Arve Opsahl

Arve Opsahl

Birth : 1921-05-14, Oslo, Norway

Death : 2007-04-29

History

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.

Profile

Arve Opsahl

Movies

Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary
Archive footage
A 30th anniversary special celebrating the Norwegian sitcom Mot i brøstet. Actors Nils Vogt, Sven Nordin and Hilde Lyrån share their memories.
Ja vi elsker ARVE!
Tusenårsfesten
Henry Pettersen
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.
Olsenbandens siste stikk
Egon Olsen
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.
Out of Order!
Rasmus Lange
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.
Latterbrøl med Arve Opsahl
A Handful of Time
Hannibal
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.
Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by
Kjøpmann Berg
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.
På stigende kurs
Politimester
Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last.
Men Olsenbanden var ikke død!
Egon Olsen
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.
Olsenbandens aller siste kupp
Egon Olsen
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.
The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence
Norwegian at Airport (uncredited)
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.
Olsenbanden gir seg aldri!
Egon Olsen
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.
Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry mot nye høyder
Egon Olsen
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.
Olsenbanden og Data-Harry sprenger verdensbanken
Egon Olsen
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.
Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry på sporet
Egon Olsen
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.
Olsenbanden for full musikk
Egon Olsen
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.
Bør Børson II
Milljonær Ohlzén
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.
Olsenbandens siste bedrifter
Egon Olsen
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.
Glade vrinsk
The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Knut (uncredited)
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.
Olsenbanden møter Kongen og Knekten
Egon Olsen
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.
Bør Børson Jr.
Ohlzén
Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.
Knutsen & Ludvigsen
Kaptein Knutsen
Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry går amok
Egon Olsen
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.
Dear Little Norway
Various
A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.
Olsenbanden tar gull
Egon Olsen
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.
Norwegian Building Blocks
Kleppe
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.
Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry
Egon Olsen
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.
Skulle det dukke opp flere lik, er det bare å ringe...
Overbetjent Henry Bakker
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...
Psychedelica Blues
Hans Korsmo
Four days in Lissy's life where she gets to live out her opposition and enters a completely unknown world.
The Olsen Gang
Egon Olsen
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.
Smugglers
Karlsen
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.
Sus og dus på by'n
Slegga
Mannen som ikke kunne le
Himself
A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist.
Stompa til sjøs
Båsen
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.
Congratulations Andersens!
Carl Alfred Andersen
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.
Hjelp - Vi får leilighet!
Madsen
A classic Norwegian comedy about achieving ones own first flat...
Nydelige nelliker
Slegga
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...
Sailors
Månsson
Sailors (Swedish: Blå­jac­kor) is a 1964 Swedish film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Dirch Passer.
Operasjon Sjøsprøyt
Bottolph Johansen, kokk
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!
Operasjon Løvsprett
Bottolph Johansen, bilrepratør
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.
The Bus
Måsabjønn
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.
Oss atomforskere i mellom
Mo-Pedersen
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.
Sønner av Norge
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.
Millionær for en aften
Knut Møller
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?
It Happened One Night
Policeman
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.
Hjem går vi ikke
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.
Svendsen går videre