Olaf Fjord

Olaf Fjord, a native Aemilian 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 with his parents at the age of three years after Bosnia - Herzegovina, where he grew up in a Benedictine monastery. During the First World War, he served temporarily in the military.

During the war he settled in Vienna train vocally and completed a commercial apprenticeship. In the winter of 1917/18 he was discovered by the Danish director Einar Zangenberg for the film.

He took the stage name Olaf Fjord and was seen as an actor in numerous Austrian, French, Czech and American silent and sound film productions. Among other things, he played in 1921 in the biography of Ludwig II of Bavaria King Ludwig II in his Vita he referred to himself repeatedly as Norwegians.

As a producer, he joined among others by an early version of the multi -adapted material from holiday I (1934 ) and the film adaptation of Knut Hamsun novel Pan ( 1937), which he directed also, in Nazi Germany produced. His attempt to film the novel Gösta Berling, failed in 1938. In January 1939, he emigrated to the USA where he lived for a time.

Filmography ( as actor)

Single Documents

Weblink

• Olaf Fjord at filmportal.de
• Olaf Fjord at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography with photo
• Pictures of Olaf Fjord In: Virtual History

• Film Director
• Film producer
• Actor
• Silent film actresses
• Artist (Vienna)
• Emigrant from the German Empire at the time of National Socialism
• Austrian
• Born 1897
• Died in 1945
• Man
• Pseudonym