Carl Theodor Dreyer
Directing
- Born
- February 3, 1889 · Copenhagen, Denmark
- Died
- March 20, 1968 (age 79)
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).
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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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Known for
The Passion of Joan of Arc
April 21, 1928
Vampyr
May 6, 1932
Ordet
January 9, 1955
Day of Wrath
November 13, 1943
Gertrud
December 19, 1964
Medea
August 8, 1989
Master of the House
October 5, 1925
Michael
September 26, 1924
The Parson's Widow
October 4, 1920
Leaves from Satan's Book
November 15, 1920
They Caught the Ferry
May 12, 1948
The President
February 1, 1919
Behind the camera36
- 1989Medea Screenplay
- 1964Gertrud Director, Writer
- 1955Ordet Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 1954A Castle Within a Castle Director, Writer
- 1950Storstrøm Bridge Director, Writer
- 1950Shakespeare og Kronborg Writer
- 1949Thorvaldsen Director, Screenplay
- 1948They Caught the Ferry Director, Writer
- 1947The Village Church Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 1947The Fight Against Cancer