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Carl Theodor Dreyer

Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born February 3, 1889Died March 20, 1968 (79 years)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director.

He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema. His best known films include The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), and Gertrud (1964).

Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Scanian maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, and he was put up for adoption by his birth father, Jens Christian Torp, a married Danish farmer living in Sweden who was his mother's employer. He spent the first two years of his life in orphanages until his adoption by a typographer named Carl Theodor Dreyer, and his wife, Inger Marie (née Olsen). He was named after his adoptive father, but in accordance with Danish practice, there is no "Senior" or "Junior" added to their names to distinguish them from each other.

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Vampyr
  • Day of Wrath
Known For
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Ordet
  • Vampyr
  • Day of Wrath
  • Gertrud
  • Medea
  • Master of the House
  • Michael
  • The Parson's Widow
  • Leaves From Satan's Book
  • They Caught the Ferry
  • The President
  • The Bride of Glomdal
  • Die Gezeichneten
  • Once Upon a Time

Filmography

1988
Medea · as Screenplay
1964
1955
Ordet · as Screenplay
1949
Thorvaldsen · as Screenplay
1948
1945
1943
Day of Wrath · as Screenplay
1932
Vampyr · as Screenplay
1928
1926
1925
1922
1922
1920
1919
The President · as Screenplay
1916
1912

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