Per Johan Jansen (14 December 1941 – 8 August 2022) was a Norwegian stage and film actor.

Life and career

Jansen was born in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

on 14 December 1941. He made his stage debut at

Det Norske Teatret Det Norske Teatret ( en, Norwegian Theater)Moe, Jens. 2011. ''My America: The Culture of Giving''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, p. 133. is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabl ...

in 1966. He later had assignments at

Oslo Nye Teater Oslo Nye Teater is a theater located in Oslo, Norway. The theater has its main stage in its own theater house at Rosenkrantz' gate 10. It is one of Norway's most visited theatres. Oslo Nye Teater AS is wholly owned by Oslo Municipality. Histor ...

Riksteatret Riksteatret (English: National Traveling Theater) is a Norwegian touring theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or ima ...

, Hålogaland Teater,

Trøndelag Teater Trøndelag Teater is a large theater in the city of Trondheim, in Trøndelag county, Norway. Trøndelag Teater stages large-scale dance and musical performances. History Originally built in 1816, the theater is the oldest stage in Scandinavia ...

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and

Fjernsynsteatret Fjernsynsteatret was a department of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) which produced plays for television broadcasting. It opened in 1960 (after about a year of experimental operation), and operated until 1990, when a major reorganisati ...

. He played the

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in the film ''

Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland ''Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland'' ( no, Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland}) is a 1970 Norwegian drama film directed by Knut Andersen, and starring a broad cast of notable Norwegian actors, headed by Per Jansen as Ole Høiland. Ole ...

'' from 1970, and the main character in the films '' A Commuter Kind of Love'' from 1979 and ''

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'' from 1986. Jansen died on 8 August 2022, at the age of 80.Skuespiller Per Jansen er død

References

1941 births 2022 deaths Male actors from Bergen Norwegian male film actors Norwegian male stage actors 20th-century Norwegian male actors 21st-century Norwegian male actors {{Norway-actor-stub