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Norwegian radio and television personality
Ada Haug
and Odd Grythe in 1965
Odd Horn Grythe
(14 November 1918 ? 7 February 1995) was a
Norwegian
radio and television personality.
Personal life
[
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]
He was born in
Lillehammer
as a son of a travelling salesman. He had four older siblings. From 1955 to 1958 he was married to
Kirsten Sørlie
. In March 1962 he married
Ada Haug
.
[1]
With his first wife he had the daughter
Hilde Grythe
, who married
Terje Tønnesen
.
[2]
Career
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edit
]
He
finished
his secondary education in his hometown, and then moved to
Oslo
. He worked different office jobs, and also for a short time at
Centralteatret
. During the Second World War he was a part of the
Norwegian resistance movement
in Lillehammer.
[1]
He was arrested on 23 March 1945 and was imprisoned in
Grini concentration camp
from 13 April 1945 until the war's end.
[3]
After the war, Grythe was a journalist and subeditor in
Dagningen
from 1946 to 1950. He was also a city council member for the
Labour Party
. He worked in
Lillehammer og omlands tiltaksrad
from 1950 to 1953, and from 1953 to 1959 as a film producing assistant and producer.
[1]
In 1959 he was hired as program secretary in
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
radio. On 20 August 1960 he hosted the first show after the official opening of
Norwegian television
,
Startskuddet gar
.
[1]
He hosted the
Melodi Grand Prix
in
1960
(with
Erik Diesen
),
1961
(with Erik Diesen),
1962
,
1963
,
1964
and
1965
.
[4]
In 1961 he was officially transferred from the radio department to television, and from 1966 to 1971 he headed the information department. From October 1971 to his retirement in 1985 he hosted the show
Husker du...
, an entertainment show for the elderly with
revue
performances, evergreens and musical numbers of the past.
[1]
In 1979 he was awarded the second
Se og Hør
readers' TV personality of the year award.
[5]
He also received the Humanist Prize from the
Norwegian Humanist Association
in 1989.
[1]
Part of his qualifications for the job stemmed from him touring retirement homes and sanatoria with musical acts. He continued doing so after retiring from television. In 1988 he released his memoirs,
Dette husker jeg...
(a play on
Husker du...
). He died in February 1995 in Oslo.
[1]
References
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]
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Dahl, Hans Fredrik
.
"Odd Grythe"
. In
Helle, Knut
(ed.).
Norsk biografisk leksikon
(in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget
. Retrieved
20 October
2010
.
- ^
Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007).
"Hilde Grythe"
.
Store norske leksikon
(in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget
. Retrieved
20 October
2010
.
- ^
Ottosen, Kristian
, ed. (2004).
Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940?1945
(in Norwegian) (2nd ed.). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 248.
ISBN
82-15-00288-9
.
- ^
ESC National Finals database 1960
,
1961
,
1962
,
1963
,
1964
,
1965
- ^
"Frøya med Arets TV-navn for femte gang".
Hitra-Frøya
(in Norwegian). 22 December 2009. p. 13.
Awards
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Preceded by
|
Se og Hør
's TV Personality of the Year
1979
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Succeeded by
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