Poul Reichhardt
Actor, Film actor
1913 – 1985
Who was Poul Reichhardt?
Poul David Reichhardt was a Danish actor, well known for his roles in Danish 1940s/50s comedies. Later on, he also played more serious and varied roles; he has also starred in Huset på Christianshavn, Matador and as various minor characters in the Olsen Gang films.
For almost thirty years Reichhardt was a leading Danish heroic charmer in movies and partly also on stage. His acting debut was in 1931 as an extra in the play Styrmand Karlsens flammer in Nørrebros Theater. Already during the 1930s he won himself a name, this was cemented during World War II and from 1945 he stood as the movie hero par excellence: the plain, regular, quick-witted, sometimes hot-tempered, but often humorous man playing in melodramas and comedies. His versatile talent of acting and singing created him a widespread area as an artist.
Poul Reichhardt got a special popularity during his performing in the so-called Morten Korch movies in the 1950s based upon novels written by a just as popular Danish regionalist light literate – here he normally played the honest young farmer fighting for his happiness and for his love. Often criticised for playing in low quality products he always did his best even in poor roles and his temporary overplay and loudness was compensated by his engagement and self-irony. Perhaps his best movie roles were as a resistance man, and as the soldier in Soldaten og Jenny,
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- Born
- Feb 2, 1913
Copenhagen - Also known as
- Reichhardt, Poul
- Poul David Reichhardt
- Poul Reichardt
- Spouses
- Charlotte Ernst
(1962/06/25 - 1973/06/11) - Margareta Fahlén
(1955/05/31 - ) - Lili Lani
(1946/05/20 - 1955)
- Charlotte Ernst
- Children
- Nationality
- Denmark
- Profession
- Died
- Oct 31, 1985
Denmark
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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