Tore Breda Thoresen (29 January 1923 – 1 August 2008) was a Norwegian photographer, film director and theatre director. Thoresen was born in

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken (county), Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and village ...

to engineer Georg Thoresen and Edel Sofie Johnsen. In 1952 he married Ursula Jacobine Frost. Among his early films are '' Trost i taklampa'' from 1955 and ''

Elias rekefisker ''Elias rekefisker'' (Elias the Shrimp Fisher) is a 1958 Norwegian family film directed by Jan Erik Düring, starring Kristian Løvlie and Eva Svendsen. A family on an island in Southern Norway Southern Norway ( no, Sørlandet; lit. "The ...

'' from 1958, as photographer. He was appointed artistic director of

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 ...

from 1967 to 1980.

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1923 births 2008 deaths People from Drammen Norwegian photographers Norwegian film directors Norwegian theatre directors NRK people {{norway-film-bio-stub