Dirch Passer
Dirch Passer ( born May 18, 1926 in Copenhagen Østerbro, Denmark, † 3 September 1980 in Copenhagen) was a Danish actor and popular film comedian of the 50s to the 70s.
Life and work
Passer was in 1946 made his debut in the play " Seks kammerater " on the stage and settled in 1946 and 1947 at the Copenhagen Frederiksberg Theatre artistic form. He then went on tour in the Danish province. In 1949 he returned to Copenhagen, to comply with a commitment to the ABC theater. This stage he held until 1962, the loyalty. He quickly developed a great talent for comic substances boulevard comedy was at the theater but his favorite subject, Passer also appeared repeatedly in vaudeville revues such as the famous Cirkusrevyen på Bakken on. Together with the colleagues Kjeld Petersen he made in the years 1955 to 1958 a popular comedy duo.
As early as 1947 was the first time Dirch Passer front of the camera, several times he was also filmed guest appearances in Sweden. Especially in the 1950s and 60s he was one of the most popular film comedians of Scandinavia, " in often very plain knitted comedies embodied the sensuous and sometimes a little clumsy, simple-minded average Danes with intense facial expressions. " In 1974 he was appointed a Knight 1st Class of the Dannebrogordens.
Some great successes, he was able to land on the side of the comedian colleagues Ove Sprogøe in a number of productions of the production company Saga. Occasional trips to the character roles like in the movies " Gøngehøvdingen " and " Venus fra vesto " had far less success and flopped at the box office. Occasionally joined Dirch registration before the television camera; the German public, he is mainly remembered with a sketch in which he, as a partner Rudi Carrells Churning in 1979 played in the show a cigarette junkie who desperately tries to quit smoking.
On September 3, 1980, he collapsed during a revue at the Tivoli and died after several attempts to revive the same day at about 21.20 clock in the Copenhagen City Hospital of cardiac arrest. After his death he was buried in the graveyard of Dragør Kirke in Dragør, a small town near Copenhagen.
In Denmark, the film Dirch was presented on the life and career of Dirch Passer to the public in August 2011. The director of the movie by Martin Zandvliet and starring Nikolaj Lie of Dirch Passers played Kaas (son of actor Preben Kaas ), who for the Robert Award 2012 in the category Best Actor. It was also awarded this film the actor Lars Ranthe in the role of Kjeld Petersen with the Bodil for Best Supporting Actor.
Family
Passer was the brother of actresses Marchen Passer and Kirsten Passer. Overall, he was married twice, from 1950 to 1959 with the actress Sigrid Horne - Rasmussen and 1970-1976 with the illustrator and artist Hanne Bjerregaard Pedersen. From these two marriages he had one daughter, Dorte Passer and Josephine Passer. Then he had another relationship, so he lived for five years with the actor colleague Judy Gringer.