Olaf Fønss
Olaf Holger Axel Fønss ( born October 17, 1882 in Aarhus, Denmark, † November 3, 1949 in Copenhagen) was a Danish silent film actor.
Life
Olaf Fønss in 1899 to Copenhagen, where he held his theater debut in 1903 at the Dagmarteatret. In 1912, he ended his career in the theater and went to the movie. By 1915, he was with the film company Nordisk and entered into major Danish productions, as in the Gerhart -Hauptmann- film Atlantis (1913, August Blom ) and the early anti-war film Lay Down Your Arms! ( Ned med vaabnene, 1914, Holger -Madsen ).
Fønss went in 1916 to Berlin, where he was occupied by Otto Rippert with the lead role in the serial Homunculus. In the following year he turned back to Denmark in 1919 and realized anguish ( Samvittighedskvaler / Moderen ), a one-person film without intertitles. Under Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Fønss took over the lead role in the transition into the night (1920). He played until the end of his acting career in Germany, but got his last starring role in 1921 in Joe May's The Indian Tomb.
In the early 1930s he became involved with two films for the Danish Social Democrats. From 1933 to 1947 he was chairman of the Danish Federation of Actors and acted as a film censor. He wrote seven books about his experiences in the film.