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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Skodsborg, Denmark

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Movie Involvements: 38

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

Handsome smart tall blonde Danish performer Johannes Meyer born in 1884. After graduating grom Gymnasium, Mayer applied twice to the Royal Theatre School and was twice rejected. He made his stage debut at the Dagmarteatret in Copenhagen in 1905 and went on to perform at nearly every theatre in Copenhagen. He appeared in more than 100 movies, making his first film playing the role of Erneste des Tressailles in Viggo Larsen's 'Revolutionsbryllup' at the Nordist Film Co in 1909, His most memorable role as Viktor Frandsen in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 'Master of the House' at the Palladium Film Co in 1925. He was mostly seen in character or supporting roles in many talkies from 1933 until his last film appearance playing the role of Bilvis in Gabriel Axel's 'Hagbard and Signe' in 1967. He was also active on radio and in T.V. dramas and was stage director of the Fonixteatret and Norrebros Theatre before he was hired by the Royal Theatre in 1941. Died in Denmark in 1972 age 88.

Most Famous Work

For frihed og ret
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6

For frihed og ret

(1949) Niels Nielsen
Leaves from Satan's Book
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6

Leaves from Satan's Book

(1920) Don Fernandez (second sequence)
Ullabella
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7

Ullabella

(1961) Overpræsident
Danmark for Folket
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5

Danmark for Folket

(1937) Hr. Justesen
Det store løb
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6

Det store løb

(1952) Vilhelm Stone (godsejer)
Besættelse
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5

Besættelse

(1944) Jens Steen, Manufakturhandler
Come Home With Me
Average
7

Come Home With Me

(1941) Valdemar Nielsen
The Red Horses
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8

The Red Horses

(1950) Købmand Hans Offor

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1967 Bilvis
1964 Hr. Bølling
Dr. Joachim Lindberg
1963 Zimmermann
Augustin
1962 N/A
N/A
1961 Læge A.H. Bonnesen
Overpræsident
1960 Rektor Halling
1959 N/A
1958 Kaptajn Vilhelm Hammer
Professor Ferdinand Schrøder
1955 Højesteretssagfører Hans Ovesen
Redaktøren på Sallinghavn Amtsavis
1954 Organist Sørensen
Vicevært Julius Jensen
N/A
1953 N/A
N/A
Herskabstjener Blackhøj
Klemmesen
Redaktøren
1952 Søren Torpegaard
Vilhelm Stone (godsejer)
Gårdejer Lauritz
Vicevært Johansen
Theodor Nielsen
Gulbæk, antikvar
Kesse
1951 Prokuristen
Godsejer Bjerre
Kommandanten
N/A
Zeus
Prokurist Nielsen
Arkitektens onkel, Pastor Mikael Rolff
1950 Claus Munk
N/A
N/A
Købmand Hans Offor
1949 Niels Nielsen
1948 N/A
N/A
Jonas Olsen
1947 Søren Hvass - Storbonde
Jennys far
N/A
1945 N/A
1944 Walter S. Nielson, impresario
N/A
Jens Steen, Manufakturhandler
Fuglesang
N/A
1943 N/A
Herbert Reimer
Ferdinand Piper, teaterdirektør
Magdas far
1942 Frederik Hagen
Organisten 'Bessefar'
1941 Kroejer Bartholdi
Obersten
Valdemar Nielsen
Theodor Woller, godsejer
1940 Tutein
N/A
Fyrst Ivar Rose
1939 N/A
Professor Dreyer, kunstmaler
N/A
1938 Kunstprofessor Abel
Fabrikant Schmidt
1937 Herkules' far
Direktør A. Schram
Hr. Justesen
1936 N/A
1935 N/A
Blikkenslager Mikkelsen
1934 Præsident for Papegøjesamfundet
Hans Blicher
N/A
Generaldirektør
Redaktør Johannes Halling
1933 Direktør Johan Nordborg
N/A
1925 Viktor Frandsen
1922 Rylowitsch
1920 Don Fernandez (second sequence)
1917 N/A
Wilton, prokurist
1914 N/A
Officer
1913 Werner
Year Character Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1955 Actor's Assistant
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing


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