Harald Madsen

Harald Madsen

Born: November 20, 1890
Died: July 13, 1949
in Silkeborg, Denmark

Movies for Harald Madsen...

Calle og Palle
Title: Calle og Palle
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Calle and Palle work as assistants at Circus Bollini.
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I de gode gamle dage
Title: I de gode gamle dage
Character: Bivognen
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
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Pat und Patachon im Paradies
Title: Pat und Patachon im Paradies
Character: Patachon
Released: October 21, 1937
Type: Movie
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Bleka greven
Title: Bleka greven
Character: Släpvagnen
Released: February 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Swedish comedy from 1937. At castle Gyllenskiöld Holm a lawyer reads the deceased Count's will. Son Rouglas inherits the estate in front of Anne-Marie, Countess's daughter and the woman whom the testator had hoped to Rouglas would marry. But there is a supplement in the will to be read out after six months.
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Blinde Passagiere
Title: Blinde Passagiere
Character: Patachon, blinder Passagier
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
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Mädchenräuber
Title: Mädchenräuber
Character: Patachon
Released: February 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Film by Sauer.
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Zirkus Saran
Title: Zirkus Saran
Character: Clown
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Knox owns half of the Circus Saran and acts as a clown there. He hides his circus life from his daughter and is very embarrassed when his daughter finds out his true profession. Hans Moser, who plays Knox, performs poorly, because the character he plays is simply not funny. Leo Slezak, who owns the other half of the circus, as well as Pat and Patachon perform better. The only really good thing about this film is its music, composed by Robert Stolz; especially the song "Ein bisschen Sing-Sang und gute Kameradschaft" , which can be heard throughout the movie.
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He, She and Hamlet
Title: He, She and Hamlet
Released: November 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Fyrtårnet and Bivognen are gardeners at a residence for young women. Here they are friends with budding actress Eva, but when the three reveal one evening during the performance of an illegal theater performance, they are kicked out. By detours, they get on board a schooner, where Fy and Bi play up to dance and get seasick, while Eva still has her course set against the sloping boards.
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In the Army
Title: In the Army
Released: March 28, 1932
Type: Movie
While enjoying a glorious summer’s day at the beach, Pat and Patachon meet the beautiful Mona, whom they both fall in love with. However, they’re soon given something else to think about when they’re drafted into the armed forces and sent to a cantonment. The two friends struggle to find their place among the other soldiers, and they get into all sorts of escapades. One day, fate lends a helping hand when the company take up residence on a farm in North Zealand, where the two friends discover, to their delight, that this is where Mona lives. (stumfilm.dk)
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Pat and Patachon Invent the Gunpowder
Title: Pat and Patachon Invent the Gunpowder
Released: October 16, 1931
Type: Movie
In a boarding house in the city live our friends Pat and Patachon, who have settled down in relative comfort for a modest sum of money. In the room next door lives an old inventor, a good friend of Pat and Patachon"s. He’s been working on a television set for some time now, and it seems that his efforts will bear fruit. Patachon has caught the inventing bug and wants to come up with smokeless and noiseless gunpowder. All the while, Pat becomes increasingly worried about his friend. Two shady gentlemen are now attempting to steal the valuable drawings for the television invention, and Pat and Patachon become suspects in the case. Fortunately, the real thieves are caught, and Patachon gets the opportunity to demonstrate his ingenious invention. Stumfilm.dk
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Beware of the Girls
Title: Beware of the Girls
Character: Bi
Released: December 26, 1930
Type: Movie
There are many ways to travel! Rich Director Brown's two young daughters prefer a first-class coupe in a high-speed train. While the train whizzes along the rails on its way to the big city, the young ladies in a strange way meet two strange guys, one long and thin, the other small and thick ... Fy and Bi! Fy and Bi are on their way to the capital to look for a place, they have an introductory letter with them, and it turns out that it is for the young ladies' father. The two young ladies promise to put a good word in for them, but director Brown receives Fy and Bi with much distrust, and he throws them out. Through many trials and a breathtaking ride in a motorboat, however, Fy and Bi manage to make a good impression on the director.
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1000 German words
Title: 1000 German words
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
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William Tell and Son
Title: William Tell and Son
Character: Bivognen
Released: October 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Fy and Bi have moved into a very "modern" apartment and they now want to make their careers on the sloping boards. The sidecar is an excellent shooter and his role model is Wilhelm Tell. He therefore gets a brilliant idea: The lighthouse must stand with an apple on its head, and the Beehive will then shoot it down.
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The Mannequins
Title: The Mannequins
Character: Patachon (Bivognen)
Released: December 26, 1929
Type: Movie
Pat and Patachon live in the attic of an old house along with a number of other curious kinds of people. One of the residents is a fortune teller, who tells Patachon that he will inherit a fortune and marry one of the two sweet choir girls who live next door, and whom he happens to be in love with. The two friends don’t think much more of it and instead head off to work, as models for a tailor. They stroll through the streets in sharp suits, in the hopes that the two choir girls will see them and think that they’re wealthy men, who simply live in the run-down house to study the bohemian lifestyle.
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Clever Cannibals
Title: Clever Cannibals
Released: October 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Spirits are always high at the quayside pub The Red Rabbit. One day, adventurers Fy and Bi come by to look for work. Their luck is in! A police raid sends all the staff to prison. On the spur of the moment, two women from the upper-middle class decide to study the life of the common people by paying them a visit. A brawl ensues, and Fy and Bi chivalrously bring the two women to safety – or so they think! Before they know it, all four end up aboard a steamer in the pitch black of night, on their way to new adventures and unknown, dangerous shores. (stumfilm.dk)
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Detectives
Title: Detectives
Character: Bi
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves led by an unusually cunning criminal named Terry has been terrorizing the city for some time. The police are completely powerless, and in his embarrassment, the police director turns to a famous detective and asks him to try to expose this gang and, above all, get hold of Terry. Our two friends, the Lighthouse and the Beehive, have set up shop in a small kiosk. As they roll home in the evening with their "house", they unsuspectingly enter a street where the detective is looking for new clues. (Stumfilm.dk)
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Cocktails
Title: Cocktails
Character: It
Released: December 4, 1928
Type: Movie
The guardian of an heiress tries to destroy the reputation of her lover by planting drugs on him.
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The Film Heroes
Title: The Film Heroes
Character: Bivognen
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
By coincidence, Pat and Patachon are cast for the lead roles in a major film production. It quickly turns out that the odd couple doesn't fit in to just any plot, and especially Patachon's helpless attempts to play prince charming are testing the director's patience. (stumfilm.dk)
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The King of Pelicania
Title: The King of Pelicania
Character: Bivognen, sminkøren
Released: August 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Princess Lola has been exiled from her native Pelicania after one of her relatives usurped the throne. She is now the celebrated prima donna of the Revue Theatre, arousing rapturous applause from audiences night after night. However, the princess has her most devoted admirers behind the scenes. The young theatre doctor Ove Helmer loves her, and our two old friends, Pat and Patachon – one now a prompter at the theatre, the other a make-up artist – regard her with the warmest affection. When the princess finally gets the opportunity to return to her native Pelicania, Pat and Patachon are eager to come along to help her assert her position. As things progress, Patachon's striking resemblance to the country’s king has unexpected consequences. (stumfilm.dk)
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Strength and Beauty
Title: Strength and Beauty
Released: February 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Although the twins Flora and Dora attend the School of Sculpture, their real calling lies in gymnastics. They decide to open an “Institute of Strength and Beauty”, which does not go down well with Uncle Brown, who finances their numerous business adventures. When he announces his arrival in town and demands to see the results from the School of Sculpture, they find themselves in a predicament. (stumfilm.dk)
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The Thunderstones
Title: The Thunderstones
Character: Bivognen
Released: December 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Hans and Elinor are in love, but have to meet clandestinely to avoid the keen eyes of the headmistress at the home for girls where Elinor lives. When they are discovered, they seek refuge in a Chinese gazebo used by the vagabonds Pat and Patachon as a cheap summer residence. However, the two vagabonds quickly vacate the premises to let the young couple stay there. As a thank you, Hans, who is a sailor, enrols Long and Short as part of the crew on his rich uncle’s boat and invites the entire girls’ institute and its headmistress on a sailing trip. In disguise, Hans hopes to spend some time with Elinor, but once again they fail to deceive the headmistress. Long and Short now come upon the idea of hiring a brickworks, whose owner turns out to be Elinor’s uncle. But mysterious things happen at the factory, which does not make entirely ordinary bricks, and Long and Short find themselves caught up in yet another heady drama. (stumfilm.dk)
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At the North Sea
Title: At the North Sea
Character: Bivognen
Released: October 14, 1927
Type: Movie
When Pat and Patachon arrive in the small fishing village at the North Sea they are completely unaware of the adventure that lies ahead. The two eccentric travelers quickly become good friends with old Maren and her son Tom, who will soon need their help in more than one respect. (stumfilm.dk)
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Schwiegersöhne
Title: Schwiegersöhne
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
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Don Quixote
Title: Don Quixote
Character: Sancho Panza
Released: November 30, 1926
Type: Movie
The poor landowner Don Quixote is obsessed with chivalric romances. One day he gets the idea that he must restore the order of the wandering knights and even ride out on horseback in full gear. He persuades a simple peasant Sancho Panza to act as a weapon bearer with a promise of royal rewards. Although this at first seems to be a long way off, the hard-working pair suddenly set about a task that can turn them into real knights. (Stumfilm.dk)
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Ebberöds bank
Title: Ebberöds bank
Released: September 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Tailor Vipperup in Ebberöd has problems with liquidity: customers are bad at paying for his services while his own creditors are all the more intrusive. His consolation in life consists of his daughter Ellen and the faithful companion Tadeus. However, the repulsive trader Klemmensen, the town's richest man and most ruthless usurer, casts more and more lustful glances at Ellen.
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The Wolf Hunters
Title: The Wolf Hunters
Character: Bivognen
Released: March 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Nikolajsen is shocked by the news that he has an adult daughter who lives in Jutland – where wild wolves wander! His friends – the baker, the butcher, the tailor and the shoemaker – are entranced by the honour and glory they would gain by venturing forth and exterminating the feral wolves. Unfortunately for their chances of success, Nikolajsen and Co. decide to hire Pat and Patachon as their hunting guides. And so the wolf hunters will probably end up chasing their own tails for a while before Nikolajsen can be reunited with his daughter. (Stumfilm.dk)
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Dødsbokseren
Title: Dødsbokseren
Character: Bi
Released: January 9, 1926
Type: Movie
This one has three segments. In the first, they are ice sailing and fall into the water, where they float for a while, being tormented by seals and swordfish. Then they are rescued by a tramp steamer, where they are befriended by the cook and beaten up by the first officer. They hit port in Bilbao, where they rescue the captain's pretty niece, who seems to have been sold into the degrading life of a taxi dancer. On the way back, Madsen winds up boxing some big guy for a lot of money, with the usual amount of cheating and confusion
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Zwei Vagabunden im Prater
Title: Zwei Vagabunden im Prater
Released: September 25, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Smugglers
Title: The Smugglers
Character: Paulus Storm
Released: April 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Anne Marie (Lili Lani) gets invited by her aunt to a hotel to to meet her admirers. Not to fulfill her aunt's wishes, but to verify who works at the hotel.
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The Bilberries
Title: The Bilberries
Released: February 23, 1925
Type: Movie
When the modest butcher’s wife becomes a wealthy landowner, it immidiately goes to her head. With her new stuck-up attitude, she rejects the long-time butcher’s apprentice when he asks for her daughter’s hand in marriage. Fortunately, the poor butcher’s apprentice is friends with Pat and Patachon, who work in a circus and have experience with clownery. Together, they must fight fancy with silly, and ground the butcher’s wife’s aloofness, in the name of love! (Stumfilm.dk)
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The Last Laugh
Title: The Last Laugh
Character: Wedding Musician (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1924
Type: Movie
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
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He, She and Hamlet
Title: He, She and Hamlet
Released: September 16, 1922
Type: Movie
In a boarding house where young girls are kept under strict surveillance, only two persons of the male persuasion are allowed to enter. The gardeners Pat and Patachon are popular among the girls because they can play the accordion and sing songs, both cheerful and sad. One of the girls has attracted Pat and Patachon’s particular admiration: Eve, who dreams of becoming an actress. They clandestinely rehearse Shakespeare with her, but when their arrangement is discovered she is expelled. The pair follow Eve in secret, and they eventually have to save the naïve girl from the clutches of the horrible people she has trustingly become involved with. Stumfilm. dk
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We're Coming Back
Title: We're Coming Back
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Ahead of a performance in Sweden on 27 April 1923, Pat and Patachon shot a short promotional film titled ‘We’re Coming Back’ with the subtitle in Swedish: ‘A little prelude to the joy of the coming evenings.’ Patachon makes a call from a phone booth in Sweden to one of the phone booths on Kongens Nytorv, in Copenhagen, where Pat happens to be, and the two agree to accept the invitation to spend Easter in Handen, a suburb of Stockholm. (stumfilm.dk)
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Film, flirt og forlovelse
Title: Film, flirt og forlovelse
Character: Bivognen
Released: October 17, 1921
Type: Movie
Fyrtårnet og Bivognen (aka Pat und Patachon) enter movies - in more ways than one. This was the first one pairing Carl Schenstrøm & Harald Madsen for what became a popular and long-lasting comic duo.
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Alexander the Great
Title: Alexander the Great
Character: Teodor Lampe
Released: November 12, 1917
Type: Movie
In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.