List of Danish film directors
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This is a list of Danish film directors. It includes some foreign-born film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
s who have worked in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
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- Marc Ahlberg
- Johannes Allen
- Asbjørn AndersenAsbjørn AndersenAsbjørn Andersen was a Danish film actor and director. He appeared in over 90 films between 1930 and 1976...
- Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen
- Nikolaj Arcel
- Morten ArnfredMorten ArnfredMorten Arnfred is a Danish film director and screenwriter. His 1983 film Der er et yndigt land was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won an Honourable Mention...
- Natasha ArthyNatasha ArthyNatasha Arthy is a Danish screen writer, film director and producer, best known for her 2003 Dogme film Se til venstre, der er en Svensker , which received the Grand Jury Prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival.-Director:* Fightgirl Ayse*Fighter *Se til venstre, der er en Svensker...
- Bille AugustBille AugustBille August is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1991 for The Best...
- Gabriel AxelGabriel AxelGabriel Axel is an Oscar winning Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast , which he wrote and directed....
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- Erik Balling
- Poul BangPoul BangPoul Bang was a Danish film producer and director. He produced 24 films between 1950 and 1967...
- Aske Bang
- Peter BayPeter BayPeter Bay is Music Director and Conductor of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Oregon, and Music Director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra.-Life:He graduated from the University of Maryland and the Peabody Institute....
- Ole Berggreen
- Piv Bernth
- Susanne BierSusanne BierSusanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy-Award-winning In a Better World.-Life and work:Susanne Bier was born to Jewish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark...
- Jens Bjerre
- August BlomAugust BlomAugust Blom was a Danish film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films during the "golden age" of Danish filmmaking from 1910 to 1914.-Career:...
- Christoffer BoeChristoffer BoeChristoffer Boe is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is an established and well-known not only in Denmark, but all through the world. Among his international awards there are FIPRESCI Director of the Year at San Sebastián International Film Festival and Golden Camera at Cannes Film...
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- Henning CarlsenHenning CarlsenHenning Carlsen is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of Cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger was nominated for the Palme D'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film...
- Jon Bang Carlsen
- Benjamin ChristensenBenjamin ChristensenBenjamin Christensen was a Danish film director, screenwriter and an actor both in film and on the stage. As a director he is most well known for the 1922 film Häxan and as an actor, he is best known for his performance in the film Michael , in which he plays Claude Zoret, the jilted lover of the...
- Bent Christensen
- Pernille Ficher Christensen
- Thorbjørn Christoffersen
- Erik Clausen
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- Søren Fauli
- Jørn Faurschou
- Erik Faustmann
- Stefan Fjeldmark
- Edward FlemingEdward FlemingEdward Lascelles Fleming was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He unsuccessfully contested the Leigh constituency at the 1922 general election, and did not stand again until the 1931 general election, when he won the Manchester Withington seat...
- Per FlyPer FlyPer Fly Plejdrup is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He is married to Danish actress Charlotte Fich. They have the children Anton and Aksel together.-Biography:...
- Peter Schønau Fog
- Gert FredholmGert FredholmGert Fredholm is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1967. His 1971 film Den forsvundne fuldmægtig was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography:...
- Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen
- Grete FrischeGrete FrischeGrete Frische was a Danish actress, screenwriter and director. The daughter of a playwright, Frische is best known for her screenplays, especially the war drama Støt står den danske sømand which received the 1949 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film...
- Carsten Fromberg
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- Emanuel GregersEmanuel GregersEmanuel Gregers was a Danish actor, screenwriter and film director. Gregers made 36 films during a career which extended during four decades from the Danish golden age of silent film until 1949. Critics often dismissed his work as dependable yet uninspired, however many of his light-hearted...
- Jacob Grønlykke
- Lene Grønlykke
- Sven Grønlykke
- Niels Gråbøl
- Peer GuldbrandsenPeer GuldbrandsenPeer Guldbrandsen was a Danish screenwriter, actor, film director and producer. He wrote for 42 films between 1940 and 1976...
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- Martin Hagbjer
- Rumle HammerichRumle HammerichJens Peter Hammerich , better known as Rumle Hammerich , is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film company director. He is currently creative director at Nordisk Film....
- Jannik HastrupJannik HastrupJannik Hastrup is a Danish writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. He is considered "Denmark's grand master of animation", as he is particularly well-known for directing, animating and writing several animated films, occasionally with Flemming Quist Møller, including Benny's Bathtub,...
- Tom Hedegaard
- Trine Hedman
- Werner Hedman
- Astrid Henning-Jensen
- Bjarne Henning-JensenBjarne Henning-JensenBjarne Henning-Jensen was a Danish film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films between 1941 and 1974.He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Denmark...
- Finn HenriksenFinn HenriksenFinn Henriksen was a Danish film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films and wrote for 19 between 1960 and 1989.He was born in Randers, Denmark.-Filmography:* Jydekompagniet 3 * Jydekompagniet...
- Morten Henriksen
- Thomas S. Hermansen
- John Hilbard
- Annelise HovmandAnnelise HovmandAnnelise Hovmand is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed 12 films between 1955 and 1991...
- Allan HydeAllan HydeAllan Hyde is a Danish television, theatre and film actor. He was born and raised in Denmark to a Danish mother and English father from London . He is a singer on one track of the international versions of the soundtrack Camp Rock...
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- Johan JacobsenJohan JacobsenJohan Jacobsen was a Danish film director.Jacobsen was born in Aarhus in 1912. His parents were theatre manager Jacob Jørgen Jacobsen and actress Christel Holch . He made his first films at the film studio Palladium that also produced the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer...
- Jesper Jargil
- Anders Thomas JensenAnders Thomas JensenAnders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director.Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night...
- Tomas Villum JensenTomas Villum JensenTomas Villum Jensen is a Danish actor and film director. He has appeared in 29 films and television shows since 1991. He starred in The Boys from St. Petri, which was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....
- Torben Skjødt Jensen
- Hella JoofHella JoofHella Joof is a Danish actress and director. She was born to a Danish mother and a Gambian father.Joof directed En kort en lang , Oh Happy Day and Fidibus and is considered one of Denmark's more important directors...
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- Finn Karlsson
- Palle Kjærulff-SchmidtPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtPalle Kjærulff-Schmidt is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 32 films between 1957 and 1995. His 1964 film To was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival...
- Søren Kragh-JacobsenSøren Kragh-JacobsenSøren Kragh-Jacobsen is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques.-Early career:...
- Hans Kristensen
- Arnold Krøigaard
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- Birger LarsenBirger Larsen (director)Birger Larsen is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film for his film Dance of the Polar Bears . He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for his film Sweethearts? .-External links:...
- Viggo LarsenViggo LarsenViggo Larsen was a Danish film actor, director and producer. He appeared in 75 films between 1906 and 1942. He also directed 60 films between 1906 and 1921.He was born and died in Copenhagen, Denmark....
- Lau Lauritzen
- Jørgen LethJørgen LethJørgen Leth is a Danish poet and film director who is considered a leading figure in experimental documentary film making. Most notable are his epic documentary A Sunday in Hell and his surrealistic short film The Perfect Human...
- Lisbeth LynghøftLisbeth LynghøftLisbeth Lynghøft is a Danish director of stage and screen, perhaps best known for the feature erotic film Pink Prison ....
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- Ole Christian MadsenOle Christian MadsenOle Christian Madsen is a Danish film director and script writer, responsible for several movies and TV series that has achieved success in Denmark. Among the most successful projects are the movies Flammen og Citronen, Prague, Nordkraft and the TV series Rejseholdet and Edderkoppen...
- Nils MalmrosNils MalmrosNils Malmros , a Danish film director and screenwriter, is considered a leading auteur of realism in Danish cinema. Malmros is noted for his detailed focus on the common growing pains of adolescence and the loss of innocence, which he draws from his childhood experiences growing up in Århus, Denmark...
- Sven MethlingSven MethlingSven Johan Methling or Sven Methling Jr., , was a Danish film director and screenwriter. The son of actor and film director Svend Methling, Methling Jr. was best known for a series of light-hearted comedies. His 1959 comedy Vi er allesammen tossede received the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film...
- Svend MethlingSvend MethlingSvend Methling was a Danish actor and film director.He was a director for Dansk Skolescene 1924-1929, for Folkescenen 1925 and for Komediehuset 1929-1930.He also worked as a director at the Det Ny Teater 1926-1929....
- Ib MossinIb MossinIb Mossin was a Danish actor and director best known for his role as Peter in the Far Til Fire movies. He had his breakthrough as the apprentice Egon in Farlig Ungdom , a movie about the crime scene in Copenhagen among adolescents. He also had roles in 14 of the 18 Danish films based on novels by...
- Flemming Quist Møller
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- Alice O'FredericksAlice O'FredericksAlice O'Fredericks was a Danish actress, screen writer, and film director. She is best known for directing the series of Far til Fire comedies and the series of family dramas based on Morten Korch novels. Having written 38 produced screenplays and directed 72 feature films, O'Fredericks was one...
- Annette K. Olesen
- Lasse Spang OlsenLasse Spang OlsenLasse Spang Olsen is a Danish filmmaker.Apart from his many directorial and stunt coordinator credits, Olsen worked as a coordinator of extras on more than 300 hundred films over the course two decades.-External links:...
- Niels Arden OplevNiels Arden OplevNiels Arden Oplev is a writer-director from Denmark.-Biography:He directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the film based on Stieg Larsson's novel of the same title and won critical acclaim internationally. Oplev decided to not continue directing the second and third parts of the Millennium...
- Katrin OttarsdóttirKatrin OttarsdóttirKatrin Ottarsdóttir is a Faroese movie director.Katrin Ottarsdóttir went to Denmark in 1976 and is the first person from the Faroe Islands to study at the film school in Copenhagen...
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- Aage Rais
- Steen RasmussenSteen RasmussenSteen Rasmussen was born in Elsinore, Denmark, in 1955. He is an Artificial Life scientist who has published numerous reviews and reports in the Journal, Artificial Life. He coined the term, complex systems dogma, which alludes to the presupposition that simple lower-level elements can give rise to...
- Annelise ReenbergAnnelise ReenbergAnnelise Reenberg was a Danish film director and screenwriter. She directed 23 films between 1950 and 1971.She was born and died in Denmark.-Filmography:* Historien om Hjortholm * 24 timer...
- Anders Refn
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Jytte Rex
- Peter Ringgaard
- Lise Roos
- Ole Roos
- Kaspar RostrupKaspar RostrupKaspar Rostrup is a Danish film director. Two of his films won the Best Film prize at the Bodil Awards : Jeppe på bjerget and Waltzing Regitze . The latter was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-External links:...
- Carsten Rudolf
- Helle Ryslinge
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- Robert Saaskin
- Åke SandgrenÅke SandgrenÅke Sandgren is a Swedish-Danish film director and screenwriter. He has written and directed a number of films in a variety of genres, mostly in Denmark where he now lives.-Biography:...
- Lone ScherfigLone ScherfigLone Scherfig is a Danish film director. She graduated in 1984, and began her career as a director with "A Birthday Trip". She is part of the Dogme 95 film movement, which espouses a form of cinéma vérité She made her mark with the Dogme95-film, Italian for Beginners , a romantic comedy which...
- Martin SchmidtMartin Schmidt-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...
- George SchnéevoigtGeorge SchnéevoigtGeorge Schnéevoigt was a Danish film director, cinematographer, and actor of the 1930s and early 1940s....
- Peter Schrøder
- Kirsten Stenbæk
- Gunnar SommerfeldtGunnar SommerfeldtGunnar Sommerfeldt was a Danish actor and film maker.In 1919 he directed Saga Borgarættarinnar , the first feature film shot in Iceland. Sommerfeldt also wrote the script, based on Gunnar Gunnarsson's novel by that name...
- Lotte Svendsen
- Torben Anton Svendsen
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- Arne WeelArne WeelArne Weel was a Danish actor and film director. He appeared in 17 films between 1910 and 1967. He also directed films between 1935 and 1950.He was born in Århus, Denmark and died in Denmark.-Selected filmography:...
- Linda Wendel
- Brita Wielopolska
- Thomas Winding
- Hans Fabian Wullenweber
Sources
- The original version of this article was copied from this version of the article :da:Danske filminstruktører in the Danish-language Wikipedia.