He performed at the experimental Intimate Theater (Norwegian: Intimteatret) in 1922, during the one season it was active.

Lund's film debut was in 1926 in Rasmus Breistein's Brudeferden i Hardanger.

He appeared sporadically in films and on television until 1980, and he played twelve different roles altogether.

Around 1949, he took a break from the Norwegian Theater, during which he toured Europe with the dance troupe of the Indian dancer Ram Gopal.

[3] Lund was married first to the actress Dagmar Myhrvold (1898–1972),[6] and then in 1934 to Kathleen Austin (1917–1957).