Christoffer Bro

Christoffer Bro

Born: October 30, 1935
Christian Christoffer Christoffersen Bro er søn af lærer Viggo Johannes Christoffersen Bro (død 1937) og hustru søndagsskolelærer Anna Christensen (død 1964). Han blev stud.mag. og havde læst hos Einar Juhl, da han kom på elevskole på Aarhus Teater 1958-60. Der fik han straks debut som Puk i "En skærsommernatsdrøm". Han viste også sit komiske talent som Jonatan i "Folk og røvere", som Elin Reimers partner i musicalen "Rose Marie" og som Herløv i "Eventyr på Fodrejsen" i 62. I 1959 var han med til at oprette Forsøgsscenen i Århus. Han spillede i revyer på ABC-teatret i 62/63, og på Dansk Skolescene var han Peter i "Anne Franks dagbog" i 62 og Leander i "Scapins gavtyvestreger" i 64. I 1963 var han også på Folketeatret som Pierrot i "Don Juan". I tv spillede han Les i "Jimmys tog" i 63 og Lexy i "Candida" i 64. I København fik han mange gode opgaver - bl. a. som Kirsebærkat i "Sommeren" på Boldhus Teatret, som "Kong Ubu" i Riddersalen og som Søren Brun i "Radiserne" på Allé Scenen med søsteren Vigga Bro som Trine. Christoffer Bro var pioner i det opsøgende teaterarbejde på landets arbejdspladser. Han var direktør på Gladsaxe Teater i årene 1972-1984, hvor der bl.a. blev vist følgende forestillinger: "Niels Klim", "Heksejagt", "Hvem er bange for Virginia Woolf?" og "Kristihimmelfartsfesten". Efter tiden som teaterchef fortsatte Christoffer Bro som skuespiller og har været instruktør på teatrene. Han iscenesatte bl.a. revyen "Spektakler i juli", "Lille Malcolm", "Arbejderen kan 300 ord", "Hvem er det der blir snydt", "Månebørn", "Henrik og Pernille" og "Med hatten lige på hovedet". Han havde roller i "The Boys in the Band", "Seks på Weekend", "Den gamle dame besøger byen", "Clockwork Orange", "Rygter, rygter", "Eventyr på fodrejsen", "Brok" og i mangfoldige andre opsætninger. Fra 1963 til 1978 var han gift med skuespillerinden Helle Hertz, med hvem han fik 3 børn. De er alle - Anders Peter, Nicolas og Laura - uddannede skuespillere. Han filmdebuterede som marinesoldat i filmen "Sorte Shara" og har gennem årene haft en del småroller. Han spillede Tom i "Paradis retur", Soldaten i "Sommerkrig" og han medvirkede i en række sengekantsfilmm ligesom han havde roller på TV. Bl.a. huskes han for sin rolle som Fiffig Jørgensen i julekalenderen "Nissebanden i Grønland" fra 1989 og han spillede den usympatiske Nicolaisen fra Taxanævnet i TV-serien "Taxa" i 1998-1999.

Movies for Christoffer Bro...

Title: Nissernes Ø
Character: Fiffig-Jørgensen
Released: December 1, 2003
Type: TV
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Wild Flowers
Title: Wild Flowers
Character: Detective Commissioner
Released: October 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Denmark in the 70's. The teenager Christoffer's parents Nisse and Maria have decided to move into a commune because they want to try the alternative lifestyle. But Christoffer doesn't like it and has trouble adapting. In school the others tease him because he lives in a commune. As a plan from the elders in the commune he starts in a Maoist group to learn about the real ways of the society. He doesn't like it but when his new girlfriend starts to see what he does as cool he goes into it. But at the same time the police start to suspect him to be the terrorist who blows up telephone booths around Copenhagen.
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Black Harvest
Title: Black Harvest
Character: Frands Uldahl
Released: November 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate offspring in addition to his beautiful family. Nobody stands up to him except his feisty 17-year-old daughter.
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Hjælp - min datter vil giftes
Title: Hjælp - min datter vil giftes
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: Parløb
Character: Receptionisten
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Nissebanden i Grønland
Character: Fiffig-Jørgensen
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: TV
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Danmark er lukket
Title: Danmark er lukket
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
In the future, Denmark has been made a nuclear waste dump and the Danish language is banned.
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The Moelleby affair
Title: The Moelleby affair
Character: Ingeniør
Released: December 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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En ægtemand
Title: En ægtemand
Character: Viggo
Released: March 2, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Aladdin eller den forunderlige lampe
Character: Narren
Released: December 26, 1975
Type: TV
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Bedside Highway
Title: Bedside Highway
Character: Journalist Edward
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local village to end up in the sack. His goal is to get them to sign papers allowing a new highway to go through the middle of town. Their goal is to get him to re-route the highway.
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Bedside Head
Title: Bedside Head
Character: Erik Barneweller
Released: March 3, 1972
Type: Movie
The young headmaster of a boy's boarding school has decided that due to the virility of his young charges, they are a sort of national treasure. He believes that his school should become co-educational as soon as possible. In order to raise funds for the changeover, the boys stay behind during their summer vacation and temporarily convert the school into a love hotel.
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Bedside Dentist
Title: Bedside Dentist
Released: September 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Thomas, a naive young dental student, faces a rather difficult challenge. His millionaire aunt, a bit of a sex nut, will give both him and his dental school millions if he can prove that he is sexually able and skillful. His schoolmates hear rumors of this trial, but understand the challenge to be for him to keep his celibacy.
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Bedroom Mazurka
Title: Bedroom Mazurka
Released: August 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Max (Søltoft) is a popular teacher at a public school who needs a new schoolmaster. In an effort to entice him to take the vacated position, the boys hire a stripper to seduce the sexually inexperienced scholar. The wife and daughter of the former headmaster also wish to tutor the teacher in their own private lessons in human sexuality.
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Tre små piger
Title: Tre små piger
Released: August 5, 1966
Type: Movie
Grev Rambow har mistet sin formue og må nu bo til leje sammen med sine tre døtre, Beate, Marie og Annette. Grevens eneste håb er, at døtrene gifter sig tilbage til fordums rigdom. Så da tre bejlere melder sig, bliver de nøje målt og vejet. Alt går som planlagt, indtil den rige Hertuginde de Groos vil have sit skvat af en søn gift med Beate. Den desperate greve slår straks til. Men Beate er forelsket i en anden, og nu må pigerne stå sammen, så de alle kan få den, de elsker. Det er en sand stjernebesætning, der stiller op til den sang-, sjov- solfyldte ”Tre Små Piger” - baseret på Walter Kollos operette fra 1927. Instruktør Ebbe Langberg har æren af at instruere Poul Bundgaard, Susse Wold, Malene Schwartz, Daimi, Ove Sprogøe, Bodil Udsen, Karl Stegger og ikke mindst sin 26-årige lillebror, Jesper Langberg i en film, der er lige dele underholdende lystspil og imponerende flot udstyrsstykke. Stærke kræfter bag en musikalsk storfilm - på DVD i Nordisk Films 100-års jubilæumsår.
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Hold da helt ferie
Title: Hold da helt ferie
Character: Kim Kærbo
Released: December 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Søren is looking forward to a relaxing camping holiday with his wife, Marianne. But nothing goes as planned, when his two daughters and mother-in-law join them.
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Mor bag rattet
Title: Mor bag rattet
Released: November 5, 1965
Type: Movie
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4 x 4
Title: 4 x 4
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
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Tine
Title: Tine
Released: September 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Danish melodrama about a housemaid struggling to find normalcy and love in the midst of war.
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Paradise and Back
Title: Paradise and Back
Released: February 21, 1964
Type: Movie
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Peters landlov
Title: Peters landlov
Character: Peter
Released: June 27, 1963
Type: Movie
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Sorte Shara
Title: Sorte Shara
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: Movie
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Father of Four: In the Countryside
Title: Father of Four: In the Countryside
Released: November 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Its summer and everyone are going on holiday to a small fisher town in Jutland.