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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Directed

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) — Director
2. Vampyr (1932) — Director
3. Ordet (1955) — Director
4. Day of Wrath (1943) — Director
5. Gertrud (1964) — Director
6. Master of the House (1925) — Director
7. Michael (1924) — Director
8. The Parson's Widow (1920) — Director
9. Leaves from Satan's Book (1920) — Director
10. They Caught the Ferry (1948) — Director
11. The President (1919) — Director
12. Love One Another (1922) — Director
13. The Bride of Glomdal (1926) — Director
14. Once Upon a Time (1922) — Director
15. Thorvaldsen (1949) — Director
16. A Castle Within a Castle (1954) — Director
17. Storstrøm Bridge (1950) — Director
18. Two People (1945) — Director
19. Good Mothers (1942) — Director
20. The Fight Against Cancer (1947) — Director
21. Water from the Land (1946) — Director
22. The Village Church (1947) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
2. Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier (1995) — Himself
3. Carl Th. Dreyer (1966) — Self
4. Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer (1965) — Self
5. The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer (1982)
6. Dr. Cook at Copenhagen (1909)
7. Nitrate Flames (2015) — Himself (archive footage)
8. Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud (1994)
9. Dreyer's Gertrud (2022) — Self (archive footage)
10. Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema (2020) — Self (archive footage)
11. Carl Dreyer (2006) — Himself
12. Dr. Cooks Arrival
13. A Life's Work – Carl Th. Dreyer's Jesus Film (1970) — Self (archive footage)