P%C3%A5l Bang Hansen

Pl BangHansen was a Norwegian actor, film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is particularly known as a television personality and film expert at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, leading the television film show Filmmagasinet for more than thirty years.

BangHansen was born in Oslo, the son of writer Odd BangHansen and physician Elise Aas. He was married to Oddbjrg Havik, and was the brother of actor and theatre director Kjetil BangHansen . As a young boy he regularly participated in audio plays for children. Among his main characters were the master detective Blomkvist in adaptations of Astrid Lindgrens childrens books . He made his film debut as a child, when he played the character Sofus in Arne Skouens film Gategutter from 1949. He played the character Tom in the childrens film Tom og Mette p sporet from 1952, directed by Lauritz Falk, based a book by BangHansens father. After finishing his examen artium in 1957 he worked for a time on film commercials. He studied film in Italy at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia , the Italian National film school, from 1959 to 1961, and spent one year with the Italian film industry. He was a journalist and film critic for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet from 1962 to 1966.

Source: Wikipedia