José Bohr

José Bohr (born Yopes Bohr Elzer on September 3, 1901 in Bonn ; † May 29, 1994 in Oslo ) was a singer , composer , actor and director .

Bohr came to Constantinople with his family in the first year of his life, where his father, who was a veterinarian, got a job in the private palace zoo of Sultan Abdülhamid II . In 1904 the family moved to Punta Arenas , where Bohr lived until 1921, worked as a silent film pianist and wrote his first compositions, including the hymn Punta Arenes . In 1921 he came to Buenos Aires. There he appeared as a singer on Radio Cultura , was involved in founding the station Radio Brusa and made his debut in 1924 at the Teatro Porteño as a singer in the revue De Puente Alsina a Montmartre by Ivo Pelay , Bayón Herrera and Manuel Romero . During this time in Buenos Aires he composed over two hundred titles, including Y tenía un lunar , Cascabelito and Pero hay una melena .

In 1925 he made his US debut at the Paramount Theater in New York in the play Gaucho , a short time later he had a leading role in Sombras de gloria , the first Spanish-language Hollywood film. Bohr lived in Mexico from 1932. There he was friends with artists such as Luis Buñuel , Cantinflas and Jorge Negrete and, as one of the pioneers of Mexican cinema, made more than thirty feature films, including a film about the life of Franz Liszt , for which Claudio Arrau recorded the score.

In 1940 he returned to Chile and became General Director of Chile Films . With this he produced sixteen other feature films, for which he composed all the film music. In addition, he continued to appear as a singer on radio and television. His hometown of Punta Arenas made him an honorary citizen in 1976, and the Chilean government awarded him the Order of Al Merit Bernardo O'Higgins . In 1980, on the 50th anniversary of the film's premiere, James M. Roberts , Executive Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , awarded it a Lifetime Achievement Oscar . Bohr lived in Denmark from 1980 with his sons Daniel and Eduardo Bohr .

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SURNAME	Bohr, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bohr Elzer, Yopes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German singer, composer, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn
DATE OF DEATH	May 29, 1994
Place of death	Oslo