Preben Lerdorff Rye
Born: 1917-05-23 in Rudkøbing, Denmark
Died: 1995-06-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Preben Lerdorff Rye was a prolific actor in Danish cinema during the mid-to-late 20th century. After varied educations in physical labor jobs, Rye debuted at Odenste Teater in 1938 and later got admitted to Det Kgl. Teater as a student in 1940, where he later became an actor, and was performing on stage up until 1961. Rye then took a brief break from the stage and acting and went on to live as a "civilian", until 1973, where he took up acting full time again, both in film and in theaters.
Filmography
1995
- Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier as Interview Subject
1989
- Christian as Grandfather
- Danish Literature as Self
- Isolde
- Medea as Paedragon
1987
- Babette's Feast as Kaptajnen
- Hip Hip Hurrah! as Blinde Christian
- The Fight For The Red Cow
1984
- The Element of Crime as Grandfather
1982
- Den ubetænksomme elsker as Bruun, læge
- Opfinderkontoret as Carl Carlsen
1981
- Sigurd Fafnersbane as Odin
1980
- Next Stop - Paradise as Hjalmar Krog
- It's a World Full of Children as Gynecologist
1978
- Mirror, Mirror
- Ludvigsbakke as Herren på stue A
1977
- Vandalism
- Sofies skolegang as Christian Kold
- The Fishermen as Teacher Aaby
1976
- Copper as Fessor
- Normannerne as Regnar Lodbrog
1975
1974
- Nineteen Red Roses as Holger Hjort
1973
- Erasmus Montanus as The Lieutenant
1972
- Solens børn as Egor
- Præsten i Vejlby
1971
- The Woolen Stocking Peddler as Vandringsmanden
1966
- Der var engang
- Søskende as Mikael
1965
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer as Self
- Grænseland as Manden
1964
- Paradise and Back
- Premiere i helvede as Phillip Michelsen - Skuespiller
- Dannevirkenatten as Bølling
1961
- Løgn og løvebrøl
- Hans Nielsen Hauge as Kong Fredrik IV
1960
- Frihedens pris as Hipomand
- Skibet er ladet med
1959
- A Stranger Knocks as Han
1958
- Vagabonderne paa Bakkegaarden as Jonas
- Lyssky transport gennem Danmark as Onkel Mads
- Mariannes bryllup
1957
- Be Dear to Me
- Mig og min familie as Hans
- Sønnen fra Amerika as En arbejder
- Jul i Skovridergaarden as Fyrmester Larsen
- Cupid on the Phone as Carolus Lieberg, magister i litteratur
- Der var engang en gade as David
1956
- Hvad vil De ha'?
- Den kloge mand
- Tante Tut fra Paris as Arthur Blume
1955
- Ordet as Johannes Borgen (uncredited)
- Mod og mandshjerte as En gangster
- Ild og jord
- Gengæld as Forfatter Donner
1954
- Kongeligt besøg
- Karen, Maren og Mette as Henrik Larsen
1953
- The Tove Andersen Criminal Case as Kriminalbetjent Knudsen
- Adam and Eve as Tyven
1952
- Avismanden as Johansen
1951
- Frihed forpligter as Sørens kollega
- Lyntoget as Henning Knudsen
- Behind the red gates as Carlo Pedersen, ejer af Dromen
- Unge piger forsvinder i København as Johan, tjener, søn af fru Nielsen
1950
- Smedestræde 4 as Sømand
- I gabestokken as Sejr
- North Sea Boys as Værle
1949
1948
- Hr. Petit
- While the Gate was Locked
- The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman as Styrmand på Marie Grubbe
- Hvor er Far
1947
- Røverne fra Rold as Reinald - Justis højre hånd
- Hatten er sat
1946
- Discretion Wanted as Tømrermester Eriksen
- Hans Store Aften as Morten Just, forfatter
- Letter from the Dead as Skuespiller
1945
- Red Meadows as Alf
- I gaar og i morgen
1943
- Day of Wrath as Martin, Absalon's Son from First Marriage (uncredited)
1942
- Derailed as Willy Hansen
1941
- Tante Cramers Testamente as Alfred Olsen, tjener i "Balalajka"