Erik Bye

Erik Bye was born on Mar 01, 1926 in USA. Erik Bye's big-screen debut came with Journey to the Sea directed by Arne Skouen in 1966, strarring Hilmar.

He was born Erik Erikssøn Bye in Brooklyn, New York in 1926 to Norwegian parents. The family returned home to Norway when Erik was to begin school. After a few years at Ringerike, Norway, they moved to Nordstrand - a suburb to Oslo. As a teenager he got involved in the resistance movement fighting the Germans occupying norway. He ended up having to escape to Sweden, where he joined the "Norwegian policetroops" (whose part it was to keep the peace and arrest war-criminals when the war ended in 1945 and they could all return home).