As Actor
Nitrate Flames
2015
9.0
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Acting
Birth Date
February 3, 1889
Place of Birth
Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of Death
March 20, 1968
Biography
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). 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Complete Filmography
As Actor
Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier
1995
5.9
As Writer
Medea
1989
6.5
As Actor
Carl Th. Dreyer
1966
6.7
As Director, As Writer
Gertrud
1964
7.2
As Director, As Writer
Two People
1945
6.5
As Director, As Writer
Vampyr
1932
7.3
As Director, As Writer
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
8.0
As Director, As Writer
Michael
1924
6.3
As Director, As Writer
Once Upon a Time
1922
5.5
As Director, As Writer
Leaves from Satan's Book
1920
6.1
As Writer
Lay Down Your Arms!
1914
3.5