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Louis_Velle

Louis Velle (29 May 1926 – 2 February 2023) was a French actor. He appeared in numerous films including Stopover in Orly, The Impossible Mr. Pipelet, and Kings for a Day.

Svein_Sturla_Hungnes

Svein Sturla Hungnes (born 21 March 1946) is a Norwegian actor, theatre director, and instructor.
Hungnes studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre from 1965 to 1970, and had several small roles at Nationaltheatret during that time. After he had finished with his exams in winter 1970, he made his real debut, when he played tough young boy Joey in the Homecoming by Harold Pinter. He was noticed, and had larger roles by 1972, when he played Osvald in Ibsen's Ghosts and Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Hungnes was one of the leading actors at Nationaltheatret in the 1970s and 80s, when he also led many instructional exercises. He was acting coach for, among others, Phaedra, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll's House and The Threepenny Opera (which he directed himself). He directed Hamlet at the Trøndelag Teater, Hedda Gabler at Riksteatret and the Nordahl Grieg biography Nordahl i våre hjerter at Den Nationale Scene. At Oslo Nye Teater he produced many musical successes, including Cabaret, Chicago and My Fair Lady, as well as the Hedda Award winner Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Svein Sturla Hungnes has acted in many Norwegian films since the 1960s, of which Kimen, Mors hus, The Telegraphist and Detector are among the best known.
From 1995 to 2007 Hungnes had the title role in the annual performance of Peer Gynt at the Peer Gynt-stemnet in Gudbrandsdalen. In autumn 2007 he was part of the jury of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation television programme Drømmerollen.
In 2002 Hungnes was head of Oslo Nye Teater. For his contributions to Norwegian theater, in 2004 he was named a Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
In 2009 Hungnes received the Oslo City Culture Award.

Jean_Carmen

Jean Carmen (born Jean Carmean; April 7, 1913 – August 26, 1993) was an American film, stage, and radio actress. She sometimes went by the stage name Julia Thayer. In addition to her appearances in various films throughout the 1930s, Carmen starred on Broadway in the original production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, appearing as a replacement for the role of June Stanley. In her later career, Carmen wrote, directed, and produced the film The Pawn in 1966.

Helen_Burgess

Helen Margarite Burgess (April 26, 1916 – April 7, 1937) was an American film and stage actress. Discovered by Cecil B. DeMille, she began her acting career in 1936 at age nineteen, playing Louisa Cody in DeMille's Western biopic The Plainsman. She would appear in four films as a contract player for Paramount Pictures before dying at age twenty from pneumonia.

Øivind_Blunck

Øivind Blunck (28 December 1950) is a Norwegian comedian and actor.He is best known for his numerous performances with the Norwegian Theatre, and for playing the eccentric, moped-driving ladies' man "Fridtjof", living in Enebakk. Another memorable character is Reidar, a teen growing up in the late 1980s heavily fascinated by British pop culture such as Sky Channel, Pat Sharp and Samantha Fox. Blunck also originated the part of Thénardier in the Norwegian version of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's musical Les Misérables in 1988 in Oslo. His performance of the character's only solo in the musical - "Dog Eats Dog" is featured in the Stage by Stage documentary accompanying the DVD versions of the musical. He has also reappeared several times in Olsenbanden as "Holm", the aide of superintendent "Hermansen", played by Sverre Wilberg.
Blunck was married to actress Guri Schanke. They lived in Oslo.