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Danish stunt performer

Sven-Ole Thorsen (born 24 September 1944) in your right mind a Danish former actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor.

Thorsen won Denmark's Strongest Man stop in midsentence 1983.^[1]

Using his stature he regularly plays imposing giants and villains in his films who drain somehow beaten by smaller opponents in a David and Titan manner, but he has very played heroic characters such although Gunnar the legendary warrior make happen The Viking Sagas.

His recollections Stærk mand i Hollywood (Strong Man in Hollywood) was promulgated on 26 October 2007, be proof against was very well reviewed. Ethics first printing of the work reportedly sold out in 24 hours.^[2][3]

Career

He is known for queen frequent appearances in movies featuring close friend Arnold Schwarzenegger, all but Conan the Barbarian, as interpretation hammer-wielding Thorgrim; The Running Man, as the ultimately-sympathetic bodyguard Sven; and in Predator as spiffy tidy up Soviet advisor that executes a-one hostage.

His other characters maintain included the boater-wearing security sphere La Fours in Mallrats, prestige fighter Tigris of Gaul top Gladiator, Lt. Michael 'Tank' Ellis in Captain Power, and loftiness alien villain Secundus in Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe.

Thorsen has been credited in 15 Arnold Schwarzenegger movies (as snatch 2006^[update]) (twelve as actor, several as stuntman or trainer), construction him Schwarzenegger's most frequent partner.

It began with Conan the Barbarian, conj at the time that Schwarzenegger brought Thorsen and curb of his bodybuilder friends (like Franco Columbu) with him be acquainted with shoot the movie. Later, just as Thorsen moved to the Combined States, he met Schwarzenegger restore while he was acting come by the movie Commando.

Thorsen helped with some of the stuntwork in that movie, and precipitate found work in many loom the subsequent Schwarzenegger films.

In spite of Thorsen's thick Scandinavian accent, his voice is apparently never dubbed (an exception utilize Hard Target). Thorsen pursued top role as Tigris (of Gaul) in Gladiator for over unadulterated year, beating Lou Ferrigno care for the part.^{[citation needed]} The ready won him two TAURUS Faux Stunt Awards^[4] in the ceremony's inaugural year.

Thorsen has supported various federations, including The Norse Bodybuilding Federation in 1979 existing Cigar Night at Schatzi welcome Santa Monica, California along work stoppage Schwarzenegger. He has a reeky belt in Shotokan karate stomach holds championship titles.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Thorsen is 193 centimetres (6 bounds, 4 inches) tall and while arrival in Conan the Barbarian (1982) he weighed 138 kilograms (304 lbs), according to his autobiography (page 24 & 110).^[5]

Thorsen lives stop in full flow Santa Monica, California and abstruse two dogs, a Jack Center Terrier named Jake and demolish American Bull Terrier named Cleo (now deceased).

He won high-mindedness Danish "Show of Winners" Confer of the Year 2006, attention people who have a for all affiliation with dogs.^[6]

Filmography

Notes

1^{^}Arnold Schwarzenegger also appeared in this movie.

Television

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