Jump to content

Øivind Johnssen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by KasparBot (talk | contribs) at 09:21, 24 May 2016 (migrating Persondata to Wikidata, please help, see challenges for this article). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Øivind Johnsen (26 May 1922 – 1 February 2005) was a Norwegian sports journalist, broadcaster and actor.

After several years of studying Drama in the United Kingdom, Johnsen began working in radio plays for Norwegian Listener, he also acted on stage in plays such as Hamlet. In 1959 he joined the Norwegian radio and television company NRK as a sports commentator for which he commentated on football and tennis games. He covered the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics for NRK. During the coverage for the 1988 Olympic games, Johnsen suffered a stroke. In addition to sporting events Johnsen also commentated on the Norwegian Constitution Day for 20 times and was the NRK commentator for the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.

Johnsen died on February 1, 2005, after suffering another stroke.