Carl Theodor Dreyer

Personal Info

Known For Directing

Known Credits 47

Gender Male

Birthday February 3, 1889

Day of Death March 20, 1968 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Copenhagen, Denmark

Also Known As

  • Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Carl T. Dreyer
  • Carl Th. Dreyer
  • Carl-Th. Dreyer
  • Carl Dreyer
  • 칼 테오도르 드레이어
  • 卡尔·西奥多·德莱叶

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Biography

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.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Directing

1964
1955
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1948
1947
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1943
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1932
1928
1926
1925
1924
1922
1922
1920
1920
1919

Writing

1989
1964
1955
1954
1950
1949
1948
1947
1947
1947
1946
1945
1943
1942
1932
1928
1926
1925
1924
1922
1922
1920
1920
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1919
1918
1917
1916
1916
1915
1914
1913
1913

Acting

2022
2020
2015
1995
1994
1982
1968
1966
1965
1965
1909

Production

1955
1947
1943
1932

Editing

1945
1928
1925

Art

1925
1919

Crew

1972
1928

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