Arthur Jensen
Acting
Born 1897-11-09
Died 1981-11-28
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Arthur Jensen was originally trained as a tailor and later educated at the Royal Theatre's student school 1920-23 and had an extensive theatre career. He experienced his heyday on television after passing the age of 70. He never achieved the same heights in film as he did in television, with roles such as caretaker Meyer in Huset på Christianshavn (1970-77) and clerk Schwan from Damernes Magasin in Matador (1978-81). With the exception of when he reprised the character of caretaker Meyer in Erik Balling's film version of the TV series, Ballade på Christianshavn (1971). It was his best film performance. He portrayed the two TV series characters shamelessly on his distinctive type: the comically aunty as caretaker Meyer and the sly and vain as clerk Schwan. What could have ended up as a gay caricature becomes human portraits in the garb of folk comedy, not least thanks to Arthur Jensen's humor, which at once shows solidarity and irony with the characters.
It took a long time for Arthur Jensen to discovery who he was as an actor. After four silent film supporting roles at Fy&Bi, he formed a comedic duo with Ib Schønberg in several of Alice O'Fredericks' and Lau Lauritzen's energetic prank farces in the 1930s, but the fun is sporadic, and the inventions are often self-satisfied and infantile. His recurring role as a whiny spanking boy for the healthy guys in these films, including director Lauritzen himself, are particularly unfunny and almost unpleasant.
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Filmography
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Acting
49 credits
The House at Christianshavn
Matador
The Song of the Red Ruby
Mifune
Kristinus Bergman
Fætrene på Torndal
Bedroom Mazurka
The Olsen Gang
Old Maids
It Happened in Copenhagen
Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
Don Olsen kommer til byen
I kongens klæ'r
Livsens ondskab
Bedside Dentist
Jumpin' at the Bedside
Bedside Romance
Incognito
The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
Mord for åbent tæppe
The Tove Andersen Criminal Case
The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
Girls at Sea
The Moelleby affair
Barken Margrethe
Snushanerne
Holidays in jail
Me and My Kid Brother
Five men and Rosa
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Bedside Highway
Nyhavns glade gutter
The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
The Man from Swan Farm
A Day at the Beach
Hvad med os?
Ta' lidt solskin
Jensen længe leve!
Nøddebo præstegård
Een blandt mange
Kidnapped
Boy of Two Worlds
The Loose Tile
Our Home Is Our Castle
Familien Olsen
Panserbasse
Bag Københavns Kulisser
Jeppe på Bjerget
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Vandalism
The Girl and the Press Photographer
Min søn Peter
Pretty-Arne and Rosa
København, Kalundborg og -?
Strike First Freddy
Fem raske piger
Crazy Paradise
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