Alfred Lind
Søren Estrup Alfred Lind ( born March 27, 1879 in Elsinore, Denmark, † April 29, 1959 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish cinematographer, screenwriter and director of the silent film era.
Life
After training as a carpenter, he turned to the new medium of film. His first film he made in 1906, the same year he opened the first cinema in Reykjavík in Iceland. He was director of the Danish company Nordisk Film and Fotorama in Aarhus from 1910 until 1912. Lind was one of the most famous directors of early Scandinavian cinema, but he also filmed in Germany and Italy. With the advent of the talkies ended his career as a filmmaker and worked as a carpenter. He was from 1940 married to actress Gertrude Auguste Emmy Barras, nee Rude Nick (23 March 1884 -? ). He died at the age of 80 years and is on the Søndermark Kirkegård Frederiksberg buried.
He is believed to be the earliest surviving footage of Iceland in the year 1906 by which it is affiliated.