Biography
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 resultin...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary
2023
as Himself
A 30th anniversary special celebrating the Norwegian sitcom Mot i brøstet. Actors Nils Vogt, Sven Nordin and Hilde Lyrån share their memories.

Gold Run
2022
as Odd Henry
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...

Asphalt Burning
2020
as Doffen
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...

Burning 2
2016
as Doffen
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 h...

A Serious Game
2016
as Markus Roslin
In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

Gentlemen
2014
as Förläggare Franzén
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and ch...

Burning
2014
as Doffen
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 C...

Detective Downs
2013
as Olav Stjernen
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 ...

Call Girl
2012
as Glenn
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and priva...

Two Lives
2012
as Bjarte
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...

An Enemy to Die For
2012
as Captain
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 nat...

Sons of Norway
2011
as Magnus
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 ...

Shameless
2010
as Førstebetjent Ahlsen
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?

Wallander: The Heritage
2010
as Manfred
When Manfred Stjarne is stabbed to death outside the Brada cider factory his wife Claire has inherited - suspicion falls on Polish worker Jan Kowalski...

The Accident
2009
as Espen
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 res...

Peer Gynt from the Streets
2008
as Dialogtrener
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 docum...
Ole Bull - Himmelstormeren
2006
as Storyteller
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 ow...

Love Me Tomorrow
2005
as Kjell Bjarne
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 o...

An Enemy of the People
2005
as Peter Stockman
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 w...

Deadline Torp
2005
as Per Kristian Hoveng
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 e...

Let's Play House
2003
as Ivar
Married Jonny meets married Rebecka.

The Sea
2002
as Morten
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. Bu...

Most People Live in China
2002
as Marius (segment "Dressmann")
A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dippi...

I Am Dina
2002
as Prison Gov.
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...

Elling
2001
as Kjell Bjarne
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. The...

Tusenårsfesten
1999
as Nils Svendsen
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 la...

Eva's Eye
1999
as Jostein Magnus
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 boo...

The Prompter
1999
as Fred
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 connecti...

Rett i lomma
1998
as Norman Bassfjord
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, h...

Smykketyven
1990
as Legen
Jan Strøm has always been popular with women and is used to getting what he wants. But one day he is drawn into dramatic events beyond his control, an...

Albertine
1988
as Student Helgesen
Albertine's destiny during the 1880s Christiania. A dramatization of Christian Krogh's book Albertine.

På stigende kurs
1987
as Bankraner
Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last.

The Feldmann Case
1987
as Vitne Jensen
"The Feldmann Case" - Jacob and Rachel was killed on their flight from the Nazi occupation to Sweden in 1942. A year later their bodies are discovered...
På ville veier
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The play revolves around a government official who checks into a hotel to meet his mistress, but things quickly spiral into chaos as unexpected visito...