He played with the Norwegian national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, where the Norwegian team reached the quarter finals. He was capped 17 times for Norway, scoring one goal. Being an aviator lieutenant in the armed forces, he was held as a prisoner-of-war during World World War World War II He was first held at Grini detention camp, then in Schokken, Grune bei Lissa and Ostrzeszów in Nazi German occupied Poland, from 1942 until the war ended.
He died in Tune in 1974.