Place of Birth:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of Birth:
11/9/1897
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.
Agent 69 in the Sign of Scorpio
The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
Old Maids
Girls at Sea
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Ta' lidt solskin
Don Olsen kommer til byen
Nyhavns glade gutter
Een pige og 39 sømænd
Five men and Rosa
Our Home Is Our Castle
Den gamle mølle paa Mols
Familien Olsen
Fætrene på Torndal
Holidays in jail
The Son from Vingaarden
Jeppe på Bjerget
Venus fra Vestø
Kristiane af Marstal
Dyden går amok
Stormvarsel
Jensen længe leve!
Panserbasse
Flaadens blaa matroser
Incognito
The Mannequins
Erik Soya's 17
Come to My Bedside
Nøddebo præstegård
The Song of the Red Ruby
Snushanerne
I kongens klæ'r
Under byens tage
Ladies Man
Ud i den kolde sne
Hvad med os?
Crazy Paradise
Me and My Kid Brother
Et eventyr om tre
In the Sign of the Lion
The Moelleby affair
Agent 69 Jensen in the Sign of Sagittarius
In the Sign of the Gemini
Barken Margrethe
Bussen
Københavnere
The Man from Swan Farm
The Olsen Gang
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
The Girl and the Press Photographer
Strike First Freddy
Vi har det jo dejligt
Den kloge mand
Vandalism
Flagermusen
Jumpin' at the Bedside
Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
Mifune
Mord for åbent tæppe
Bedroom Mazurka
Bedside Highway
Bedside Romance
The Loose Tile
Bedside Dentist
Bedside Sailors
Kidnapped
Tretten Aar
Fem raske piger
Giftes - nej tak!
He, She and Hamlet
København, Kalundborg og -?
Boy of Two Worlds
The Tove Andersen Criminal Case
Min søn Peter
Pretty-Arne and Rosa
En nat i Venedig
Kristinus Bergman
Utro
Vores lille by
To skøre ho'der
Week-end
Stop Tyven!
Danmark for Folket
Champagnegaloppen
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