Originating from Oslo, Norway, he entered the performing arts with a stage debut at the Nationaltheatret in 1968 after an earlier film appearance in Liv (1967). His early television work included presenting the children’s programme Lekestue for NRK between 1975 and 1981, and he later voiced the character Trigger in the Norwegian dub of the 1973 animated film Robin Hood. In the 1990s he became wide…
