Wenche Foss

Acting

Wenche Foss

Born — Died

1917-12-05 — 2011-03-28

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Known for

Scenes from a Marriage poster
8.1

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

Scenes from a Marriage

1974

Scenes from a Marriage poster
8.1

Johan and Marianne's marriage appears stable, but their relationship begins to unravel when Johan reveals an affair. Over several years, we follow their separation, divorce, and continued interactions as they form new relationships while remaining emotionally bound to one another.

Scenes from a Marriage

1973

Andreas Diesens portretter poster
NR

Andreas Diesen presents biographical portraits of Norwegian entertainers famous from the stage, television and cinema.

Andreas Diesens portretter

2009

The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix poster
7.8

100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion.

The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

1975

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

Vestavind poster
6.0

Norwegian drama TV series.

Vestavind

1994

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 7 titles

1970s · 8 titles

Scenes from a Marriage poster
8.1

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

Scenes from a Marriage

1974

The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix poster
7.8

100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion.

The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

1975

Song of Norway poster
5.3

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.

Song of Norway

1970

No artwork available
NR

A middle-aged couple, Daniel and Cecilie, lives in a large house. They have a son, but he has left them, and they do not even know if he is alive. While Cecilie is alone in the house, three young people and one older person come in. They are friends with the son. Conflicts arise between Cecilie - and later Daniel - and the invaders.

Aske

1973

Operasjon V for vanvidd poster
4.5

Five young men are planning a crime of forcing a plane down to rob the passengers.

Operasjon V for vanvidd

1970

Fru Biksby og oberstens skinnkåpe poster
3.5

A high comedy about a dental family with an office on the best western edge, where the lady of the house is mixed up in a delicate intrigue in her efforts to get a new fur.

Fru Biksby og oberstens skinnkåpe

1974

No artwork available
8.5

Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)

John Gabriel Borkman

1978

Bør Børson Jr. poster
5.9

Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.

Bør Børson Jr.

1974

1960s · 9 titles

The Wild Duck poster
5.3

The play opens in the study at Hakon Werle's house during a dinner party for the return of Werle's son, Gregers, from the Hoidal mines. Gregers has not come home for fifteen years. Old Ekdal appears before two servants, begging to be let into the office. Ekdal was an army officer and partner to Werle until a forestry scandal sent him to prison over some scandal. He now works as one of Werle's copyists.

The Wild Duck

1963

Lykke og krone poster
9.0

Depicts the royal houses of Europe (Norwegian, British, Belgian and Dutch) as well as Iran and the Principality of Monaco.

Lykke og krone

1962

Oslofilm: Bak kulissene poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oslofilm: Bak kulissene

1964

No artwork available
7.5

A South African student attends a Norwegian university back in the days when this was unusual. Norwegian TV-drama starring Earle Hyman (grandpa from Cosby Show) as something as rare as an African in Oslo (1960's).

The African

1966

Tonny poster
6.4

Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release. We get to see his experiences in prison and his relationship with his mother, friends and girlfriend Kari.

Tonny

1962

About Tilla poster
6.5

One autumn day, Ivar goes to the Botanical Garden in Oslo to visit Maria who is the mother of a little girl named Tilla. Ivar is a child psychologist and had Tilla observed a few months earlier. Treatment for her was agreed upon, but Maria has not returned with Tilla. Now Ivar finds her sleeping under a tree in the garden, and he meets Maria bent over a microscope in the laboratory. Maria has become even more nervous and unbalanced than the last time he met her, because nothing has been "corrected" as quickly as she had hoped -- Tilla has not spoken now for a year and a half. Maria herself is on her way to being as closed off as her own little girl. Ivar persuades Maria to come to the pediatric psychiatric clinic with Tilla so they can begin her treatment. There she meets Mimi Backer. But neither does Mimi get Maria to open up about her experiences with Tilla. In the clinic's observation room, however, the first little flicker of light falls on the mystery...

About Tilla

1963

Episode poster
10.0

Tensions arise when a mother falls for her son's friend.

Episode

1963

No artwork available
6.5

Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?

Cocktailparty

1967

No artwork available
8.0

Wenche Foss hosts a series of commercials and infomercials. The twentieth in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".

Gjør det lettere

1967

1950s · 7 titles

Krane's Confectionery poster
7.0

A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life

Krane's Confectionery

1951

The bridal bouquet poster
10.0

Siv Blom is a young impulsive girl with a special ability to come up in extraordinary situations. She also sleepwalks and one day strolling she sleepwalks unsuspecting into the bedroom to the sublime painter 'Picasso'. The art painter comes to admire her naivete, but doesn't have enough time for her. After that Siv stumbles across a new man, a junior manager in the firm Høyland & Høyland. Høyland jr. falls for Miss Blom, but definitely not his mother. Therefore Siv is sent on business to Stockholm and thus she meets man no. 3, the womanizer Victor Wahlin. Who to marry now that Siv has acquired three very eager suitors whom all wants Siv's consent. The stage is set for many intrigues. Who wins?

The bridal bouquet

1953

Portrettet poster
8.0

The film takes place in the idyllic town of Solsund. Per Haug, a temporary worker, bachelor, amateur painter and leader of the political opposition in the city council, lives there. One day he rushes home from a turbulent city council meeting and angrily paints a portrait of Mayor Abrahamsen.

Portrettet

1954

Det kunne vært deg poster
5.8

Maisen is newly married to the architect Harald, but on the way home he loses the key to their flat. They have to ask their neighbor for help, a man with a new girl every night. But when their marriage falters, the neighbor steps up.

Det kunne vært deg

1952

The Disappearance of a Young Wife poster
6.5

The young wife of an upper-class academic disappears while her husband is on holiday. In his search for her, the husband learns that there was much he did not know both about her past and about their relationship.

The Disappearance of a Young Wife

1953

The Master and His Servants poster
6.6

While Sigurd Helmer is being dressed in his bishop's robes, the fanatical Tornkvist arrives at the ordination and watches from the background. Even before the ordination is over, he goes to the police. He has evidence that Helmer has stolen the office with the help of anonymous letters that slandered Tornkvist in the battle for the bishop's crozier. At the banquet in the bishop's residence, Tornkvist drops the accusation like a bomb. At the same time, he announces his engagement to Helmer's daughter, and the banquet table dissolves into complete confusion. Only Helmer's wife stands firm in her belief in his innocence. Helmer is then brought to trial, accused by Tornkvist. Based on Axel Kielland's play from 1955.

The Master and His Servants

1959

Støv på hjernen poster
8.0

The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands and kids.

Støv på hjernen

1959

1940s · 7 titles

Tørres Snørtevold poster
7.4

The young fisherman Tørres wants to become rich, so he can get revenge over Krøger, who has taken his family home. He gets a job in Mrs. Knudsen's shop to establish himself, and after a short time he has the upper hand on Krøger...

Tørres Snørtevold

1940

Et spøkelse forelsker seg poster
8.0

A Norwegian mistaken identity comedy. At Krogheby Manor, owned by the Vinkelkrogh family, four ghosts reside. Per Aabel plays Johnny Vinkelkrogh, who visits his aunt Clementine. He happens to look exactly like one of the ghosts, and confusion ensues when the two are mistaken for each other.

Et spøkelse forelsker seg

1946

No artwork available
10.0

General director Strøm will create a large Norwegian industrial company to tame waterfalls and put them in pipes. But also his wife Sylvia, the gifted pianist, must be tamed. However, Strøm discovers that human material is considerably more difficult to process than the forces of nature.

Trollfossen

1948

No artwork available
8.0

A film biography of Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.

Rikard Nordraak

1945

Jeg drepte! poster
7.0

A friend of the surgeon Bøhmer has to have his appendix removed, but during the anesthesia he reveals he loves the doctor's wife, which makes Bøhmer want to kill him. Three days later the patient dies. Did Bøhmer kill him?

Jeg drepte!

1942

The Dangerous Game poster
7.0

Known architect Jean Blomis married with two kids, living in a modern condo, though being very outgoing, his wife isn't. After learning about scientist Holm's new hormone, he hopes to feed his wife with it to get her pepped up.

The Dangerous Game

1942

En herre med bart poster
6.0

The title of this film "En herre med bart" translates as "A Gentleman with a mustache." It is the the story of a married couple, a hardworking lawyer and his wife. The wife is fed up with the marriage and wants a divorce, something the husband won't let her have.

En herre med bart

1942

Series credits