Dirch Hartvig Passer (May 18, 1926 - September 3, 1980) was a Danish actor. Dirch Passer was greatly renowned for his incredibly humorous and improvisational skills as an actor. May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Dirch Passer was, with a filmography counting 110 movies, one of the most active Danish actors ever.

When he was young, Passer was very shy, and had a dream of becoming an actor, but since his father wanted him to get a real job, he attended J. Lauritzen's sea training school near Svendborg in 1944. But since he had ongoing problems with seasickness, he later started at De frederiksbergske teatres Elevskole. Svendborg is a city in central Denmark, located in Svendborg municipality on the island of Funen. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Seasickness is hazardous for scuba divers Seasickness is the feeling of nausea and, in extreme cases, vertigo experienced after spending time on a craft on water. ...

During the 1950s he formed a duo with his colleague and friend Kjeld Petersen. Their revue sketches based upon the contrast between Petersen’s mixture of joviality and desperate anger and Passer’s almost passive dead pan comic are still classics. The sudden death of Kjeld Petersen 1962 made Dirch Passer avoiding revues for some years but he built up a single career and from 1967 her also returned to the revue gaining new victories. Many thin jokes in the manuscripts were greatly improved by his performance. Especially his many amiable-eccentric “nature experts” together with his sketch roles as a baby and as a nonsense "Russian"-speaking clown made hits. From his later years must be mentioned an almost silent sketch in which he portrays a man’s vain attempt of stopping smoking (also shown in West German TV). 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... West Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include East Germany. ...

He was often referred to as a very loud actor in spite of the fact that under-acting made much of his force. A Danish critic (Jens Kistrup) once said that one of the secrets behind the comic of Passer was its combination of elements that are normally regarded incompatible. He possessed noisiness and discretion, loudness and quietness, boundlessness and complete control, craziness and softness – all this combined with a special intimacy with the audience. Among his inspirations he mentioned Joe E. Brown but he was also known for his admiration of the British comedian Tommy Cooper. In his films that were often of very various qualities he often played kind and a bit crazy Mr. Everymen as often as not anti heroes. Among his best movie roles were stage roles transferred to film, here must be mentioned the hero in Charley’s Aunt (1959), Celestin-Floridor in Frøken Nitouche, (1963) and Leopold in Summer in Tyrol (i. e. The White Horse Inn, 1964). Joe E. Brown may refer to several people: Joseph Evans Brown (July 28, 1892 - July 6, 1973), American screen actor, portrayer of Capn Andy Hawks in the motion picture Show Boat Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 - November 30, 1894) governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1865, and U... Tommy Cooper (March 19, 1921 – April 15, 1984) was a British comedian and magician born in Caerphilly, Wales. ... Charleys Aunt is a farce written by Brandon Thomas and first performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds on 29 February 1892, produced by DOyly Carte actor, W. S. Penley, who appeared in the principal role of Lord Fancourt Babberly . ... For other White Horse Inns see the White Horse disambiguation page. ...

Numerous Danish actors see him as a rolemodel. In regular day-to-day life he was quite shy in behaviour, somewhat the opposite of his theatrical appearances. He died under a sketch, where he was acting like the Danish rocksinger Kim Larsen. Kim Larsen (b October 23, 1945 in Copenhagen) is a Danish rock musician. ...

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