
Acting
Þórhallur Sigurðsson
Born
1947-01-20 (79)
Place of birth
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Known for
Acting
Credits
43 titles
Laddi (born Þórhallur Sigurðsson, 20 January 1947, in Hafnarfjörður) is an Icelandic comedian, actor, voice actor and entertainer known for comedy music and comedy acting. Laddi has dubbed many characters into Icelandic, in films and TV shows like The Smurfs and feature films like Aladdin. He started off in a comedy duo with his brother Haraldur Sigurðsson, they were known as "Halli og Laddi" - Halli and Laddi. He was in the music video "Triumph of a Heart" with Björk.
Known for
7.2A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
NRIt's time to say goodbye for Benedikt, who seems to be going in peace, until he decides to live no matter what.
My Will
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Stjörnubíó
2026
6.0Áramótaskaup: 2014 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.
Áramótaskaup: 2014
2014
5.4An over confident teen with a magical weapon and a handful of imperfect gods join forces against an evil queen and her army of giants
Legends of Valhalla: Thor
2011
NRJól á leið til jarðar is an Icelandic television series that first aired on Icelandic public television channel Sjónvarpið in December 1994. The series is a part of Jóladagatal Sjónvarpsins, an ongoing series of televised advent calendars. It was created by Sigurður Örn Brynjólfsson and Friðrik Erlingsson, and was the first stop-motion advent calendar on Icelandic television. The show was produced at Nukufilm studios in Tallinn, Estonia. The show was voiced by actors and comedians Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Laddi and Örn Árnason. Jól á leið til jarðar was rerun on Sjónvarpið in December 1999 and 2007. A physical advent calendar containing leads to each episode's plot was published in conjunction with the initial airing of the series.
Jól á leið til jarðar
1994
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
NRMidwinter's Eve has arrived on Tulipop Island. But when the Munchkin's gifts go wrong, four friends journey to Cloud Castle to uncover the mystery.
Tulipop: A Midwinter Tale
2025
6.0Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.
Áramótaskaup 2021
2021
5.0Senior citizens Hófí and Pétur feel discarded by a system that has no use for them. They're tired of living in a poorly retirement home and plan to rob a bank to finally buy a place for themselves. Standing in their way are both hardened criminals and inept cops, but these are the most sly seniors around and they're going to show everyone that you can still teach and old dog new tricks...
Grandma Hófí
2020
2010s · 11 titles
7.2A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
6.0Áramótaskaup: 2014 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.
Áramótaskaup: 2014
2014
5.4An over confident teen with a magical weapon and a handful of imperfect gods join forces against an evil queen and her army of giants
Legends of Valhalla: Thor
2011
9.0Áramótaskaup: 2013 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.
Áramótaskaup: 2013
2013
9.0Áramótaskaup: 2015 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the year.
Áramótaskaup: 2015
2015
6.8When Sveppi gets a old wardrobe made by his great grandfather, magical things start happening, Sveppi, Villi and Gói go deep into the wardrobes history while a dangerous criminal is after them.
The Magic Wardrobe
2011
NRA one-man stage play with Laddi, Iceland's most cherished comedian.
Laddi lengir lífið
2014
6.0The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.
Stormland
2011
4.0The comedy Our Own Oslo is an everyday love story. We follow the strained courtship of the wildly differing Harald, forty year old engineer and Vilborg, an unemployed single mother. They are both tangled up in their own pasts and their attempts at love end in disaster.
Our Own Oslo
2011
2.5Ofeigur, the passed away father of Anna Sol walks again and starts to involve her life and her boyfriend, Ingi Brjann. The young couples are going to sell the house of the dead but Ofeigur is not very happy with that and tries to convince them not to do it. The intervention of the ghost is so irritating that Ingi Brjann tries to get him away by using methods from an old magic book.
Spooks and Spirits
2013
4.0The film deals with four men who rob a bank to pay tens of millions of debts one of them to Iceland's most dangerous man, Gulla's car dealership. To help Arnari out of the pinch, his three friends decide to help him rob robbery, gripped and armed. What could possibly go wrong?
Fullir vasar
2018
2000s · 8 titles
5.5Laddi leikur Jóhannes, myndlistarkennara sem upplifir dag sem ætlar engan endi að taka. Þessi ólukkudagur hefst á því að Jóhannes, af sannri riddaramennsku, stoppar fyrir ungri stúlku (Unnur Birna) í rigningu á Reykjanesbrautinni. Á vegi Jóhannesar verða ýmsir skrautlegir karakterar, bandbrjálaður öfundsjúkur kærasti, metnaðarfullur skólastjóri, óalandi unglingur og kostulegt lögregluþjónatvíeyki.
Jóhannes
2009
7.2In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed
Ikingut
2000
9.0Music videos for the album Medúlla. The medúlla videos. A documentary about the making of the "Triumph of a Heart" music video is also included as a bonus feature. Partially a mockumentary, the feature focuses on the auditions for the bar patrons who had to be able to make the noises and sound effects required for the live performance in the music video. The sound effects and noises used in the video were edited for a full remix released on the "Triumph of a Heart" CD single, titled the "Audition Mix". It is currently Björk's only DVD which features subtitles.
The Medúlla Videos
2005
5.6Ashamed for being a debt-collecting thug, David believes that he is an ugly duckling waiting to become a swan. Through an unlikely mentor he finds out that life has indeed something very special in store for him.
The Higher Force
2008
5.5little grub ugly - lands in a variety of adventures in her garden. A leisurely bell bumps into her, she meets a friendly worm, bullied in a bully of bees and an old grumpy spider tries to pluck her. As this is not enough, she is caught by a thief who is going to give her her breakfast for breakfast.
The Lost Little Caterpillar
2002
5.3Stella and Salomon run a business together, framkoma.is. Salomon is hired by Anton Skúlason, pilot, to beautify and transform a village, that he owns. Stella stays in the town and starts teaching politicians how to act for the coming elections. By accident Stella gets involved with the Centrum party, the main rival of the Central party, and before she knows it she's head over heals in politics.
Stella Runs for Office
2002
Halli and Laddi have long been known in Iceland. They began their career on Icelandic television in 1972 and have been unstoppable ever since. This entertainment program was recorded at Loftkastalinn on the brothers' 30th anniversary of comedy in 2003.
Halli & Laddi - Hætt'að telja
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Laddi 6-tugur
2008
1990s · 4 titles
6.1This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.
Movie Days
1994
7.5Three tales of children each in a different nothern country, Greenland, the Pharoe Islands and Iceland.
Northern Tales
1992
A middle aged worker does all he can to provide his wife and daughter with good living conditions. They are ungrateful and do not return his affections. When he has an accident at work and goes home in the afternoon, he finds the time to think about how to solve the communication problems in his family. This takes however an unforeseen route.
The Happy End
1998
8.0Alexander, a twenty-year-old student, his girlfriend and a schoolmate discover the ins and outs of film-making while shooting a documentary about his family. A gallery of humorous, off-beat characters is revealed, who's seemingly ordinary lives conceal bitter divorces, passionate second marriages, vengeance, luck and misfortune, crime and punishment.
Privacy
1995
1980s · 7 titles
7.5Sveinn, a musician with writer's block decides to apply for a teaching position in a boarding school where he intends to work on his music, but things don't go according to plan.
Who is...
1983
6.8Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and think about himself, his life and his family. If his life is going to end sooner than he expected, he wants to know how much it's been worth to him. Has life been worth living? Is it worth fighting for; is it worth a struggle against death? He takes a look at his family, a group of ordinary people, who are the colourful heroes of everyday life, struggling along in a world far removed from the world of high finance, power politics and international intrigues, but yet to them their lives are lives of high adventure. Those adventures, from the sublime to the ridiculous, form the storyline of the film, told against the background of Magnús' dilemma.
Magnús
1989
6.7Our hero is Umbi (an acronym for emissary of the bishop), sent by him to undertake an important investigation at Snæfell-glacier. In particular he is to look into the conduct and behavior of Jón Prímus, the old pastor at Snæfell. Fantastic rumors are rife: amongst other things it is said that a corpse is lodged in the glacier! Armed with his tape recorder and notebook, Umbi embarks upon his mission. He tries to question the weird locals, a weird lot, but gets evasive answers. Slowly he is dragged into a quagmire of strange happenings and his efforts to understand only make him confused. If at the beginning he is a chipper, a mere device, by the end of the story he is inextricably involved, a committed participant in the bizarre events.
Under the Glacier
1989
6.4Löggulíf is the third movie in the "-life" trilogy of knockabout comedies about the cheeky lads Thor and Danni. The others are New Life and Pastoral Life.
A Policeman's Life
1985
6.5The Icelandic Shock-Station is a thoroughbred Icelandic comedy, where the Icelander's daily life and habits are elevated to the level of farcical confusion and where all the laws of common sense are reversed in travesty of themselves, while at the same time the opportunity is taken to satirize some of the features the scriptwriter feels are blemish on the otherwise smooth facade of the nation's character.
The Icelandic Shock Station
1986
10.0On a sunny summer day a Range Rover stumbles across the lava and moss down to lake Þingvallavatn. A husband and wife step out of the vehicle along with their children, fishing partner and his daughter. While the men fish and the wife enjoys the sun the children notice a man that seems to have something to hide.
The Fishing Trip
1980
7.0The actress is to produce a play with the local amateur group and old romantic flames are rekindled. At the same time an American army unit is making experiments with a new and powerful energy source in the vicinity, promising the community a prosperous future.
Cool Jazz and Coconuts
1985
1970s · 2 titles
NRA Teleplay about the role of women in society.
Hvað er í blýhólknum
1971
NRThe television adaptation of the 1954 play Silfurtúnglið by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson updates the interwar story of Lóa, a housewife with a beautiful singing voice who delights in serenading her newborn son. Discovered by the dubious Feilan, manager of the nightclub “Silver Moon,” she’s cast as his emblem of purity for the club’s jaded clientele, only to find her talent erased and her performances reduced to humiliation. In the same production, Gunnlaugsson also modernizes Lilja’s 1933 short story “Fótatak manna,” relocating its 1920s setting to the present: medical students exhume the body of a poor, friendless man in the name of science, callously stuffing his coffin with rocks.
The Silvermoon
1978
Undated · 2 titles
NRThe Smurfs (formerly also known as the Scribbles) are blue fictional creatures that live inside mushrooms in a forest somewhere in Europe. They are just over 40 cm tall. They were originally drawn by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo, but Hanna-Barbera Productions later made a popular TV show about them that Laddi voiced in Icelandic. The Adventures of the Smurfs first appeared as sequels in the cartoon magazine Sval but were immediately published in book form.
Smurfs 9
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NRThe Smurfs (formerly also known as the Scribbles) are blue fictional creatures that live inside mushrooms in a forest somewhere in Europe. They are just over 40 cm tall. They were originally drawn by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo, but Hanna-Barbera Productions later made a popular TV show about them that Laddi voiced in Icelandic. The Adventures of the Smurfs first appeared as sequels in the cartoon magazine Sval but were immediately published in book form.
Smurfs 9
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Series credits
NRIt's time to say goodbye for Benedikt, who seems to be going in peace, until he decides to live no matter what.
My Will
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Stjörnubíó
2026
NRJól á leið til jarðar is an Icelandic television series that first aired on Icelandic public television channel Sjónvarpið in December 1994. The series is a part of Jóladagatal Sjónvarpsins, an ongoing series of televised advent calendars. It was created by Sigurður Örn Brynjólfsson and Friðrik Erlingsson, and was the first stop-motion advent calendar on Icelandic television. The show was produced at Nukufilm studios in Tallinn, Estonia. The show was voiced by actors and comedians Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Laddi and Örn Árnason. Jól á leið til jarðar was rerun on Sjónvarpið in December 1999 and 2007. A physical advent calendar containing leads to each episode's plot was published in conjunction with the initial airing of the series.
Jól á leið til jarðar
1994
NRAfter narrowly avoiding death an elderly man tries to organize his own wedding while the relationships of his loved ones seem to be crumbling all around him.
My Wedding
2022
7.0No synopsis available yet.
My Funeral
2020
