Alf Malland

Alf Malland
Alf Malland (middle) during the production of Freske fraspark (1963)
Born	(1917-01-24)24 January 1917 Bergen, Norway
Died	16 August 1997(1997-08-16) (aged 80) Bærum, Norway
Other names	Mjølner Hansen
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1957–1981

Alf Malland (24 January 1917 – 16 August 1997) was a Norwegian actor.^[1]

He was born in Bergen, Norway. He began his acting career as a student at the Det Norske Teatret in Oslo. Following the German occupation of Norway during World War II, he quit as a theater student and participated in the resistance. Malland first went to Sweden and in 1942 he left for Great Britain where he trained as a paratrooper. He arrived at Finnmark in November 1944 as company commander with the Norwegian forces.^[1]

In 1946, he was again at Det Norske Teatret and took up his theater studies. He was first employed there then freelanced. He appeared in 42 films and television shows between 1949 and 1987. He starred in the Academy award nominated 1957 film Nine Lives, and in Struggle for Eagle Peak, which was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

• Alf Malland at IMDb