendsen går videre
Title: Svendsen går videre
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A man who is trying to shop for some tobacco meets difficulties in the bureaucracy, when it comes to taxes and tolls, and he seems to meet himself in the doorway.