Viggo Larsen
Viggo Larsen ( born August 14, 1880 in Copenhagen, Denmark, † January 6, 1957 ) was a Danish film actor, director, and producer. He is one of the silent film pioneers of the first hour.
Film career
Larsen, who was first in the military, began working after a run by Ole Olsen movie playhouse. After the founding of the Nordisk Film Company by Olsen in 1906 Viggo Larsen could hold as an actor, screenwriter and director foot already in the first years of the 20th century. He turned in the years 1906-1909 29 films in Denmark. The most famous example of this early creative phase are lions hunting in Elleore (1907 ) and the five-part Sherlock Holmes series, which was released in 1910-1911. The recordings of lions hunted Larsen on the small Danish island Elleore and the Zoological Gardens Copenhagen. Not least because of the public still unfamiliar but attractive the use of exotic animals was a huge international success of the work.
In 1910, Larsen left Denmark to continue his career at Universum Film in Germany. Due to the success of the Sherlock Holmes series produced and he turned more films about the English detectives. In 1910, he discovered the theater actress Wanda Treumann at Berlin Lustspielhaus. In the following years he turned to her and films and in 1912 he founded the production company Treumann Larsen Film GmbH. He remained in Germany until after the end of World War II and returned only in 1945 returned to Denmark. He had in 1942 under the direction of Gerhard Lamprecht rotated (Diesel) His last film.