Leif Enger
Acting
Biography
Leif Enger was a Norwegian actor. Enger appeared in numerous productions for the Radio Theatre. He was also a frequently employed film actor, taking part in more than 20 productions. Among his most well-known films are Operation Leaf Spring, Hunger, and Englandsfarere.
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway
Known For
The Olsen Gang
Egon Olsen is the leader of the Olsen Gang. While he was in the slammer, he planned how he would steal the fantastic golden figure Keizeroppzatsen.
Millionær for en aften
Shipping broker Landheim tries to save a failing theater, but falls in love. Is the broker a journalist, and the actress a prima donna? Who knows?
Englandsfarere
The secret smuggling of Wanted persons from the westcoast of Norway over to England during the WWII, based upon the novel by Nowegian novelist Sigurd Evensmo, telling the true story about his own experiences during the war.
Clocks in the Moonlight
Four men are gathered to play a game of bridge, when the conversation turns to unnatural and occult events.
The Lost Sausage Maker
Private investigators Gløgg and Rask have been hired to trace a butcher (sausage-maker) who has disappeared. This leads the two into a number of adventures.
Operasjon Løvsprett
A group of very different men are summoned for their refresher training at Haglemoen military camp. One more strange than the other, we get to meet jovial salesman Goggen Rask, car mechanic Bottolph Johansen, nicknamed daydreamer, and ship-owner Rieber Larsen Jr. They form an unruly faction which Major Kampstrup struggles to maintain structured and prepared, not to mention keeping them inside the camp premises before they pretend sick to see the nurses Bitten and Florence. The men do their best to get through their rigourous training, with great confusion and comical situations.
Op med hodet!
The stuttering Theobald stumbles upon some ballet girls who are in town with a touring theater company and falls in love with Lill. This leads to an interest in becoming an actor, and a theater manager sees him as an unintentional comic relief on stage.
Gullfjellet
The city boy Rolf gets a job on a big farm, and soon lies about finding gold. We see the rise of gold fever while the corn rots away.
Bustenskjold
Jens von Bustenskjold is a farmer despite his more promising family past when his family was of a fine descent. But he is lazy, and he wants to improve by marrying rich. Then he inherits a large sum of money.
Storfolk og småfolk
The wealthy farmer sits safely on his ancestral farm, and the hard-working tenant farmer lives on the hill below. The horse dealer at the coach station will trick the innocent farmer, who is not so innocent after all, with cunning tricks. The mischievous boy who bullies the servants when his mother and father are away, the kind-hearted little boy who helps his grandfather when no one else will listen to the old man, the village eccentric who never tires of recounting his youthful adventures in the city, the worn-out wife who will not send her cow to the show at any price.
Filmography
as Mistenkelig herre
as Laseth, homeless
as Harry
as Kunsthandleren
as Generalen
as En annen tyv
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Tjenere
as Sjåføren
as Jakob Vollen
as Barratt
as Larsen
as Skuespiller
as Skurken