Nils Poppe

Nils Poppe ( born May 31, 1908 in Malmö Möllevången, † June 28, 2000 in Helsingborg) was a Swedish actor, director and theater director. He made primarily with its popular Swedish comedy in film and on stage a name.

Biography

His original name was Nils Einar Jonsson, which he had received from his foster parents and Amanda Anders Jönsson. The stage name " Poppe " gave him the Oscar Winge Hippodromtheater in Malmö, where he debuted in 1930. Early on, he recognized his natural talent for dance, acrobatics and comedy, a talent that he could really use under his long professional career. 1934 Nils Poppe came to the Folkets Hus Theatre in Stockholm, where he quickly became known and popular. Especially his Charlie Chaplin parody was very popular and earned him the title " the Swedish Chaplin " one. Similarities with Chaplin could not be overlooked, however, Poppe began to develop his own style. One of his great theater successes had Poppe in 1947 with the musical Lorden från Gränden (Original Title: Me and My Girl), which he performed over a thousand times in different settings and at different stages in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

Film career

Nils Poppe's film debut came in 1937 with a supporting role, then followed some film comedies and in 1940 Poppe was a leading comic actor of Sweden. 1948, the film character Fabian Bom was born. You should be Poppe's most popular film role for which he also wrote the manuscript. The film soldier Bom 1948 (where Bom a play on the Swedish word " bom" - Missing shot - is ) was a huge success and ran for 48 weeks in the Stockholm cinema. A total of seven so-called Bom - films were made, which were also popular in Germany, among them Sagittarius boom in distress.

The comedian Poppe participated in two Bergman films, The Seventh Seal 1957 as Jof the jugglers and the Devil Eye of 1960 as pastor. Here he successfully played serious roles, what they had not given him credit for.

The Fredriksdals Theatre

1966 Nils Poppe took the open-air theater Fredriksdalsteatern in Helsingborg. With operettas such as Charley's Aunt, The White Horse Inn and The Fiddler on the roof of the Fredriksdals Theatre has been a crowd puller quickly. Every summer all wanted to see the popular Nils Poppe, regardless of whether the sun was shining and it was raining. As a Swedish television so started to record the summer performances and they radiate in the winter, the audience rose even more. Now Poppe was a theater director, producer, director and actor. 1993, at the age of 85 years, he gave his farewell performance, then took his colleague Eva Rydberg the theater to continue it in the sense of Poppe.