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
- Landsbylægen as Læge A.H. Bonnesen
- Ullabella as Overpræsident
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
- Det var paa Rundetaarn ... (Actor's Assistant)
- The Blinded as Redaktøren på Sallinghavn Amtsavis
- Tre finder en kro as Højesteretssagfører Hans Ovesen
1954
- Kongeligt besøg
- Hendes store aften as Vicevært Julius Jensen
- Sukceskomponisten as Organist Sørensen
1953
- Det gælder livet
- Den gamle mølle paa Mols as Klemmesen
- Hejrenæs as Herskabstjener Blackhøj
- Min søn Peter
- Vi som går køkkenvejen as Redaktøren
1952
- Avismanden as Kesse
- 2 Minutes Late as Vicevært Johansen
- Vejrhanen as Theodor Nielsen
- Husmandstøsen as Søren Torpegaard
- Ta' Pelle med as Gårdejer Lauritz
- Det store løb as Vilhelm Stone (godsejer)
- Us Petty Sinners as Gulbæk, antikvar
1951
- Dorte as Prokuristen
- Fra den gamle købmandsgaard as Godsejer Bjerre
- Frihed forpligter as Sørens morfar
- Fodboldpræsten as Prokurist Nielsen
- The Face of Truth as Arkitektens onkel, Pastor Mikael Rolff
- Meet Me on Cassiopeia as Zeus
- Som sendt fra himlen as Kommandanten
- Zwischen Herz und Gewissen ... (Director)
1950
- Mosekongen as Claus Munk
- Café Paradis
- The Red Horses as Købmand Hans Offor
- Historien om Hjortholm
1949
- For freedom and justice as Niels Nielsen
1948
1947
- Mani
- Røverne fra Rold as Søren Hvass - Storbonde
- Jenny and the Soldier as Frederik Christensen
1945
1944
- Besættelse as Jens Steen, Manufakturhandler
- Eight Chords
- Det kære København
- Mit Liv er Musik as Walter S. Nielson, impresario
- Teatertosset as Fuglesang
1943
- En pige uden lige
- My Dear Wives as Herbert Reimer
- Hans Onsdags-Veninde as Magdas far
- Erik Ejegods pilgrimsfærd as Ferdinand Piper, teaterdirektør
1942
- Derailed as Organisten 'Bessefar'
- Lykken kommer as Frederik Hagen
1941
- Tag til Rønneby kro as Kroejer Bartholdi
- Frk. Kirkemus as Obersten
- Come Home With Me as Valdemar Nielsen
- Tag det som en mand as Theodor Woller, godsejer
1940
- Sommerglæder
- I de gode gamle Dage as Fyrst Ivar Rose
- Jeg har elsket og levet as Tutein
1939
- En lille Tilfældighed
- Nordhavets mænd
- Children of Divorce as Professor Dreyer, kunstmaler
1938
- Alarm as Fabrikant Schmidt
- Under byens tage as Kunstprofessor Abel
1937
- Incognito as Direktør A. Schram
- Danmark for Folket as Hr. Justesen
- Plat eller krone as Herkules' far
1936
1935
- Rasmines bryllup as Blikkenslager Mikkelsen
- De bør forelske Dem
1934
- Lynet as Generaldirektør
- Skaf en sensation as Redaktør Johannes Halling
- Nøddebo Præstegaard
- Flugten fra millionerne as Præsident for Papegøjesamfundet
1933
- De blaa drenge
- Saa til Søs as Direktør Johan Nordborg
- 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
1912
1910
- A Wedding During the French Revolution as Erneste des Tressailles