Egil Eide

Acting

Egil Eide

Egil Næss Eide (24 August 1868 – 13 December 1946) was a Norwegian silent film actor and director. He appeared in eighteen films between 1913 and 1935, and worked at the National Theatre between 1899 and 1939.

Acting credits

Brother Against Brother poster
5.0

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.

Brother Against Brother

1913

The Price of Betrayal poster
6.7

An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.

The Price of Betrayal

1915

No artwork available
10.0

Iver loses his Romani-parents in an avalanche, and gets adopted by farmer Sjur. Years later, his background comes back to cause trouble in his personal life.

Fantegutten

1932

An Error poster
NR

Hedvig Rehmer, a widow with a young daughter, marries bank manager Wilhelm Hagberg. But her character is put in question when her daughter's father shows up alive.

An Error

1915

Saints and Sorrows poster
NR

Maria lives with her alcoholic father in a cabin the forest. One day she is seduced by the local land owner after he gives her a ring. Shortly afterwards he decides to leave the area and travel to Stockholm.

Saints and Sorrows

1914

No artwork available
NR

Engineer Gordon has made a new invention for the military and a master thief get the mission to steal the blueprints.

The Master Thief

1915

No artwork available
NR

The stock broker Franz Von Bierman has been speculating on the stock market and lost a lot of money.

For His Love’s Sake

1914

When Artists Love poster
NR

The famous painter Bernhard Steen has made a portrait of the actress Thora Flemming.

When Artists Love

1915

No artwork available
7.0

Describes the origin and development of the trade union movement.

Samhold må til

1935

Every Man Forges His Own Happiness poster
NR

Thomas Abel is a happily married man with children, and head of one of the largest companies in Sweden. His life will soon change after a serious accusation is made against him.

Every Man Forges His Own Happiness

1917

Mrs Bonnet’s Slip poster
NR

Beautiful young Eva is comfortably married to the wealthy Georg Bonnet, who enjoys the company of several artists and painters. When Eva finds herself drawn to handsome young artist Paul Verdier, she sets off a series of devestating events.

Mrs Bonnet’s Slip

1917

No artwork available
NR

The sailor John gets married and becomes a painting artist.

Ships That Meet

1916

The Norrtull Gang poster
6.6

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.

The Norrtull Gang

1923

The Wings poster
5.9

The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.

The Wings

1916

The Fishing Village poster
8.0

The widower Jakob Vindås lives with his daughter and his mother in a small west coast fishing community.

The Fishing Village

1920

The Fairy of Solbakken poster
7.5

Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.

The Fairy of Solbakken

1919

The Tyranny of Hate poster
6.2

It's the beginning of the 1800s. A feud between the people of Ödemo and Rävgården has been going on since the dawn of time and now it's worse than ever.

The Tyranny of Hate

1920

The Shot? poster
NR

During a duck hunt the local land owner Brandt has told his ranger and his son to sit in a boat and collect ducks as they are shot down. When Brandt's dog gets in the water he commands the ranger's son to jump in the water to save the dog but the boy drowns.

The Shot?

1914

Behind the camera