Personal Info
Birth date
1947-09-12 (78 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tønsberg, Norge
Also known as
-Bjørn Floberg
Biography
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.
Filmography
Silent Witness
7.6
Overview:
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.Kingsman: The Secret Service
7.623
Overview:
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.The Last Viking
4.4
Overview:
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.Kosmetikkrevolusjonen
4.5
Overview:
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.The Burning Sea
6.6
Overview:
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.O'Horten
6.5
Overview:
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?Varg Veum - Black Sheep
5.8
Overview:
Varg Veum promises his girlfriend that he will find her sister who has vanished.Blücher
6.5
Overview:
Blücher is a 1988 Norwegian thriller film directed by Oddvar Bull Tuhus, starring Helge Jordal, Frank Krog and Hege Schøyen. Two North Sea divers who have recently been fired plan to vindicate themselves by a pioneer expedition to the wreckage of the German cruiser Blücher, at the bottom of the Oslofjord. The expedition soon becomes entangled in political intrigues.Hair of the Dog
7
Overview:
A stolen bicycle case ends with drunken detective/lawyer Alexander 'Lex' Larsen having to clear Vigdis Wang of a murder charge. Unofficially based on the book Din, til døden, by Gunnar Staalesen.An Eye for an Eye
NYR
Overview:
While Pakistani immigrant Bashir has a love affair with a Norwegian woman, he witnesses a crime and sees a chance to blackmail the wrongdoer.Insomnia
7.04
Overview:
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.The Viking Sagas
5.3
Overview:
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 Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
6.9
Overview:
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.Blood of the Railroad Workers
2
Overview:
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.Herman
5.8
Overview:
"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.Dark Woods
5.8
Overview:
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?Chasing Berlusconi
4.2
Overview:
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.Misery Harbour
5
Overview:
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.Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
5.5
Overview:
A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.Paper Bird
NYR
Overview:
The young Oslo lawyer Helen sees a man fall from a balcony, and realizes afterwards it's her father. Suicide or murder?Margrete: Queen of the North
6.529
Overview:
1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union.Uro
5.9
Overview:
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.Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers
5.9
Overview:
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.Kitchen Stories
6.955
Overview:
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.The Last Lieutenant
7.4
Overview:
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.I Am Dina
5.55
Overview:
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.90 Minutes
5.7
Overview:
Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising sophomore feature.The Honour of the House
5.2
Overview:
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.Acting
2022More Than Ever as Mister
2022Ammo (6 Episodes) as Ole
2021The Burning Sea as William Lie
2021Margrete: Queen of the North as Asle Jonsson
2021Clue: The Maltese Mystery as Gamle-Tim
2019Out Stealing Horses as Lars
2015Kingsman: The Secret Service as Scandinavian Prime Minister
2014Chasing Berlusconi as Malte
201290 Minutes as Johan
2012Varg Veum - Cold Hearts as Jacob Hamre
2012Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy as Jacob Hamre
2011Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey as Jacob Hamre
2011Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death as Jacob Hamre
2011Varg Veum - Black Sheep as Jacob Hamre
2010Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall as Jacob Hamre
2010A Somewhat Gentle Man as Rune Jensen
2008Varg Veum - Buried Dogs as Jacob Hamre
2008Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge as Jacob Hamre
2008Varg Veum - Fallen Angels as Hamre
2008Varg Veum - Yours Until Death as Jacob Hamre
2008Cold Lunch as Kildahl
2008Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty as Jacob Hamre
2007O'Horten as Flo
2007Der Kommissar und das Meer (1 Episode) as Björn Larsson
2007Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers as Jacob Hamre
2007Varg Veum (6, 6 Episode) as Hamre, Polizeichef Hamre
2006Uro as Frank Hermansen
2006Kjøter as Unknown
2004The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey (7 Episodes) as Nils Hauge
2004Uno as Jarle
2004The Return of the Dancing Master as Lasse Rundstroem
2003Round-Trip as Uncle Swerker, Torkel's brother
2003Kitchen Stories as Grant
2003Dark Woods as Gunnar
2002Music for Weddings and Funerals as Peter
2002I Am Dina as Edvard, Dina's Father
2002Shackleton (1 Episode) as Sorlie
2000Beyond as André
2000The Diver as Claes
1999The Honour of the House as Viggó
1999Misery Harbour as Johan Hoeg
1999Sophie's World as Major Albert Knag
1999Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser as Jack
1999Frosset hjerte as Amundsen (voice)
1998Bloody Angels as Presten
1998The Last Contract as Tom Nielsen, the hitman
1997Dag 1 as Unknown
1997Eye of the Eagle as Unknown
1997Insomnia as Jon Holt
1997The Last Viking as Unknown
1996Silent Witness (1 Episode) as Unknown
1995Hører du ikke hva jeg sier! as Stig
1995The Viking Sagas as Sighvat
1994Cross My Heart and Hope to Die as Wiik
1993The Last Lieutenant as Kerlow
1993The Telegraphist as Ove Rolandsen
1990Herman as Far
1990Aksjemordet (3 Episodes) as Skipsreder Harbitz-Larsen
1988Hair of the Dog as Sebastian Ramberg
1988Blücher as Lunde
1985An Eye for an Eye as Oscar, restauranteier
1984Paper Bird as Pål Brenden
1979Blood of the Railroad Workers as Jensa-Jens
1979The Crown Prince as Erik
1978The Stowaway (3 Episodes) as Akeron
1977Game of Chance as Espen Tofte
1977Kosmetikkrevolusjonen as Redaktør
1977The Silent Majority as Jesus-freak
1976Oss as Fenrik