Johannes Meyer
Biography
Handsome smart tall blonde Danish performer Johannes Meyer born in 1884. After graduating grom Gymnasium, Mayer applied twice to the Royal Theatre School and was twice rejected. He made his stage debut at the Dagmarteatret in Copenhagen in 1905 and went on to perform at nearly every theatre in Copenhagen. He appeared in more than 100 movies, making his first film playing the role of Erneste des Tressailles in Viggo Larsen's 'Revolutionsbryllup' at the Nordist Film Co in 1909, His most memorable role as Viktor Frandsen in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 'Master of the House' at the Palladium Film Co in 1925. He was mostly seen in character or supporting roles in many talkies from 1933 until his last film appearance playing the role of Bilvis in Gabriel Axel's 'Hagbard and Signe' in 1967. He was also active on radio and in T.V. dramas and was stage director of the Fonixteatret and Norrebros Theatre before he was hired by the Royal Theatre in 1941. Died in Denmark in 1972 age 88.
Known For
Acting
1920
asDon Fernandez (second sequence)
1951
asProkurist Nielsen
1950
asClaus Munk
1913
asWerner
1958
asKaptajn Vilhelm Hammer
1952
asVicevært Johansen
1951
asZeus
1950
as
1941
asKroejer Bartholdi
1953
asKlemmesen
1951
asProkuristen
1952
asKesse
1935
asBlikkenslager Mikkelsen
1960
asRektor Halling
1952
asSøren Torpegaard
1925
asViktor Frandsen
1961
asLæge A.H. Bonnesen
1938
asKunstprofessor Abel
1933
asDirektør Johan Nordborg
1958
asProfessor Ferdinand Schrøder
1963
asAugustin
1955
asHøjesteretssagfører Hans Ovesen
1952
asTheodor Nielsen
1914
as
1951
asKommandanten
1962
as
1942
asOrganisten 'Bessefar'
1937
asDirektør A. Schram
1954
asVicevært Julius Jensen
1950
asKøbmand Hans Offor
1941
asObersten
1953
asRedaktøren
1964
asHr. Bølling
1944
asFuglesang
1943
asHerbert Reimer
1917
as
1951
asGodsejer Bjerre
1964
asDr. Joachim Lindberg
1934
asGeneraldirektør
1938
asFabrikant Schmidt
1951
asArkitektens onkel, Pastor Mikael Rolff
1962
as
1952
asVilhelm Stone (godsejer)
1953
asHerskabstjener Blackhøj
1950
as
1944
asJens Steen, Manufakturhandler
1955
asRedaktøren på Sallinghavn Amtsavis
1933
as
1942
asFrederik Hagen
1944
as
1947
asFrederik Christensen
1940
as
1954
asOrganist Sørensen
1963
asZimmermann
1937
asHerkules' far
1934
asRedaktør Johannes Halling
1967
asBilvis
1959
as
1935
as
1944
as
1953
as
1939
as
1943
as
1949
asNiels Nielsen
1936
as
1945
as
1954
as
1947
as
1948
as
1953
as
1939
as
1934
as
1952
asGulbæk, antikvar
1940
asTutein
1934
asPræsident for Papegøjesamfundet
1939
asProfessor Dreyer, kunstmaler
1941
asValdemar Nielsen
1940
asFyrst Ivar Rose
1961
asOverpræsident
1952
asGårdejer Lauritz
1944
asWalter S. Nielson, impresario
1947
asSøren Hvass - Storbonde
1951
asSørens morfar
1941
asTheodor Woller, godsejer
1943
asMagdas far
1948
as
1948
asJonas Olsen
1943
asFerdinand Piper, teaterdirektør
1922
asRylowitsch
1937
asHr. Justesen
1917
asWilton, prokurist
1914
asOfficer
1912
asProduction
Crew
1955
asDirecting
1924
as
1933
as
1932
as
1929
as1951
as1931
as
1923
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