Tommy Karlsen Sandum was found dead in his home in Oslo on Tuesday, news is informed. He lived to be 48 years old. The cause of death is currently unknown. The family confirms the death to news. – We are devastated. Tommy was inalienable to us. Now we ask for peace in the grief, writes his brother Raymond Karlstad in an e-mail. The actor was best known for his roles as Proffen in the films about “Pelle and Proffen” in the 90s and as Arne in the TV series “Lilyhammer”, which ran from 2012 to 2014. Karlsen was also among the country’s most used voice actors in the last 20 years . Among other things, he has played the Norwegian voice for Donald Duck and Shrek. He has also had a number of supporting roles in series such as “The third eye” and “Hotel Cæsar” and in films such as “Villmenn” and “Ingenting å le af”, in addition to reading several audio books. Last year he played one of the main roles in the play “Veps” at Grünerløkka guerilla theater. – An unbelievably sad day Actor Håvard Bakke (49) played Pelle in the films about “Pelle and the Pro”. – This is an incredibly sad day. I have lost one of my best friends of 25 years, and someone with whom I shared a completely unique story from when we were teenagers, he says. Håvard Bakke and Tommy Karlsen at Oslo S. Photo: Sara Høines Bakke describes Karlsen as extremely kind, loyal and well-intentioned. – He had a large circle around him who were terribly fond of him. Tommy was a guy who was easy to like, he says. It was a shock to him to receive the news of death. – You should not die when you are 48 years old. It makes no sense, says Bakke. – Eternally grateful that there were two of us. The breakthrough with the films about “Pelle and the Proffen” was a lot to digest for two teenage boys, says Bakke. Håvard Bakke (right) together with Tommy Karlsen on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Pelle og Proffen films. Photo: Sara Høines – We share a story that no one else has had in this country. There was no one who had experienced what we experienced in the 90s in the same way as us in Norway, he says. Bakke is happy that he could stand in the spotlight together with Karlsen. – I am eternally grateful that there were two of us. The fact that we were able to support and help each other through it was absolutely invaluable to us coming out of that experience as well as we did, he says. The extremely popular films about Pelle and Proffen, “Døden på Oslo S” (1990), “Giftige Løgner” (1992) and “De blå ulvene” (1993), were based on the books by Ingvar Ambjørnsen and created wild conditions in the cities where the protagonists went on launch tour to. In 1990, twice as many people saw “Death in Oslo S” as “Home Alone”. According to news’s case on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of “Death in Oslo S”, the duo, among other things, had to evacuate from a venue in Ålesund because the fans “went bananas”. Also “Lilyhammer”, which first aired on Netflix and later news, was groundbreaking for Netflix, both in that the series was the first to publish all the episodes of it at the same time, and that it was the streaming giant’s first original production.
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