[1] Thorlief Lund made his stage debut as an actor at the Nationaltheatret (The National Theater) in Oslo in 1905.
[1] After several years, Lund went with his actress wife Ebba Thomsen and several other former Nordisk Film actors: Philip Bech, Alma Hinding and Birger von Cotta-Schønberg on a theater tour on Norway and Sweden, but without great success.
After the retiring from the film industry, he worked as a businessman, particularly as an advertising manager at Magasin du Nord.
[2] Thorleif Lund was married twice, first on 7 October 1908 to Janne Lange Kielland Holm which ended in divorce.
Lund died on 30 June 1956 at age 76 and is buried at Gentofte Cemetery in Copenhagen County, Denmark.