Carl Theodor Dreyer
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-02-03 (79 years old)
Deathday
1968-03-20
Place of Birth
Copenhagen, Denmark
Also known As
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl T. Dreyer
Carl Th. Dreyer
Carl-Th. Dreyer
Carl Dreyer
칼 테오도르 드레이어
卡尔·西奥多·德莱叶
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 ye...
Acting
2022
as Self (archive footage)
1966
as Self
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2006
as Himself
2015
as Himself (archive footage)
1965
1995
as Himself
2013
as Self
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1932
as Director
1932
as Producer
1928
as Director
1928
as Screenplay
1928
as Editor
1964
as Director
1964
as Writer
1920
as Director
1922
as Director
1918
as Writer
1920
as Director
1948
as Director
1955
as Director
1924
as Director
1924
as Adaptation
1924
as Screenplay
1925
as Director
1925
as Writer
1947
as Writer
1945
as Director
1922
as Director
1926
as Director
1926
as Writer
1919
as Director
1949
as Director
1942
as Director
1947
as Director
1954
as Director
1946
as Director
1947
as Director
1950
as Director
1914
as Writer
1913
as Writer
1916
as Writer
1920
as Writer
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as Screenplay
1946
as Writer
1950
as Writer
1920
as Adaptation
1919
as Writer
1989
as Screenplay
1920
as Screenplay
1945
as Writer
1945
as Editor
1928
as Title Graphics
1955
as Screenplay
1955
as Producer
1943
as Screenplay
1943
as Producer
1943
as Director
1948
as Writer
1932
as Screenplay
1942
as Writer
1954
as Writer
1917
as Screenplay
1925
as Editor
1925
as Art Direction
1925
as Set Decoration
1950
as Writer
1919
as Screenplay
1919
as Art Direction
1947
as Screenplay
1947
as Producer
1972
as In Memory Of
1922
as Writer
1922
as Writer
1947
as Writer
1917
as Screenplay
1915
as Writer
1916
as Writer
1913
as Writer
1949
as Screenplay
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