Jens Bolling

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title: "Jens Bolling" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1915-births", "1992-deaths", "people-from-levanger-municipality", "norwegian-theatre-directors", "norwegian-male-stage-actors", "norwegian-male-film-actors", "20th-century-norwegian-male-actors"] description: "Norwegian actor and theatre director" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Bolling" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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name	Jens Bolling
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birth_place	Levanger, Norway
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nationality	Norwegian
occupation	actor and theatre director
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Jens Bolling (23 June 1915 – 13 December 1992) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He was among the founders of Studioteatret, and a well-known interpreter of Norwegian fairy-tales.

Early and personal life

Bolling was born in Levanger, as the son of saw mill manager Sigvard Bolling and Borghild Elnan. He grew up at the farm Brekke in the valley Maridalen north of Oslo. His mother died early, and his grandmother took her place. She was an eminent narrator of legends and fairytales. Also story telling among the farm workers and mill workers had influence on Bolling's later acting career. He had his first performance experience when he was seven years old, in a former hen house, playing Ludvig Holberg's Jeppe.

He was married three times; first to actress Liv Strømsted from 1945 to 1952. He was then married to actress Ingrid Bothner, and later to actress Marit Bolling.

Career

Bolling was employed at the National Theatre in Oslo from 1936 to 1945. Bolling was forced to play the lead role in Halvorsen's propaganda play Før stormen, after two other actors had fled to Sweden in order to avoid playing the role. and from then the actors at Nationaltheatret initiated a silent sabotage, resulting in all sorts of difficulties for the management.

In 1941 Bolling was elected chairman of the organisation Unge Skuespilleres Forening. This organisation started underground meetings, often at Bolling's home, where they secretly studied the Stanislavski's system. The result of these undercover meetings was the founding of the theatre Studioteatret in 1945.

Bolling played for Studioteatret from 1945 to 1949, and served as theatre director at Rogaland Teater from 1949 to 1951. Among his roles at Rogaland Teater was the lead role in Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, and "Helmer" in A Doll's House.

Filmography

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1938	Det drønner gjennom dalen	Streikebryter
1942	Det æ'kke te å tru	Olaf Borg
1951	Dei svarte hestane	Henrik Nordbø
1952	Emergency Landing	Knut
1957	Nine Lives	Alfred, kjelketrekker
1962	Kort är sommaren	The Blacksmith
1982	Krypskyttere	Arthur Skjolden
1985	Havlandet	Den Blinde
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References

References

1. Lyche, Lise. "Jens Bolling". Kunnskapsforlaget.
2. Rønneberg, Anton. (1949). "Nationaltheatret gjennom femti år". Gyldendal.
3. Ringdal, Nils Johan. (1995). "Gleditsch, Henry". Cappelen.

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