Carl Ottosen

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Carl Ottosen (18 July 1918 – 8 January 1972) was a Danish actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in 70 films between 1947 and 1972. He was born and died in Denmark. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Ottosen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

18-07-1918

Birthday

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Total Films

Also known as (male)

Denmark

Place of Birth

18-07-1918

Birthday

Cancer

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Denmark

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

Creative career

actor

60 Works

producer

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director

20 Works

writer

14 Works

other

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Bedside Dentist

Thomas, a naive young dental student, faces a rather difficult challenge. His millionaire aunt, a bit of a sex nut, will give both him and his dental school millions if he can prove that he is sexually able and skillful. His schoolmates hear rumors of this trial, but understand the challenge to be for him to keep his celibacy.

6.0

Year:

1971

Gold for the Tough Guys of the Prairie

Comedic western, where the 4 guys this time have to help find a gold transport. They get help from the cunning girl Shannahoo.

5.3

Year:

1971

Svend, Knud og Valdemar

0.0

Year:

1970

Tough Guys of the Prairie

Wild West Danish comedy.

5.1

Year:

1970

The Key to Paradise

5.0

Year:

1970

Amour

This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her many lovers while her unsuspecting husband lurks nearby. The final part finds a count and countess engaging in extramarital affairs in France during the 1840s.

5.5

Year:

1970

Fun in the Streets

A gang transport drugs with a little girl inside her teddy bear.

6.4

Year:

1969

Along Came a Soldier

A soldier seeks justice against a group of men who murdered a prostitute.

4.5

Year:

1969

The Veterinarian's Adopted Children

The Veterinarian's Adopted Children is a 1968 Danish comedy film directed by Carl Ottosen and starring Dirch Passer.

6.5

Year:

1968

Friends at Arms: On a Bear Run

The German bear Fido from Münich is sweet, easygoing and nice, and just loves Danish soldiers. Thus, the bear marches together with the recruits and even wants to share their beds in this strange Danish comedy.

4.7

Year:

1968

I, a Woman Part II

Newly married to a sexually perverted German millionaire, Siv submits herself to endless degradation before discovering that her husband harbors a diabolical secret.

5.3

Year:

1968

Love Thy Neighbour

Love Thy Neighbour (Danish: Elsk... din næste!, German: Vergiß nicht deine Frau zu küssen ) is a 1967 Danish-German comedy film directed by Egil Kolstø and starring Walter Giller.

4.4

Year:

1967

Pretty-Arne and Rosa

5.5

Year:

1967

Det er ikke appelsiner - det er heste

6.7

Year:

1967

The Reluctant Sadist

A poor dandy embezzled large sums of money and buys the title Marquis De Sade to impress the upper class. The film premiered as "I am a Marquis."

5.3

Year:

1967

The Loose Tile

Sigfred dioecious is an acidic man. Teacher and can not really hate children. When he one day a tile in the head, change his behavior, however, significant. He is cheerful and have a huge appetite for life. Sigfred wife's first unhappy that he is so happy girl, but when she gets him made normal again, she will be disappointed. She wants her new husband back ...

5.5

Year:

1966

The Girl and the Viscount

Danish family film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Dirch Passer.

6.0

Year:

1966

Nu stiger den

4.0

Year:

1966

Hunger

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

7.4

Year:

1966

Relax Freddy

A Chinese diplomat is kidnapped from a conference in Genève and the world peace is at risk. The trail leads to a hiding place in Denmark and the Danish secret service brings in their best agent, agent Smith, who has been in a psychiatric hospital since his last assignment. To accompany Smith they once again turn to novelty and party tricks salesman Frede Hansen, because they need an unrecognizable man to infiltrate the crime syndicate behind the kidnapping.

6.2

Year:

1966

Dyden går amok

5.0

Year:

1966

It's Nifty in the Navy

It's Nifty in the Navy is a 1965 Danish comedy film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Dirch Passer.

6.1

Year:

1965

I brændingen

0.0

Year:

1965

Passer Babysitting Girls

Caretaker Alf Thomsen's very effective "alarm clock" comes once again in operation, and has again succeeded in getting him up to speed, despite their incessant discussions back and forth. Everything is peaceful and idyllic. Sleeping city housing block, with the famous staircase is to embark on a new day

5.6

Year:

1965

Don Olsen kommer til byen

I en lille provinsby residerer bankdirektør L.W. Jacobsen. Han er ikke særlig interesseret i sin kone, Elsebeth, men derimod i lærerinde og byrådsmedlem frk.Mortensen. Thorsen, byens manufakturhandler er medlem af samme byrådsgruppe som Jacobsen. Så kommer Don Olsen til byen. Olsen er ikke interesseret i det pænere borgerskab, men derimod i mennesker. Ved et tilfælde mødes Thorsen og Olsen og snart drikker de dus. Thorsen slæber ud på natten mælkemandens hest med hjem i lejligheden. Skandalen er en realitet. Thorsen vil flygte, men med Olsens hjælp bejler han i stedet til byens borgere og frk.Mortensen under mottoet "Gør gode tider bedre"

6.5

Year:

1964

Five men and Rosa

På et sygehus's 5 mandsstue - stue nummer 13 - ligger der 5 meget forskellige mænd, med meget forskellig baggrunde: Byretsdommer Winther, modedesigner Philip André , bankkasserer Madsen, den uforbederlige indbrudstyv Herluf "Smukke Arne" Jensen , og legationssekretær Konrad Konradsen. Legationssekretæren har begået en dumhed og er kommet i lommen på en pengeafpresseren Helmer Gamtofte . Han er i besiddelse af nogle kompromitterende billeder, som han opbevarer i en bankboks i den bank, hvor Madsen er ansat. Det mandfolkekammeratskab der opstår på stue 13, bliver drivkraften, der får byretsdommeren, til at foreslå "Smukke Arne" at hjælpe Konradsen og bryde ind i banken og tilegne billederne.

5.0

Year:

1964

Premiere i helvede

About an American's reaction to the Dane's way of chatting about each other. Behind their backs. A rumor begins to flourish. A serious one. About death. perhaps even murder.

7.0

Year:

1964

Tine

Danish melodrama about a housemaid struggling to find normalcy and love in the midst of war.

7.5

Year:

1964

Mord for åbent tæppe

Handlingen udspilles på et teater, hvor skuespilleren og teaterdirektøren Poul Bech (Preben Mahrt) bliver skudt ned af sin medspiller Eva Berthelsen (Susse Wold) midt under en premiere. Manuskriptet siger, at han skal skydes ned, men ikke at det skulle være med rigtige kugler! Alle på teatret har tilsynelandende en grund til at ønske ham død. Der skal dog endnu et drab til, inden det lykkes at finde morderen.

5.0

Year:

1964

A Day Without Lies

4.3

Year:

1963

Peters landlov

5.2

Year:

1963

Friends at Arms: Causing Mischief

5.0

Year:

1962

Den rige enke

Ellekjærs fremtid ligger Ann-Marie på sinde. Hun forsøge at få sin adoptivdatter, Grete, gift med Erik von der Rude, men Grete elsker forkarlen Jørgen. De beslutter sig for at gifte sig, hvorefter Annemarie slår hånden af Grete. Ann-Marie anden datter, Elin, er dog forelsket i Erik. Eriks fortid fra København indhenter ham dog, og Elin flytter ind hos sin søster. Derefter går filmen gennem en række forviklinger, før endelig Elin og Erik kan blive gift, og Ann-Marie forenes med sine døtre igen.

5.2

Year:

1962

Journey to the Seventh Planet

A space expedition to Uranus is menaced by a giant brain that can make illusions come true.

4.8

Year:

1962

Friends at Arms: On Autumn Exercises

5.4

Year:

1961

Sorte Shara

5.5

Year:

1961

Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør

Danish comedy film from 1961 directed by Erik Balling.

6.5

Year:

1961

Reptilicus

A portion of the tail of a prehistoric reptile is discovered in Denmark. It regenerates into the entire reptile, which proceeds to destroy buildings and property and generally make a nuisance of itself. It can fly, swim, and walk, and has impenetrable scales, which makes it difficult to kill.

3.6

Year:

1961

Forelsket i København

Forelsket i København is a 1960 Danish romance film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Siw Malmkvist.

6.4

Year:

1960

Friends at Arms: Operation Camel

As part of the U.N. patrol in Gaza, A group of Danish soldiers run into a series of misadventures.

4.8

Year:

1960

Kamikaze

A documentary about the kamikaze, the brave pilots who gave their lives for their beloved country.

7.0

Year:

1960

Faith, Hope and Witchcraft

In the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Troldø lives a single farming family. The grandmother Gunhild is the only woman on the island and her son Enok is unable to find a wife. Gunhild's advanced age causes her to worry for the future of the family. So she initiates a plan to get Enok married, a plan that is put into action when the young Eva becomes stranded on the island. But the community must be shaken by several dramatic events before Gunhild can breathe a sigh of relief.

6.0

Year:

1960

Frihedens pris

4.0

Year:

1960

Vi er allesammen tossede

After a gruesome meeting with the tax authorities Alex Alexander takes a drive in the countryside to calm down. While driving, he accidentally runs into an elephant from a circus. When he is stopped by the police and tells them about the elephant they think he is crazy. He is committed to an asylum by the very authorities his taxes are funding. The doctor tries to convince him that the elephants were not really there, but he gets more help from manic fellow patient Knudsen who makes him realize that everybody in the world is crazy in some way.

6.1

Year:

1959

Friends at Arms: Marching Out

A military comedy about disobedient and playful recruits.

4.1

Year:

1959

Fellowship of the Frog

Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. Murder, kidnapping and seduction ensue.

6.4

Year:

1959

Helle for Helene

5.5

Year:

1959

Friends at Arms

Every year, thousands of young men are summoned to undergo an education where completely different demands are made than in civilian life. The soldiers must be in perfect physical form and they must learn to deal with modern weapons.

4.2

Year:

1958

Sønnen fra Amerika

Niels Pind er en drukkenbolt der bliver udnyttet af nogle af byens beboere. Dette får en ende, da hans søn, Jens kommer tilbage fra Amerika med en masse penge. Jens køber det lokale gods og begynder at udvinde grus fra jorden. Han får hurtigt et dårligt omdømme i området fordi han kun tænker på penge. Niels Pind slår hånden af sin søn. Jens ændres dog, efterhånden som han bliver mere og mere forelsket i Ingrid.

6.2

Year:

1957

Jeg elsker dig

8.0

Year:

1957

Vores lille by

Vores lille by er en ganske almindelig samling af huse et tilfældigt sted i Danmark beboet af ganske almindelige mennesker. Ingenting af betydning er sket indenfor de sidste 100 år eller deromkring, byen sover sin Tornerosesøvn med ansigtet vendt mod fjorden og ryggen mod det lave land, da alle tiders uvejr trækker ubemærket hen over dem, såsom tordenbyger og sommerskyer højt, højt oppe. Til denne by ankommer en dag en landstryger som er ret ualmindelig, Laust (Carl Ottosen) kalder han sig han har ikke ligefrem tænkt sig at blive hængende i byen, men er kun tilfældigt drevet denne her vej under sin lange søgen efter et sted og nogle mennesker han kan knytte sin skæbne til.

7.0

Year:

1954

I kongens klæ'r

Kjeld Petersen plays a merchant who has stolen his clothes when he is out take a dip in the Sound. He stopped by the police, and they find a call to military service in his pocket, after further complications lands him at the barracks, where he came under the loving care of 66 (Dirch compatible) and 65 (Ove Sprogø). So the stage is set for lots of fun and games, in the right old style.

6.6

Year:

1954

Karen, Maren og Mette

9.0

Year:

1954

A Sailor goes ashore

Frederik Larsen (Lau Lauritzen Jr.), a sailor and has sailed since he was 15. Now he has lost the desire for a sailor life, especially after his best friend Bob was lost in a hurricane. When his ship docks at Copenhagen, shortly before Christmas, he signs off with all his hire on the pocket. He seeks accommodations in sailor home Bertel, located on the nice side of Nyhavn. Here he can stay and eat for very little money. He delivers his kitbag to the concierge Henrik (Mogens Hermansen) before he was lured by accordion music and the laughter that comes to him from the "naughty" side of Nyhavn. In the Cafe "The black sails", he accidently joins Inger (Lisbeth Movin) at the same table, whose profession is not in the phone book, although it is the world's oldest. Inger is in the company of an unemployed stoker Vladimir W. Olsen (Poul Reichhardt) that is full of scams, and has a good mood.

5.3

Year:

1954

Kongeligt besøg

6.0

Year:

1954

Kriminalsagen Tove Andersen

7.0

Year:

1953

Skatteøens hemmelighed

5.0

Year:

1953

Vejrhanen

6.3

Year:

1952

Behind the red gates

Behind the red gates lies Dyrehaven with the green beeches and the famous zoo hill - the motley world of clowns. Professor Labardi is behind the popular singer pavilion, where his young daughter, Gulnare, performs. After a rainy summer, there is an economic low tide on Bakken, and the family is tempted to seek help from Gulnare's enterprising suitor, Carlo Petersen. But Professor Labardi carries a secret: the clown family has family ties to the fine legal world outside the gates. There is conflict, money transactions, love, hypocrisy and villainous streaks when the fine world and the hill folk meet. Behind the Red Gates is a terrific folk comedy that takes us behind the attractions at the traditional amusement park in Klampenborg.

7.2

Year:

1951

Those Damned Kids

Directed by Danish filmmakers Bjarne and Astrid Henning-Jensen, THOSE BLASTED KIDS tells a story of a group of back-alley urchins that is considered Denmark’s first true children’s film.

6.6

Year:

1947