
Carl Theodor Dreyer
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.
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Acting (10 movies)

Dreyer's Gertrud
2022

Carl Th. Dreyer
1966

Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema
2020

Carl Dreyer
2006

Nitrate Flames
2015

Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer
1965

The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
1982

Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier
1995

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968

A Life's Work – Carl Th. Dreyer's Jesus Film
1970
Directing (22 movies)

Vampyr
1932

The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928

Gertrud
1964

Leaves from Satan's Book
1920

Love One Another
1922

The Parson's Widow
1920

They Caught the Ferry
1948

Ordet
1955

Michael
1924

Master of the House
1925

Two People
1945

Once Upon a Time
1922

The Bride of Glomdal
1926

The President
1919

Thorvaldsen
1949
Good Mothers
1942

A Castle Within a Castle
1954

The Fight Against Cancer
1947
Water from the Land
1946

The Village Church
1947

Storstrøm Bridge
1950

Day of Wrath
1943