Preben Kaas

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Preben Kaas (30 March 1930 – 27 March 1981) was a Danish comedian, actor, script writer and film director. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1943 and 1980. He received the 1970 Bodil for best actor in a supporting role for his role in The Olsen Gang in a Fix. He was born in Aalborg and died in Copenhagen. Preben Kaas was married to Bodil Nymark Nielsen, Ulla Kaas Larsen, Anne Marie Lie and Lisbet Dahl. He is the father of actor and bandleader Jeppe Kaas and actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas.

30-03-1930

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Total Films

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Aalborg, Denmark

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30-03-1930

Birthday

Aries

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Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Aalborg, Denmark

Place of Birth

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actor

53 Works

producer

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director

11 Works

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Mændenes Forbund

0.0

Year:

1981

That's me too

Stine is eighteen and has finished school. Her parents have are divorced, and the father has a new wife. Stine is not so anxious finding a regular job, She would like to be an actor.

10.0

Year:

1980

Holidays in jail

Fængslende feriedage is a 1978 Danish family film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Jørgen Ryg. It was also Dirch Passer's final film.

5.8

Year:

1978

Mirror, Mirror

Heavily influenced by the French stage sensation La Cage Aux Folles (which was filmed the very same year) a drag-queen comedy about a group of homosexuals sharing an apartment with a naive but straight country boy did not live up to expectations. The lead characters lead boring lives during the day and, as depicted here, downright pathetic existences at night, all decked out in peacock plumes and high heels and with nowhere to go.

10.0

Year:

1978

Firmaskovturen

5.8

Year:

1978

Going for Broke

Three out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station.

6.4

Year:

1977

The Ghost Train

Spøgelsestoget (English title: The ghost train) is a 1976 Danish family film directed by Bent Christensen. It is based on the 1923 play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley.

6.4

Year:

1976

Julefrokosten

About the traditional celebration at Christmas.

5.7

Year:

1976

Girls at Arms

A comedy about girls joining the army in Denmark. Marianne joins to keep up a long family tradition as her brother won't. Both her brother and her boyfriend find her decision difficult to accept.

5.6

Year:

1975

Me, Too, in the Mafia

Mafiaen, det er osse mig er en dansk komediefilm fra 1974 og en fortsættelse af Mig og Mafiaen. Filmen har manuskript af Lise Nørgaard og er instrueret af Henning Ørnbak.

5.5

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1974

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok

When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.

6.9

Year:

1973

Slap af

0.0

Year:

1973

In Your Dad's Pocket

Stine is now eleven and her life and world in a Copenhagen suburb's modern social housing is portrayed in episodes around her family, friends and school.

6.0

Year:

1973

På'en igen Amalie

5.7

Year:

1973

The Olsen Gang in Jutland

The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.

7.0

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

Where Is the Body, Moeller?

Where Is the Body, Moeller? is a 1971 Danish comedy film directed by Preben Kaas and starring Dirch Passer.

5.7

Year:

1971

Revolution My A..

A comedy about a Danish private detective, normally just occupied with cases about unfaithful spouses, is suddenly involved in murder, arms deal, revolution in Guateragua, briefcase full of money and the Danish intelligence agency.

6.3

Year:

1970

Tough Guys of the Prairie

Wild West Danish comedy.

5.1

Year:

1970

The Olsen Gang in a Fix

A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent.

6.6

Year:

1969

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

Nyhavns glade gutter

Danish family film directed by Carl Ottosen

5.5

Year:

1967

Martha

The oldest ship in the fleet, Martha, and her jolly crew, must race Harald and win, or it's the scrappers next.

6.6

Year:

1967

Cirkusrevyen 67

6.8

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 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

Mor bag rattet

5.3

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

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1964

Selvmordsskolen

Bizarre satiric tale about an ordinary Danish man disappointed in life and the welfare system. Close to a total collapse he decides to take the easy way out. He seeks help at Doctor X, head of a suicide school that guarantees 100% efficiency.

8.0

Year:

1964

Friends at Arms: Causing Mischief

5.0

Year:

1962

Friends at Arms: On Autumn Exercises

5.4

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1961

Løgn og løvebrøl

6.0

Year:

1961

To skøre ho'der

7.3

Year:

1961

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

Den sidste vinter

5.2

Year:

1960

The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte

The poet and Lillemor have become parents, but poetry and washing the diapers are two subjects which are hard to unite under the same roof. The two just married couples, the barber Anton and Vera plus the baker and Lise, are having some difficulties with their marriages but that doesn't scare off the butcher, who's got the hots for the midwife.

5.4

Year:

1960

Friends at Arms: Marching Out

A military comedy about disobedient and playful recruits.

4.1

Year:

1959

De sjove aar

4.0

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

6-Day Race

Semi documentary on a famous cycle race in Copenhagen. The story is about the competition between the riders as well as about their private and marital struggles.

7.0

Year:

1958

Other People's Children

The sympathetic farmers couple, Mads and Katrine (Hass Christensen and Malberg) are marked by their daughter's death. Katrine has to avoid other children. When Mads invites six city children for the summer holiday, however, old traumas are recovered.

4.0

Year:

1958

Henrik and Pernille

TV adaptation of Holberg's popular 1724 confusion comedy: Henrik (Paul Hagen) and Pernille (Birgitte Reimer) are two servants working for their respective lordships and they each independently fall for the temptation to put on the clothes of their lordships and pretend to be someone other than who they are. Unfortunately, the two meet each other in their new disguises - and fall in love.

0.0

Year:

1957

Father of Four: And Uncle Sofus

At home in the small family is nothing new. Tiny Per is the school's mischief maker, Sister has heartaches, Mie and Ole has to be in the school play, etc. But suddenly something happens. Good old Uncle Anders has a twin brother in the United States. He called Sofus, and now he comes home to celebrate 70th birthday. He was a troublemaker when he left and now he has become even worse

6.2

Year:

1957

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

Sin Alley

A fresh faced country boy comes to Copenhagen looking for a job and falls in with a group of hoodlums who use him as bait to lure older gay men they can rob and blackmail.

4.7

Year:

1957

Værelse søges!

0.0

Year:

1948

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