Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...

The famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole (on Dec. 14, 1911), so when you watch “Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition,” you may think you’ve ...

Roald Amundsen was born on July 16, 1872, in Borge, Norway, to Jens Amundsen and Hannah Salqvist. The Amundsens had a successful shipping business, but Hannah insisted her fourth son become a ...

Roald Amundsen was born on July 16, 1872, in Borge, Norway, to Jens Amundsen and Hannah Salqvist. The Amundsens had a successful shipping business, but Hannah insisted her fourth son become a ...

Roald Amundsen was born on July 16, 1872, in Borge, Norway, to Jens Amundsen and Hannah Salqvist. The Amundsens had a successful shipping business, but Hannah insisted her fourth son become a ...

The subject of the sluggish Norwegian biopic “Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition” might be the polar explorer Roald Amundsen, but its star is frozen water.On clothing and facial hair, from ...

Captain Roald Amundsen, South Pole discoverer, who was frustrated by airplane defects in his attempt to fly across the North Pole from Alaska last Summer (TIME, June 18, 25), will try again next ...

MR. MURRAY has produced in a singular attractive form a remarkably clear and readable translation by Mr. Chater of Captain Roald Amundsen's account of his expedition to the Antarctic regions in ...

Roald Dahl , who wrote books such as Matilda, Charlie in The Chocolate Factory, and the Fantastic Mr Fox, was born in Landaff - a small town outside of Cardiff, Wales - to Norwegian parents.

Roald Amundsen was born on July 16, 1872, in Borge, Norway, to Jens Amundsen and Hannah Salqvist. The Amundsens had a successful shipping business, but Hannah insisted her fourth son become a ...