Bjørn Floberg

Acting

Bjørn Floberg

Born

1947-09-12 (79)

Place of birth

Tønsberg, Norge

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Bjørn Floberg (born 12 September 1947) is a Norwegian actor of film, television, and theatre. He is particularly noted for playing unsympathetic authority figures, but he has also had success playing other types of roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bjørn Floberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Silent Witness poster
7.6

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

Silent Witness

1996

Kingsman: The Secret Service poster
7.6

The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

2015

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey poster
6.8

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland. The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

2004

Der Kommissar und das Meer poster
5.6

The focus is on the Gotland investigation team led by Inspector Robert Anders, who originally comes from Germany, his assistants Karin Jacobson and Thomas Wittberg, and the pathologist Ewa, played by Pippi Longstocking actress Inger Nilsson.

Der Kommissar und das Meer

2007

Shackleton poster
7.2

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

Shackleton

2002

The Burning Sea poster
6.6

An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.

The Burning Sea

2021

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 11 titles

Kingsman: The Secret Service poster
7.6

The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

2015

Out Stealing Horses poster
6.3

November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance.

Out Stealing Horses

2019

A Somewhat Gentle Man poster
6.5

After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.

A Somewhat Gentle Man

2010

Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall poster
6.3

Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl.

Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall

2010

Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey poster
6.5

Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Even, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing Armakon, a weapons storage facility.

Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey

2011

Varg Veum - Black Sheep poster
5.7

Varg Veum promises his girlfriend that he will find her sister who has vanished.

Varg Veum - Black Sheep

2011

Varg Veum - Cold Hearts poster
5.6

Varg Veum is going to be a father. In a way he could never imagine, life takes on a new direction while he is searching for a missing pair of siblings in the prostitution circles in Bergen. Varg realizes that life will never be the same when he has to make a decision: Let the criminals go free or expose Karin to mortal danger.

Varg Veum - Cold Hearts

2012

Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy poster
6.3

Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?

Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy

2012

90 Minutes poster
5.8

Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising sophomore feature.

90 Minutes

2012

Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death poster
6.2

Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.

Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death

2011

Chasing Berlusconi poster
3.9

The slightly chubby harness racer Bjarte doesn't get the good horses anymore, and is forced to enter the criminal path in order to keep menacing creditors at bay. A fatal choice of partners ends up in a failed doping attempt, and a consequent kidnapping of the top horse Berlusconi.

Chasing Berlusconi

2014

2000s · 19 titles

Varg Veum - Buried Dogs poster
5.7

Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the Police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally and his wife is fatally wounded. Another member of the right-wing party, Marit Holm, approaches private investigator Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked.

Varg Veum - Buried Dogs

2008

I Am Dina poster
5.6

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.

I Am Dina

2002

Dark Woods poster
5.8

Five Norwegians head for a cabin in the wilderness for a few days of teambuilding. But strange things start happening — especially down by the water where they find an abandoned tent. Is there someone else?

Dark Woods

2003

O'Horten poster
6.3

Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train driver retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly from one city in Norway to another. Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a series of dislocating experiences: a boy insists that Odd sit by his bedside while he falls asleep; misadventure causes Odd to miss his last run; he witnesses an arrest; he assists an old man and makes a friend; he takes a trip with a blindfolded driver; he adopts a dog; he takes stock late one night at the roundhouse; he revisits his mother's disappointment in him. How should he live the rest of his life?

O'Horten

2007

Beyond poster
6.1

During the final days of WWII, chaos ruled. The German submarine U-461 went down along with its entire crew just off the coast of Denmark. U-461 however, was no ordinary submarine. 50 years after the war ended, two brothers go scuba diving for fun and discover that their every move is being watched and that some things should just be left alone.

Beyond

2000

Kitchen Stories poster
7.0

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.

Kitchen Stories

2003

Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge poster
5.7

An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the body is gone and the Police has arrived.

Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge

2008

Uno poster
6.5

Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle's gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars, purchase and distribute anabolic steroids.

Uno

2004

Fallen Angels poster
6.3

Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg accepts the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love. Meanwhile a serial killer is targeting members of Jacob's band and their families...

Fallen Angels

2008

Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers poster
5.9

Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.

Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers

2007

Music for Weddings and Funerals poster
4.5

Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder.

Music for Weddings and Funerals

2002

Round-Trip poster
6.3

11-year old Julia and Martin are tired of having to flip back and forth between their divorced parents and when they realize how much they look like, they decide to swap places. After meeting at an airport, the each embark on a journey that will change their lives forever.

Round-Trip

2003

The Return of the Dancing Master poster
5.2

Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...

The Return of the Dancing Master

2004

Cold Lunch poster
3.8

Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.

Cold Lunch

2008

The Diver poster
3.4

A thriller about deceit and the struggle for power within Eastern European mafia gangs living in exile in Sweden. Swedish fisherman Arne rescues a young Polish woman, Irena, after a mysterious incident at sea. Two people, both with a past, both determined never to fall in love again, are slowly drawn to each other. Irena has to learn to distinguish friend from foe. Arne must confront his nightmares to save the woman he loves.

The Diver

2000

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death poster
6.1

Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death

2008

Kjøter poster
7.0

A man brings home a ugly dog to annoy his wife.

Kjøter

2006

Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty poster
6.4

After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.

Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty

2008

Uro poster
5.9

Turning his back on a delinquent past and joining the police force, HP is determined to start doing the right thing. Soon he finds himself trapped in a web of lies, stretching out from both sides of the law. HP soon realizes that his present mission is closely connected to his own past, and that everything he worked so hard to escape from, is coming back to haunt him.

Uro

2006

1990s · 17 titles

Sophie's World poster
6.3

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?

Sophie's World

1999

Insomnia poster
7.0

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.

Insomnia

1997

The Viking Sagas poster
5.1

The film chronicles a long-ago time when men relied not on their intellect to make points, but on their swords. A mythical warrior ('Ralf Moeller (I)') wanders the snow-capped landscapes of the North territories on an arduous quest for vengeance. Amid nobles and schemers, saints and brutes, and lovers and fools, this Viking swings his sword for his family's honor, his beloved's hand, and the very survival of his pitiless culture.

The Viking Sagas

1995

Misery Harbour poster
4.9

A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.

Misery Harbour

1999

Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser poster
7.0

Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times.

Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser

1999

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die poster
5.5

A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die

1994

The Last Contract poster
5.8

Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.

The Last Contract

1998

Bloody Angels poster
6.9

A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is murdered in the remote village Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed her go missing. A police detective is sent to investigate and finds this very challenging.

Bloody Angels

1998

Dag 1 poster
7.0

The city must be evacuated. Everything is going to hell. But a man is on his way to town. He's going to a job interview, he's nervous and repeats over and over to himself: "Sorry I'm late... Sorry I'm late."

Dag 1

1997

Eye of the Eagle poster
5.9

In 1218 Danish king Valdemar sends his homonymous young son and heir in safety, as war is at the borders, to Erskil, the bishop of Ravensburg, who is instructed to see to the prince's education. Alas the bishop is the brain of a conspiracy to seize the crown for himself, as most of the nobles are dissatisfied with the endless wars that bring them no profit. The prince and kitchen-boy Aske accidentally fall out of the castle and overhear the conspirators, but are seen and pursued by the men of the One-eyed Man, a feared mercenary who is in the conspiracy to take mortal revenge on the king for leaving him behind on a battlefield where he lost an eye which was eaten by an eagle, which he tamed and now shares his sight with. Written by KGF Vissers

Eye of the Eagle

1997

The Last Lieutenant poster
7.4

Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at him and his out-dated uniform and officer-rank. Secondloitnanten then finds and leads his private troop of volunteers against the German attack. The movie tells the story of a man that refuses to give up, even when everybody else leaves. He will fight for the country he loves and do his duty.

The Last Lieutenant

1993

Frosset hjerte poster
7.3

Frozen heart tells the story of Roald Amundsen, a well known polar hero from Norway.

Frosset hjerte

1999

The Telegraphist poster
5.0

Set against the beautiful backdrop of northern Norway, this film tells the story of a telegraphist in a very small community at the turn of the century.

The Telegraphist

1993

The Last Viking poster
5.1

The son of Viking Harald is left behind in his village with women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against the king, but the king takes revenge by overtaking the village and tyrannizing the population.

The Last Viking

1997

Shut Up and Listen! poster
4.0

A stand-up comedian who loses his train of thought and his wife takes over the show with resounding success.

Shut Up and Listen!

1995

The Honour of the House poster
6.2

A hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger, unselfish and humanitarian sister by hiding the shame of her younger sister's pregnancy, with the purpose of upholding the aristocratic status of their name and household. Or that is what we are told, because underneath the facade, is a story of two sisters, who have had intimacy with the same man.

The Honour of the House

1999

Herman poster
6.0

"Herman", based on Lars Saabye Christensen's novel of the same name, tells the story of the young boy Herman who suddenly loses his hair and becomes bald at the age of eleven. It follows him through what is a very difficult period in his life, through big mood swings and irrational behaviour until he finally learns to accept himself for who he is.

Herman

1990

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 5 titles

Oss poster
3.6

Following political upheaval, traditionally poor countries have stopped exporting raw materials. The Western world is entering an economic crisis, which is rapidly spreading to Norway. Unemployment rises sharply, and it becomes more difficult to obtain food. The government does not officially acknowledge the crisis, but fear spreads among the population. Demonstrations between the population and the police are now a daily occurrence. Thomas and Vera are also unemployed. The only way out of their predicament is to move out of the city and rent an abandoned farm. The sale of food is banned. Military forces arrive to confiscate what little they have. Later, the city population follows, traveling to the countryside in panic to secure something to eat.

Oss

1976

Blood of the Railroad Workers poster
4.3

A group of migratory rail road workers arrive in a small town in Norway, and cause social conflict. One of the men, Sjugur, stands apart as a strong, independent man. The girls like him, but he has set his sights on the daughter of a wealthy landowner.

Blood of the Railroad Workers

1979

The Silent Majority poster
5.5

"The Silent Majority" - Young Øystein lives in a small apartment outside Oslo, where every day is filled with everyday habits, and he is constantly looking for someone to marry. Then he meets Britt, which hates conformity and traditional values.

The Silent Majority

1977

The Crown Prince poster
6.8

A political drama about Roald, a young man stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. Roald is politically ambitious but he does not have enough real-world savvy to protect himself from the shark-infested waters around him. After all, he has only been in office for a short time. His tendency to compromise on issues gets him into trouble in an election year when it is discovered that the CIA has been funding the Norwegian Young Labour Party.

The Crown Prince

1979

Kosmetikkrevolusjonen poster
5.2

The film opens in a small theatre, where the management of the company Clinox A/S watches their latest advertising push for the red condom Ding Dong . Everyone is excited and expect that here has been really could become a big bestseller . But the day after optimism disappears , Consumer Council prohibits the new condom . It is election year and the government is afraid the color offensive . Meanwhile, a mysterious woman named Lucy Ferner goes towards Oslo . She represents a Hong Kong group that is looking for a place where they can develop their energy consuming cosmetics industries.

Kosmetikkrevolusjonen

1977

Series credits

Silent Witness poster
7.6

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

Silent Witness

1996

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey poster
6.8

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland. The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

2004

Der Kommissar und das Meer poster
5.6

The focus is on the Gotland investigation team led by Inspector Robert Anders, who originally comes from Germany, his assistants Karin Jacobson and Thomas Wittberg, and the pathologist Ewa, played by Pippi Longstocking actress Inger Nilsson.

Der Kommissar und das Meer

2007

Shackleton poster
7.2

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

Shackleton

2002

Varg Veum poster
6.4

Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway.

Varg Veum

2007

Varg Veum poster
6.4

Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway.

Varg Veum

2007

Ammo poster
6.7

The Norwegian arms industry is in the midst of the introduction of artificial intelligence. Bjørn is given responsibility for a large arms deal. Who will be the scapegoat if innocents are killed with these weapons?

Ammo

2022

Lykkespill poster
NR

A game of chance begins when a tenement dweller is found dead in his kitchen after putting on a new frying pan he had won at bingo. The frying pan was placed among the prizes, and a mysterious bald person instructed the bingo leader to give it to the person who later became the victim.

Lykkespill

1977

Aksjemordet poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aksjemordet

1990

The Stowaway poster
6.7

A spaceship has 5 crew members. An alien kills one of the crew members which is replaced by a copy, but who is it?

The Stowaway

1978