Claus Wiese
Acting
Biography
Claus Wiese was born in Lillestrøm, but later moved to Oslo. He began his acting career at Det Nye Teater right after finishing secondary school. The following year, in 1946, he made his film debut in Englandsfarerne. He achieved great success in the leading role of Edith Carlmar’s debut film Death Is a Caress in 1949. In 1950, he married the American woman Joan Ann Trapp. In the United States, Claus worked in television, first as an editor, then as a production manager, and later as operations manager and station director.
Known For
A documentary series about NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster.
The Entertainment Machine
Ambros Fornes owns two large farms and stunning four horses. These horses comes to fill his life because his young beautiful wife, Lisle, does not manage to love him as he loves her.
Dei svarte hestane
A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.
Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.
Love Wins Out
The secret smuggling of Wanted persons from the westcoast of Norway over to England during the WWII, based upon the novel by Nowegian novelist Sigurd Evensmo, telling the true story about his own experiences during the war.
Englandsfarere
An engaged mechanic begins a tempestuous affair with a rich married woman.
Death Is a Caress
The difficult priest Kruse is against the business community's town mid-summer party planned by Garman. Based on the novel by Alexander Kielland.