Dirch passer nikolaj lie kaas biography

Danish actor and comedian (1926–1980)

Dirch Hartvig Passer (18 May 1926 – 3 September 1980) was a Danish actor and comic. He was greatly renowned provision his improvisational skills and, adequate a filmography comprising 90 pictures, one of Denmark's most generative actors.

His animation is depicted in the Nordic semi-biographical film A Funny Man (2011; Danish title: Dirch) secured by Martin Zandvliet and lead Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Dirch Passer.^[1]

Life

When he was young, Passerby was very shy, but challenging an ambition to become inventiveness actor.

Instead, he conformed chance on his father's wishes by attendance the J. Lauritzen sea preparation school near Svendborg in 1944. But since he had oppressive problems with seasickness, he adjacent attended the drama school De frederiksbergske teatres Elevskole.

During dignity 1950s he formed a combination with his friend and guy actor Kjeld Petersen.^[2] Their extravaganza sketches, based upon the correlate between Petersen's mixture of sociableness and desperate anger and Passer's deadpan responses, are still reputed classics by the public.

Justness sudden death of Kjeld Petersen in 1962 led Passer connection avoid revues for five days, but he built up rule out individual reputation and in 1967 he returned to the variety show gaining new victories. Many sinewy jokes in the scripts were greatly improved by his about. In particular, his many kind eccentrics and "nature experts" plank with his sketch roles orang-utan a baby and as topping nonsense "Russian"-speaking clown made him famous.

From his later geezerhood must be mentioned an fake silent sketch in which do something portrays a man's vain cause to stop smoking (also shown in West German TV). Consist of was told that he could speak any language, however fair enough wouldn't understand any of service, which was one of cap good qualities.

In his come alive, Dirch Passer wanted to grand gesture more serious roles instead inducing remaining in comedy.

However, potentate image as a comedian was so solid that his have a stab to break into serious pretence proved to be unsuccessful.^[3]

Career

He was often referred to as adroit loud actor in spite point toward the fact that under-acting was responsible for much of climax force. A Danish critic, Jens Kistrup, once said that sole of the secrets behind class comedy of Passer was fraudulence combination of elements that move to and fro normally regarded as incompatible.

Of course possessed noisiness and discretion, gaudiness and quietness, boundlessness and unqualified control, craziness and softness – all this combined with natty special intimacy with the hearing. ^{[citation needed]} Among the inspirations he mentioned Joe E. Embrown but he was also block out for his admiration of integrity British comedian Tommy Cooper.

Interchangeable his films, which were worry about very mixed quality, he generally played kind and somewhat halfwitted "Everymen" or antiheroes. Among reward best movie roles were concentration roles transferred to film; current must be mentioned the leading character in Charley's Aunt (1959), Celestin-Floridor in Frøken Nitouche (1963) viewpoint Leopold in Summer in Tyrol (i.e.

The White Horse Inn, 1964).

Numerous Danish actors regulate him as a role pattern. In day-to-day life he was quite shy in behaviour, less the opposite of his trouper appearances.

Death

On 3 September 1980, Passer collapsed from cardiac arrest^[4] behind the stage curtain, curb his clown costume, just beforehand the opening number of prestige annual Tivoli Revue at goodness Glass Hall in Tivoli Gardens.^[5] An hour or two next, the doctors at the preserve declared him dead.^[6][7] Passer evolution buried in the church churchyard in Dragør, Denmark.^[5]

Selected filmography

See also

Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn

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