Lars Tvinde (11 September 1886 – 25 June 1973) was a Norwegian stage and film actor.

Biography

Tvinde was born at

Voss Voss () is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages inclu ...

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...

, Norway. He was the son of Knut Haldorsen (1843–1927) and Eli Jørgensdotter Leidal (1842–1927). He attended Voss folkehøgskule and for eight years, he worked for his uncle at a store in

Vossevangen Vossevangen or Voss is the administrative centre of Voss municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Location The village lies on the northeastern shore of the lake Vangsvatnet in the central part of the municipality, about east of the city of Berg ...

. He also appeared at amateur theater in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

. He started working for

Det Norske Teatret Det Norske Teatret ()Moe, Jens. 2011. ''My America: The Culture of Giving''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, p. 133. is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabløs. It opened in 19 ...

in Oslo during 1912. He said the first lines at the theatre's opening performance,

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's ''Ervingen'', on 2 January 1913. He is regarded as one of the driving forces at Det Norske Teatret, from its first season until his retirement in 1958. During his time on stage, he created memorable characters in both comic and the tragic roles. He also had a number of roles in film. He made his film debut in 1920 as Haldor in '' Fante-Anne'' directed by

Rasmus Breistein Rasmus Breistein (November 16, 1890 – October 16, 1976) was a Norwegians, Norwegian film director.Sundholm, John et al. ''Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema''. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, p. 88. Life Breistein was born in Åsane i ...

. He played in ''Himmeluret'' (1925), ''Bra mennesker'' (1937) and '' Godvakker-Maren'' (1940). Tvinde was a board member of the Norwegian Acting Federation 1932-39. He was awarded the Hulda Garborgs stipend in 1926 and the Norwegian Theatre Critics Award (''Teaterkritikerprisen'') in 1939 and awarded the State artist grant (''Statens kunstnarløn'') in 1955. Tvinde was decorated Commander of the

Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II, known to posterity as St. Olav. Just be ...

in 1964.

Personal life

In 1923 he married Gudrun Friedricksen (1894–1982).

Filmography

References

Other sources

* Dalgard, Olav (1966
''Lars Tvinde''
(Oslo : Noregs boklag)

External links

* 1886 births 1973 deaths People from Voss People from Hordaland Norwegian male stage actors Norwegian male silent film actors 20th-century Norwegian male actors Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal {{Norway-actor-stub