Arthur Jensen
Biography
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.
Acting (85 movies)
Agent 69 in the Sign of Scorpio
1977
The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
1977
Old Maids
1966
Girls at Sea
1977
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
Ta' lidt solskin
1969
Don Olsen kommer til byen
1964
Nyhavns glade gutter
1967
Een pige og 39 sømænd
1965
Five men and Rosa
1964
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971
Den gamle mølle paa Mols
1953
Familien Olsen
1940
Fætrene på Torndal
1973
Holidays in jail
1978
The Son from Vingaarden
1975
Jeppe på Bjerget
1981
Venus fra Vestø
1962
Kristiane af Marstal
1956
Dyden går amok
1966
Stormvarsel
1968
Jensen længe leve!
1965
Panserbasse
1936
Flaadens blaa matroser
1937
Incognito
1937
The Mannequins
1929
Erik Soya's 17
1965
Come to My Bedside
1975
Nøddebo præstegård
1974
The Song of the Red Ruby
1970
Snushanerne
1936
I kongens klæ'r
1954
Under byens tage
1938
Ladies Man
1969
Ud i den kolde sne
1934
Hvad med os?
1963
Crazy Paradise
1962
Me and My Kid Brother
1967
Et eventyr om tre
1954
In the Sign of the Lion
1976
The Moelleby affair
1976
Agent 69 Jensen in the Sign of Sagittarius
1978
In the Sign of the Gemini
1975
Barken Margrethe
1934
Bussen
1963
Københavnere
1933
The Man from Swan Farm
1972
The Olsen Gang
1968
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
1977
The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
1979
The Girl and the Press Photographer
1963
Strike First Freddy
1965
Vi har det jo dejligt
1963
Den kloge mand
1956
Vandalism
1977
Flagermusen
1966
Jumpin' at the Bedside
1976
Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
1980
Mifune
1999
Mord for åbent tæppe
1964
Bedroom Mazurka
1970
Bedside Highway
1972
Bedside Romance
1973
The Loose Tile
1966
Bedside Dentist
1971
Bedside Sailors
1976
Kidnapped
1935
Tretten Aar
1932
Fem raske piger
1933
Giftes - nej tak!
1936
He, She and Hamlet
1932
København, Kalundborg og -?
1934
Boy of Two Worlds
1959
The Tove Andersen Criminal Case
1953
Min søn Peter
1953
Pretty-Arne and Rosa
1967
Kristinus Bergman
1948
Utro
1966
Vores lille by
1954
To skøre ho'der
1961
Week-end
1935
Danmark for Folket
1937
Champagnegaloppen
1960
Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde
1976
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