Johannes Meyer
Born: 1884-05-28 in Skodsborg, Denmark
Died: 1972-11-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Handsome smart tall blonde Danish performer Johannes Meyer born in 1884. After graduating grom Gymnasium, Mayer applied twice to the Royal Theatre School and was twice rejected. He made his stage debut at the Dagmarteatret in Copenhagen in 1905 and went on to perform at nearly every theatre in Copenhagen. He appeared in more than 100 movies, making his first film playing the role of Erneste des Tressailles in Viggo Larsen's 'Revolutionsbryllup' at the Nordist Film Co in 1909, His most memorable role as Viktor Frandsen in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 'Master of the House' at the Palladium Film Co in 1925. He was mostly seen in character or supporting roles in many talkies from 1933 until his last film appearance playing the role of Bilvis in Gabriel Axel's 'Hagbard and Signe' in 1967. He was also active on radio and in T.V. dramas and was stage director of the Fonixteatret and Norrebros Theatre before he was hired by the Royal Theatre in 1941. Died in Denmark in 1972 age 88.
Filmography
1967
- The Red Mantle as Bilvis
1964
- Death Comes at High Noon as Dr. Joachim Lindberg
- Tine as Hr. Bølling
1963
- Støvsugerbanden as Augustin
- Hvis lille pige er du? as Zimmermann
1961
- Ullabella as Overpræsident
- Landsbylægen as Læge A.H. Bonnesen
1960
- Flemming and Kvik as Rektor Halling
1958
- Styrmand Karlsen as Kaptajn Vilhelm Hammer
- Krudt og klunker as Professor Ferdinand Schrøder
- That Won't Keep a Sailor Down as Waiter
1955
- The Blinded as Redaktøren på Sallinghavn Amtsavis
- Tre finder en kro as Højesteretssagfører Hans Ovesen
- Det var paa Rundetaarn ... (Actor's Assistant)
1954
- Sukceskomponisten as Organist Sørensen
- Hendes store aften as Vicevært Julius Jensen
- Kongeligt besøg
1953
- Hejrenæs as Herskabstjener Blackhøj
- Den gamle mølle paa Mols as Klemmesen
- Det gælder livet
- Vi som går køkkenvejen as Redaktøren
- Min søn Peter
1952
- Husmandstøsen as Søren Torpegaard
- Vejrhanen as Theodor Nielsen
- Us Petty Sinners as Gulbæk, antikvar
- Avismanden as Kesse
- Det store løb as Vilhelm Stone (godsejer)
- Ta' Pelle med as Gårdejer Lauritz
- 2 Minutes Late as Vicevært Johansen
1951
- Fodboldpræsten as Prokurist Nielsen
- Frihed forpligter as Sørens morfar
- Fra den gamle købmandsgaard as Godsejer Bjerre
- Meet Me on Cassiopeia as Zeus
- Som sendt fra himlen as Kommandanten
- The Face of Truth as Arkitektens onkel, Pastor Mikael Rolff
- Dorte as Prokuristen
- Zwischen Herz und Gewissen ... (Director)
1950
- Café Paradis
- Mosekongen as Claus Munk
- The Red Horses as Købmand Hans Offor
- Historien om Hjortholm
1949
- For freedom and justice as Niels Nielsen
1948
1947
- Røverne fra Rold as Søren Hvass - Storbonde
- Jenny and the Soldier as Frederik Christensen
- Mani
1945
1944
- Eight Chords
- Det kære København
- Mit liv er musik as Walter S. Nielson, impresario
- Besættelse as Jens Steen, Manufakturhandler
- Teatertosset as Fuglesang
1943
- Hans Onsdags-Veninde as Magdas far
- Erik Ejegods pilgrimsfærd as Ferdinand Piper, teaterdirektør
- En pige uden lige
- My Dear Wives as Herbert Reimer
1942
- Derailed as Organisten 'Bessefar'
- Lykken kommer as Frederik Hagen
1941
- Frk. Kirkemus as Obersten
- Come Home With Me as Valdemar Nielsen
- Tag til Rønneby kro as Kroejer Bartholdi
- Tag det som en mand as Theodor Woller, godsejer
1940
- I de gode gamle dage as Fyrst Ivar Rose
- Sommerglæder
- Jeg har elsket og levet as Tutein
1939
- Nordhavets mænd
- En lille tilfældighed
- Children of Divorce as Professor Dreyer, kunstmaler
1938
- Alarm as Fabrikant Schmidt
- Under byens tage as Kunstprofessor Abel
1937
- Danmark for Folket as Hr. Justesen
- Plat eller krone as Herkules' far
- Incognito as Direktør A. Schram
1936
1935
- Rasmines bryllup as Blikkenslager Mikkelsen
- De bør forelske Dem
1934
- Skaf en sensation as Redaktør Johannes Halling
- Nøddebo Præstegaard
- Flugten fra millionerne as Præsident for Papegøjesamfundet
- Lynet as Generaldirektør
1933
- Saa til Søs as Direktør Johan Nordborg
- De blaa drenge
- Die kleine Schwindlerin ... (Director)
1932
- Zwei himmelblaue Augen ... (Director)
1931
- Ash Wednesday ... (Director)
1929
- Hochverrat ... (Director)
1925
- Master of the House as Viktor Frandsen
1924
- One Lover Too Many ... (Director)
1923
- Smiles and Tears ... (Director)
1922
- Love One Another as Rylowitsch
1920
- Leaves from Satan's Book as Don Fernandez (second sequence)
1917
- The Secret of the Night Express as Wilton, prokurist
- While the Christmas Bells Rings
1914
- Aquitted as Officer
- Count Dahlbog's Secret
1913
- The Gambler's Wife as Werner