Bodil Udsen

Bodil Birgitte Udsen (born January 12, 1925 in Copenhagen ; † February 26, 2008 there ) was a Danish actress.

Career

After graduating from Rysensteen Gymnasium in Copenhagen in 1944 , Udsen was admitted to the drama school of the Royal Theater in the same year , but released after a year. She then worked as a letter censor for the British Army on the Rhine in Germany and after the war as an office worker. Since 1949 she has worked in revues , including at Dyrehavsbakken and ABC-Teatret . Since the mid-1950s she has been one of the main contributors to the Cirkusrevyen . She celebrated her breakthrough in serious theater in 1962 as Winnie in Beckett's Happy Days at Fiolteatret , with which she had 380 performances.

In addition to her theater career, Udsen has appeared in numerous films since the 1950s, mostly in comedies. She was best known as the pub owner Emma in the television series Oh, these tenants . In 1985, she was for her role in House of darkness as Best Actress by Robert excellent. She was in command of the Order of Dannebrog .

Filmography

• 1955: The Blinded (Blændværk)
• 1957: Mig og min family
• 1958: Styrmand Karlsen
• 1960: Kvindelist og kærlighed
• 1960: Partly because of love - Part 2 ( Poeten og Lillemor og Lotte )
• 1960: Eventyrrejsen
• 1960: Partly because of love - Part 3 ( Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør )
• 1961: Støv på hjernen
• 1961: Eventyr på Mallorca
• 1961: Flemming på kostskole
• 1962: Det støver stadig
• 1962: The brænder en ild
• 1963: Vi har det jo dejligt
• 1963: April
• 1963: Støv for alle pengene
• 1964: Selvmordsskolen
• 1964: Don Olsen in business
• 1965: Mor Bag rats
• 1966: Tre små piger
• 1967: Uncle Joakims hemmelighed
• 1967: Far laver sovsen
• 1968: Jeg elsker blåt
• 1968: Sonja (TV multi-part)
• 1969: Sjov i gaden
• 1969: Damernes ven
• 1970–1977: Oh, these tenants ( Huset på Christianshavn ; TV series)
• 1971: Ballade på Christianshavn
• 1971: Revolutions i vandkanten
• 1972: Lenin, din gavtyv
• 1972: Livsens ondskab (TV multi-part)
• 1972: Mor, jed is patient
• 1972: Manden på Svanegården
• 1975: Aladdin eller den forunderlige lamp (television multi-part)
• 1976: the korte summer
• 1978: Slægten
• 1979: Historien om en moder
• 1981: Matador (TV series; 2 episodes)
• 1982: Jenny (TV multi-part)
• 1984: House of Darkness (Min farmors hus)
• 1984: Samson & Sally ( Samson og Sally ; voice)
• 1987: Sådan er det bare (TV series; 2 episodes)
• 1987: Peter von Scholten
• 1988: Skattekortet (TV multi-part)
• 1988: Baby Doll
• 1992: Gøngehøvdingen (TV series; episode role)
• 1993: Det bli'r i families
• 1996: Bryggeren (TV series; 2 episodes)
• 1997: Barbara
• 2001: No fancy country air (Send mere slik)
• 2001: Mona's World (Monas Verden)
• 2001: Trækfugle (short film)
• 2002: Dina - My Story (Jeg er Dina)
• 2003: Nissernes ø (TV series; voice)
• 2008: Whom You Fear (Den du frygter)

Web links

• Bodil Udsen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bodil Udsen in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)
• Bodil Udsen at Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)