Arve Opsahl
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.
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Tusenårsfesten
Two of the greatest comedy successes in Norwegian TV's history are Mot i Brostet and Karl and Co. What you get here is protagonists from both TV shows gathered, celebrating the new millennium with a new year's party.
Olsenbandens siste stikk
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.
The Julekalender
Three Norwegian mythical creatures nisser, embark on a journey from the North Pole to their home cave in Trondelag to find the life melody that can save their leader, Gammel Nok, who lives with a nearby potato farmer.
En håndfull tid
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.
'Men Olsenbanden var ikke død!'
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
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.
Olsenbanden gir seg aldri!
The Olsen Gang realizes that cash is obsolete with the current inflation rate, and plans a coup for property and bonds.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.
Olsen-bandens flugt over plankeværket
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 og Dynamitt-Harry mot nye høyder
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
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
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 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
In Olderdalen Bør Børson has affirmed his stand as the king of the valley and the richest man with the biggest house.
Olsenbandens siste bedrifter
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.
Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter
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.
Olsen-banden møter kongen og knekten
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.
Knutsen & Ludvigsen
Knutsen and Ludvigsen has all against the law chosen to live inside a tunnel.
Bør Børson Jr.
This is the story about the great man of Olderdalen which starts as a simple shop-owner in the country and ends up as a tycoon in the capital (right after WW1.)
Olsen-banden og Dynamitt-Harry går amok
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.
Olsen-banden tar gull
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.
Norske byggeklosser
The married couple Ingrid and Olav Femte meets unforeseen troubles and bureaucracy when they build a new house. A hopeless and hilarious meet with the system.
Skulle det dukke opp flere lik er det bare å ringe.....
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...
Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry
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.
Olsen-banden
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.
Sus og dus på by'n
The criminals Slegga, Reven and Nelly goes in and out of prison, but finds each other when they are free out of prison. The film's three sequences describe the actions of the criminals and their social circle in Oslo's underworld.
Smuglere
The hard 20'ies with a world crises and alcohol was not allowed. But also a chance to earn easy big money. Ernst is out of work and coincidentally falls into smuggling. But his Klara can't cope with it, and the police are o their heels.
Mannen som ikke kunne le
A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist.
Stompa til Sjøs!
STOMPA will work his way across 'Blåmyra' to surprise his New York roots. He boards a 20,000-ton ship with his Russian friend Nøtterø who wants to get a taste of the sea life during the summer holidays.
Hurra for Andersens
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.
Operasjon sjøsprøyt
From the navy, where you meet crew and officers on a cruise to Tromsø. On board fast motor torpedo boats, with sea spray, singing, music, girls in every port.
Nydelige nelliker
The capital is becoming a nice city, but a bunch of rascals keeps on as they did. They don't want to be a part of the new society. With their casual treatment of truth and other's property most of their time is spent behind prison bars.
Blåjackor
Sailors (Swedish: Blåjackor) is a 1964 Swedish film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Dirch Passer.
Operasjon Løvsprett
The military leaders have an almost hopeless job when the salesman Goggen, the mechanic Bottolph, the shipping magnate Rieber-Larsen and others are called in for three weeks military duty. The nurses, Florence and Bitten, add to their problems.
Bussen
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 forget to charge money from his travelers.
Millionær for en aften
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?