Preben Philipsen
Preben Philipsen Constantin ( born January 18, 1910 in Copenhagen, † 21 September, 2005 Klampenborg ) was a Danish film producer.
Life
Philipsen was the son of the Danish film pioneer Constantin Philipsen, founder of the Rialto movie. On April 1, 1950 he founded, together with the German film Kaufmann Waldfried Barthel under registration no. 1944 in Frankfurt am Main, a film distributor, who was called to the common name of father and son Philipsen towards Constantin Film Distribution GmbH.
Due to his good contacts with the American film company United Artists, he enabled to bring it to the Constantin Film Distribution, United Artists films exclusively in the German movie theater. The first was in 1950 Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush.
Five years served as president of Constantin Philipsen. Having a foreign partner was no longer compulsory in Germany, retired in 1955 from Philipsen at Constantin. He turned again, which was founded by his father Rialto Film Preben Philipsen A / S to. With it, he produced several Scandinavian and German films and still wont built a strong relationship with Constantin Film Distribution.
In 1959, he acquired the rights to two novels by Edgar Wallace. On behalf of Constantin Film in Munich he produced The frog with the mask and for the prism - film distribution The red circle. These German -Danish productions, the era of the successful Edgar Wallace films began.
From Penelope Wallace, the daughter of the late writer, he bought exclusive rights to the entire Edgar Wallace novels. During the filming of The gang of terror he founded on August 18, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main, the Rialto Film Preben Philipsen film production and film distribution GmbH with a nominal capital of 20 000 DM manager were Philipsen and Franz Sulley.
On November 1, 1960, he appointed Horst Wendlandt to Head of Production of Constantin relapsed at Philipsen prism rental. When the prism rental 1961 his activity ceased, he made Wendlandt as successor to Horst Beck to the production manager of the Rialto movie. In the same year Wendlandt was partner and managing director in place of Sulley next Philipsen. 1962 the company headquarters was moved to West Berlin.
Opposite Wendlandt Philipsen occurred over the years more and more into the background. On 4 February 1976 published the gazette, Preben Philipsen that excreted in the company Rialto Film Preben Philipsen Berlin / West and that at the Rialto Film Preben Philipsen GmbH. & Co. KG Berlin / West is extinguished his power of attorney.