Viggo Larsen
Viggo Larsen (born August 14, 1880 in Copenhagen , Denmark ; † January 6, 1957 there ) was a Danish film actor , director and producer . He is one of the silent film pioneers from the very beginning.
Film career
Larsen, who was initially in the military, then began to work in a movie theater operated by Ole Olsen . After Olsen founded Nordisk Filmgesellschaft in 1906, Viggo Larsen was able to gain a foothold as an actor, screenwriter and director in the early years of the 20th century. Between 1906 and 1909 he made 29 films in Denmark. The most famous examples of this early creative phase are Löwenjagd in Elleore (1907) and the five-part Sherlock Holmes series , which was released between 1910 and 1911. Larsen shot the lion hunt on the small Danish island of Elleore and in the Copenhagen Zoo . Not least because of the unusual but attractive use of exotic animals for the audience, the work became a great international success.
Larsen left Denmark in 1910 to pursue his career with Universum Film in Germany. Due to the success of the Sherlock Holmes series, he produced and shot other films about the English detectives. In 1910 he discovered the theater actress Wanda Treumann at the Berlin Lustspielhaus . In the following years he also made films with her and founded the production company Treumann Larsen Film GmbH in 1912 . He stayed in Germany until after the end of World War II and did not return to Denmark until 1945. He had in 1942 directed his last film Gerhard Lamprecht shot ( diesel ).
Filmography (selection)
- 1906: To børn på Landevejen
- 1906: The white slave
- 1907: The lion hunt (LøvejAGEN / LøvejAGEN på Elleore)
- 1907: The Lighter (film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen 's fairy tale of the same name )
- 1907: The Lady of the Camellias (adaptation of Alexandre Dumas ' novel of the same name )
- 1910: Atoned for (director, actor)
- 1910: thirst for love
- 1910: His only good (director, actor)
- 1911: Converted
- 1911: The white slave, part 3
- 1911: The horse thief
- 1911: The inventor's bride
- 1911: The Chinese man's mistress
- 1911: The powder mill
- 1911: Madame Potiphar (Director, Actor)
- 1911: Zapfenstreich (director, actor)
- 1912: Ariadne (director, actor)
- 1912: The Black Cat (2 parts)
- 1912: The Oath of Stephan Huller 1st part (direction, book, actor) (Based on the novel by Felix Hollaender )
- 1912: The Oath of Stephan Huller 2nd part (direction, book, actor)
- 1913: The marsh flower
- 1916: Vampirette
- 1917: Los vom Manne!
- 1917: Frank Hansen's luck (director, actor)
- 1917: The night riddle
- 1917: The victim of Yella Rogesius
- 1917: The divorced
- 1918: Rotterdam-Amsterdam
- 1918: His last affair
- 1919: The witch's song
- 1924: Orient - The daughter of the desert
- 1932: The eleven Schill officers
- 1937: Togger
- 1938: Holm's murderous matter
- 1939: The Beloved
- 1941: Clarissa
- 1942: GPU
- 1942: diesel
As Sherlock Holmes
- 1908: Raffles escapes from prison
- 1908: Sherlock Holmes
- 1909: The gray lady
- 1910: Arsene Lupine versus Sherlock Holmes (director, actor)
- 1910: The singer's diamonds
- 1910: Five hundred and nineteen cab
- 1910: The old secretary, published August 20, 1910
- 1910: The Blue Diamond, published September 17, 1910
- 1910: The False Rembrandts, published October 7, 1910
- 1910: The Escape, published December 24, 1910
- 1911: Arsene Lupin's End, published March 4, 1911
- 1911: The legacy of Bloomrod
Web links
- Viggo Larsen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Viggo Larsen In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Larsen, Viggo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Larsen, Jens Viggo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish actor, screenwriter and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1957 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |