Toralv Maurstad
Toralv Maurstad (* November 24, 1926 in Bærum ) is a Norwegian actor, director and theater director.
Life
Maurstad graduated from 1949 to 1949 at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London drama school. First, he joined only in supporting roles, his debut as a lead actor in 1949 at Trøndelag Teater. 1951 moved Maurstad to Oslo and then worked at Det Nye Teater. His first major appearance in the film he had in 1951 konditori crane.
From 1954 Maurstad worked at Nationaltheatret in Oslo, where he participated in a number of comedies and contemporary plays, such as, among others, in Joe Osborne's Look Back in Anger. In 1962 he was awarded the Aamot -statuettes and in 1963 he received the critics prizes in the category Theatre Critics Award. Also looked at some classic interpretations, as Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and had the lead role in Erasmus Montanus, Peer Gynt and Brand. His most famous appearance was in 1961 in a guest role at Det Norske Teatret in the performance of Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill.
Maurstad was from 1967 to 1977 at the Oslo Nye Teater theater director and then on Nationaltheatret 1978-1986. His times were as a theater director at both houses marked by great artistic successes but also with unrest, such as when the Nationaltheatret eight actors to a strike calling.
After 1986 he worked until his retirement freelancing with several Norwegian theaters. Furthermore Maurstad still occurred until 2011 as an actor in several films and television series on.
Filmography
Actor and voice actor
Screenwriter
Director
Theater
- 2007: Beckett, " Krapp " in Last Tape ( Krapp's siste Spole )
- 2005: Waiting for Godot ( Vente på Godot ) « Vladimir »
- 1968: Cabaret, The Emcee
Awards
Family
Toralv Maurstad is the son of actor couple Alfred Maurstad and Tordis Maurstad and the half- brother of actress Mari Maurstad. He was then married his first wife, the Swedish actress Eva Henning with Anne- Ma Burum. New Year's Eve 1999, he married at the age of 73 years the then 39 -year-old Norwegian actress and director Beate Eriksen. 2001, a request of the couple to adopt a child was rejected because Maurstad was considered too old, as in Norway are required to be adoptive parents aged 25 to 45 years.