Olaf Fjord

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Olaf Fjord , born in Ämilian Maximilian Pouch , (born August 3, 1897 in Graz , other sources speak of 1895 , † April 19, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor , film director and film producer .

Life

He came to Bosnia-Herzegovina with his parents at the age of three and grew up there in a Benedictine monastery . During the First World War he served temporarily in the military.

During the war he received his singing training in Vienna and completed a business apprenticeship. In the winter of 1917/18 he was discovered for the film by the Danish director Einar Zangenberg .

He took on the stage name Olaf Fjord and has appeared as an actor in numerous Austrian, French, Czech and American silent and sound film productions. Among other things, he embodied the Bavarian King Ludwig II in the biography of Ludwig II in 1921. In his vita he repeatedly referred to himself as a Norwegian.

As a producer, among other things, he made an early version of the repeatedly adapted material Ferien vom Ich (1934) and the film adaptation of Knut Hamsun's novella Pan (1937), which he also directed, in National Socialist Germany. His attempt to film the novel Gösta Berling failed in 1938. In January 1939 he emigrated to the USA, where he lived for a while.

His half-brother was the actor Oskar Pouché. They stood together in front of the camera in "Two People" in 1923. Actor Victor Varconi was Fjord's cousin.

Filmography (as an actor)

  • 1920: The Duke of Reichstadt
  • 1920: The Count of Imola (also production)
  • 1920: Paulchen, the million dollar baby (also direction and production)
  • 1920: The pendulum clock (also production)
  • 1921: Ludwig II.
  • 1922: Napoleon in Schönbrunn
  • 1922: Monna Vanna
  • 1923: The Lion of Venice
  • 1924: The man at midnight
  • 1924: two people
  • 1924: The stolen professor
  • 1924: The most beautiful woman in the world
  • 1924: The way to God
  • 1925: A life artist
  • 1925: women who are not allowed to love
  • 1925: luxury female
  • 1925: The man who sells himself
  • 1925: Götz von Berlichingen named with the iron hand
  • 1926: I had a comrade
  • 1927: Madonna in the sleeping car ( La madone des sleepings )
  • 1927: Napoleon (as Horatio Nelson)
  • 1928: Le désir
  • 1928: Mon coeur au ralenti
  • 1929: The Three's Confession
  • 1929: Comradeship marriage ( Kamarádské manzelství )
  • 1929: Erotik (Erotikon)
  • 1929: Circumstantial evidence
  • 1930: Dzungle velkomesta
  • 1930: Tarakanova, the false daughter of the Tsar (Tarakanova)
  • 1931: 1914, the last days before the world fire
  • 1931: Do you know the country
  • 1932: Cavaliers from Kurfürstendamm
  • 1934: Vacation from the Self (production only)
  • 1935: Everything about a woman
  • 1937: Pan. The fate of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn (only direction and production)

Single receipts

  1. ↑ IMDb and Kay Less: The large personal encyclopedia of film name 1897, filmportal.de and cyranos.ch 1895.
  2. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 10.
  3. ↑ Source: Die Filmwoche, No. 41, year 1926, p. 974.
  4. ↑ Source: Die Filmwoche, No. 48, year 1925, p. 1140.

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personal data
SURNAME Fjord, Olaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pouch, Ämilian Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1945
Place of death Vienna