Arve Otter Juritzen (born 10 November 1960) is a Norwegian book publisher. In his early career he was a journalist, television presenter and television producer. He founded the publishing house Juritzen Forlag in 2006, which among others is the Norwegian publisher of

Cecilia Samartin Cecilia Samartin (born 1961 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American writer and psychologist. She studied psychology at UCLA and marriage and family therapy at Santa Clara University. For several years she has been working with people who have immi ...

. He has also written six books himself and even appeared in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back as a

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soldier in the Battle of

Hoth Hoth is an ice planet in the ''Star Wars'' fictional universe. It first appeared in the 1980 film ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and has also been a setting in ''Star Wars'' books and video games. Description Hoth is the sixth planet of a remote ...

scenes, as the majority of extras during that scene were Norwegians from

Finse Finse is a locality in the mountainous north-east of Ulvik municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Located on lake Finsevatnet, it is centered around Finse station, a railway station on the Bergen Line, which is the highest station of the Norw ...

, Norway, where filming of the Hoth landscape and battle took place. He also presented the first two series of Big Brother between 2001 and 2002 and the first series of ''Vil du bli millionær'', the Norwegian version of ''

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'', in 2000.

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* 1960 births Living people People from Drammen Norwegian book publishers (people) Norwegian television presenters Norwegian television talk show hosts TV 2 (Norway) people {{norway-writer-stub