Arthur Jensen

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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Arthur Jensen

Filmografia

Familien Gyldenkål vinder valget

Gys og gæve tanter

Piger til søs

Olsen-bandens store kup

Ta' lidt solskin

Don Olsen kommer til byen

Nyhavns glade gutter

Een pige og 39 sømænd

5 mand og Rosa

Ballade på Christianshavn

Den gamle mølle paa Mols

Familien Olsen

Fængslende feriedage

Fætrene på Torndal

Sønnen fra Vingården

Jeppe på Bjerget

Venus fra Vestø

Kristiane af Marstal

Dyden går amok

Stormvarsel

Jensen længe leve!

Panserbasse

Flaadens blaa matroser

Inkognito

Højt paa en Kvist

Sytten

Nøddebo præstegård

Den røde rubin

Damernes ven

I kongens klæ'r

Under byens tage

Snushanerne

Ud i den kolde sne

Hvad med os?

Det tossede paradis

Et eventyr om tre

Mig og min lillebror

Affæren i Mølleby

Barken Margrethe

Bussen

Københavnere

Olsen-banden

Manden på Svanegården

Olsen-banden går amok

Olsen-banden deruda'

Olsen-banden overgiver sig aldrig

Pigen og pressefotografen

Slå først, Frede

Vi har det jo dejligt

Den kloge mand

Hærværk

Flagermusen

Sexy club

Lille Virgil og Orla Frøsnapper

Mazurka på sengekanten

Mifune - Dogma 3

Mord for åbent tæppe

Motorvej på sengekanten

Romantik på sengekanten

Soya's en Tagsten i Ho'det

Tandlæge på sengekanten

Kidnapped

Tretten Aar

Fem raske piger

Han, hun og Hamlet

Giftes - nej tak!

København, Kalundborg og -?

Paw

Kriminalsagen Tove Andersen

Min søn Peter

Smukke-Arne og Rosa

En nat i Venedig

Kristinus Bergman

Utro

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