Kalle Øby

Karl Gunnar "Kalle" Øby (born on 27th October 1946) is a Norwegian actor and voice actor and he is the narrator for the Norwegian dub of Thomas & Friends. He started to do narrations in the eighth series and departed after Tale of the Brave. He is also the narrator of the Norwegian dub of the Hero of the Rails video game.

He currently holds the record as the longest running narrator for Norway.

He has been in many Norwegian movies and television shows, including "At Martin's", "Courage In the Chest", and many more. Dubbing roles include Tex Dinaco in "Cars", Lotso in "Toy Story 3", the second series narrator in Brum" (taking over from Beate Mulholland), "Asterix and Obelix", and others.

He was succeeded by Ane Barmen from the eighteenth series onwards.