Career
Skolmen also found a big audience in neighbouring Sweden co-starring in the five Sällskapsresan films as Ole Bramserud, the Norwegian sidekick of main character Stig Helmer-Olsson who was played by Swedish actor Lasse Åberg. In the 1980s he also co-starred in the wildly popular Swedish sketch comedy show Nöjesmassakern. In 2007, Skolmen again collaborated with his former partner Trond Kirkvaag, when he starred in the Norsk Rikskringkasting sitcom Luftens helter, which was created shortly before Kirkvaag"s death.
In the film, Skolmen and Schøyen were supposed to play lovers.
The characters" on-screen relationship was toned down to a near friendship to make the two actors less uncomfortable. Skolmen has also appeared on British children"s television
In 1971 he presented Play School for the British Broadcasting Corporation, though for one week only. In 1980 he appeared in a one-off special co-produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and Norsk Rikskringkasting called Jon, Brian, Kirsti and Jon in which he appeared with his compatriot Kirsti Sparboe, and the British performers Brian Cant (with whom Skolmen co-wrote the script) and Jonathan Cohen.