Biografia

Ove Sprogøe will get the road to the (Vridsløselille Statsfængsel) Vridsløselille State prison, where he ends up in most of the Olsen Banden movies, named after his character, (Egon Olsen Vej) Egon Olsen Road. The Albertslund city council has approved the name of the owned private road (though the road is private, its owned by the Danish state.). The new sign is expected to be up before Christmas 2004.

The idea for the name change came from two inmates that through the Danish newspaper Ekstra bladet, suggested it.

He never owned a TV set, mainly because he was afraid he would end up doing nothing else than watching TV.

On 24. of October 2005, the city of Odense, Denmark (Ove Sprogøes birth town) named a city square in his honor.

Shortly after his death in September of 2004, Nordisk Film - the production company behind all the Olsen-banden movies - established the Ove Sprogøe Scholarship Foundation. The foundation will pay scholarships to young and promising actors, actresses and directors.

He and his wife owned and lived in the private house closest to the runways at Copenhagen Airport (CPH). He loved his house in Tømmerup, and he keept on living there even as the airport expanded closer and closer to his house.