Acting credits
3
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Ingvar Ambjørnsen
Writing
Career Snapshot
ExplainedThese indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.
TMDB popularity
2.5
Moderate attention
TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.
Movies: 10Series: 2Crew credits: 9
TMDB ID: 49557
IMDb ID: nm0024310
Known for: Writing
Born: May 20, 1956
Died: July 19, 2025
Age: 69
Place of birth: Larvik, Norway
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1990 - 2015
Years active: 26
Average TMDB rating: 6.04
Wikidata: Q706658
Other jobs
Novel (8)Short Story (1)
Biography
Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (20 May 1956 – 19 July 2025) is considered to be one of the great storytellers of contemporary Norwegian literature. Since his literary debut in 1981, Ambjørnsen has written a great number of novels, collections of short stories as well as essay collections, and several books for children and young readers. Over the span of his career, he has won numerous awards, including the Riverton Prize, the Brage Prize Honorary Prize, the Norwegian Booksellers’ Award and the Aschehoug Prize. Ingvar Ambjørnsen has been published in 30 countries. Several of his novels have successful films and theatre adaptions. The movie Elling, based on Ambjørnsen’s novels The Chicken Dance and Beyond the Great Indoors, was nominated to an Oscar in 2001.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Ingvar Ambjørnsen.
5.3
Revenge
Novel
2015 Movie
9.0
The White Nigger
as Himself
2011 Movie
6.2
The Last Joint Venture
Novel
2008 Movie
6.8
Love Me Tomorrow
Novel
2005 Movie
5.7
Mother's Elling
Novel
2003 Movie
4.1
Dragonflies
Short Story
2001 Movie
7.1
Elling
Novel
2001 Movie
5.8
The Blue Wolves
Novel
1993 Movie
4.5
Lethal Lies
Novel
1992 Movie
5.9
Death at Oslo Central
Novel
1990 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ingvar Ambjørnsen.
