Mattis Leonid Rakov Alexevitch Mathiesen (30 June 1924 – 9 October 2010) was a Norwegian photographer and film director. He hailed from

Ålesund Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrativ ...

. His grandfather was a Russian immigrant. Mathiesen stayed in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, where he learned photography. He worked in the company Teamfilm. He did the photography for, among others, ''

Elskere ''Elskere'' ( en, Lovers}) is a 1963 Norwegian drama film directed by Nils R. Müller, starring Ingerid Vardund and Wenche Myhre Wenche Synnøve Myhre (born 15 February 1947), known in some countries as Wencke Myhre, is a Norwegian singer wh ...

'' (1963) and '' Vildanden'' (1963, TV 1989). In 1970 he won the Aamot-statuetten. He was also the photographer for the Olsenbanden films. He was the producer of ''Viva Villaveien!'' (1989) and distributor of '' Fredrikssons fabrikk'' (1994). He lived in

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

, and died in October 2010.

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1924 births 2010 deaths Norwegian photographers Norwegian film producers Norwegian people of Russian descent Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom People from Ålesund People from Bærum {{Film-producer-stub