Claus Nissen

Claus Nissen

Born: July 28, 1938
Died: April 29, 2008
in Denmark

Movies for Claus Nissen...

The Five Obstructions
Title: The Five Obstructions
Character: The Perfect Man (from Det perfekte menneske) (archive footage)
Released: November 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.
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Title: The Chosen 7
Character: Viceværten
Released: September 2, 2001
Type: TV
The couple of Rikke and Bo feel very lucky when they offer them a huge but dilapidated luxury apartment in Copenhagen. To pay for the necessary renovations they look for other partners to join the project, and so five new apparently perfect residents begin their new lives. But soon will strange and inexplicable events begin to happen?
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Title: Mit liv som Bent
Character: George, Bents far
Released: March 26, 2001
Type: TV
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The Blue Monk
Title: The Blue Monk
Character: Fredrik
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
The waitresses at a Copenhagen bar find themselves listening to and advising various clients who wander in to unburden their current problems. The Blue Monk is so named because its jukebox constantly plays music by jazz musician Thelonius Monk. ...The Blue Monk
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The Kingdom II
Title: The Kingdom II
Character: Jensen
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
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The Kingdom
Title: The Kingdom
Character: Jensen
Released: November 24, 1994
Type: Movie
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.
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Family Matters
Title: Family Matters
Character: The Taxidriver
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him.
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Russian Pizza Blues
Title: Russian Pizza Blues
Character: Claus
Released: December 18, 1992
Type: Movie
Four parallel stories about a Russian and his daughter trying to get to his wife's Russian Pizza House in New York, but they are stranded in Copenhagen. A girl getting married. A man finding his brother and starting a new life in the city. Two men working at a bridge. And it's all happening the same night.
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Superdame
Title: Superdame
Released: November 17, 1991
Type: Movie
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Notes on Love
Title: Notes on Love
Character: Forfatteren / The Writer
Released: October 9, 1989
Type: Movie
Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with love as their first and final subject. For example, how a tropical island woman prepares for a meeting with her lover. The film was shot partly in the South Pacific with more than a nod to social anthropoliogist B. Malinowski's historical work The Sexual Life of Savages.
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Title: Johansens sidste ugudelige dage
Character: Lars Johansen
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
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Isolde
Title: Isolde
Released: March 17, 1989
Type: Movie
After librarian Isolde attempts suicide, she leaves her politician husband for a younger student with a dark past. Isolde's former husband, however, has something else in mind for the young man.
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The Fight For The Red Cow
Title: The Fight For The Red Cow
Released: November 27, 1987
Type: Movie
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Title: Sådan er det bare
Character: Tjener
Released: April 2, 1987
Type: TV
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Walter and Carlo, Part II, Yes, It's Daddy
Title: Walter and Carlo, Part II, Yes, It's Daddy
Released: November 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Coffee has been outlawed and an organization of retired people smuggle coffee from the Swedish mafia, while Walter pursues his new love interest and Carlo deals with a midlife crisis after being dumped by his girlfriend.
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Barndommens gade
Title: Barndommens gade
Released: November 7, 1986
Type: Movie
I en lille 2-værelses baggårdslejlighed, på Vesterbro i København, bor den 14 årige Ester (Sofie Gråbøl) sammen med faderen (Torben Jensen), moderen (Vigga Bro) og storebroderen Carl (Carl Quist Møller). Det er tidens typiske arbejderkvarter og lejligheden er uden nogen form for moderne bekvemmeligheder. Koks skal hentes i en mørk kælder, hvor hjemløse har søgt ly og logi for natten. Ester er en drømmer. Hendes ønske er at blive forfatter og hun skriver digte i det skjulte. Hun glemmer ofte tid og sted, når hendes tanker går på langfart.
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Take It Easy
Title: Take It Easy
Released: March 21, 1986
Type: Movie
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Forræderne
Title: Forræderne
Released: October 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Two Danish youngsters see action in the USSR as volunteers in a special legion under German command in 1944-45. Returned to a camp in their native country, they go AWOL, having first killed a couple of officers. They are now being chased through a wintry Denmark by the German Army, Danish Quislings and the Danish freedom fighters. Love crosses their path when they take a Jewish girl as hostage.
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Title: Opfinderkontoret
Character: Opfinder
Released: May 8, 1982
Type: TV
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The Olsen Gang Long Gone
Title: The Olsen Gang Long Gone
Character: Bodyguard (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Criminal genius Egon Olsen presents his accomplices Benny and Keld with yet another infallible plan that can only end badly. The booty is a red suitcase containing values ​​worth five million. The sinister mastermind Bang-Johansen carries the suitcase. The Olsen Gang follows him to Paris, where they put their cunning and carefully organized plan into motion.
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Stepping Out
Title: Stepping Out
Character: Fritz
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Individually divorced and disillusioned, Jens and Karen meet and are drawn towards each other, but how does one go about courtship in a natural way, let alone a tangible relationship, in a time and age of general wisdom on every bookshelf? Surrounded by marital misfits and ex-partners, Jens and Karen give love a half-chance nonetheless.
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Jeppe på Bjerget
Title: Jeppe på Bjerget
Character: Peder Hammer Lakaj
Released: February 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Jeppe på bjerget is a 1981 Danish film directed by Kaspar Rostrup and based on a play by Ludvig Holberg. It won three Bodil Awards : Best Film, Best Actor (for Buster Larsen) and Best Supporting Actor (for Kurt Ravn).
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Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
Title: Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
Character: Mr. Strong
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Little Virgil lives in a henhouse with his best friend Oscar, a one-legged rooster. Virgil's worst enemy is Orla, the local bully-boy. When a circus comes to town, Virgil hires on as the Human Cannonball's apprentice. The role is a perfect fit, and ugly, evil Orla finally gets his comeuppance.
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Holidays in jail
Title: Holidays in jail
Character: Postbud
Released: October 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Fængslende feriedage is a 1978 Danish family film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Jørgen Ryg. It was also Dirch Passer's final film.
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The Olsen Gang Goes to War
Title: The Olsen Gang Goes to War
Character: Man at Beer Machine (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hand at some important documents which could both make him rich and take care of Denmark's future.
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Girls at Sea
Title: Girls at Sea
Character: Banjemester
Released: September 16, 1977
Type: Movie
Women have joined the military in Denmark but may still not serve in the navy. This makes the lives of the sailors difficult when three women get trapped on board of a navy vessel do to an surprise exercise at sea. Trying to hide the three women leads to comical situations.
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Title: The Fishermen
Character: Anton Knopper
Released: February 13, 1977
Type: TV
A mini series based upon the book by Hans Kirk.
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The Olsen Gang Sees Red
Title: The Olsen Gang Sees Red
Character: Mathias Gali
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the vase with a cheap Hong Kong copy. One attempt is made during the barons hunting party, where Egon ends up being bricked up in the catacombs. In another attempt, the gang has to coordinate breaking through several walls at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen with the "Elverhøj" overture.
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Dummy Partner
Title: Dummy Partner
Character: Holger
Released: August 27, 1976
Type: Movie
The last part of the trilogy about the Vesterbro Root Per, which differs from "The Flight" (1973) and "Per" (1975) by being more comedy. Per has become socially adapted, he gets married and gets permanent work. In his rise live two originals, Kasper and his blind friend Holger, who are busy revealing housing fraud in the neighborhood.
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Den dobbelte mand
Title: Den dobbelte mand
Released: April 19, 1976
Type: Movie
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Hjerter er trumf
Title: Hjerter er trumf
Released: March 19, 1976
Type: Movie
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Bejleren - en jysk røverhistorie
Title: Bejleren - en jysk røverhistorie
Character: Røver
Released: August 8, 1975
Type: Movie
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Good and Evil
Title: Good and Evil
Released: May 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of tableaux of Life in Denmark, he carries absurdism to a happy extreme. To act out his minuscule non-dramas, he uses a motley crew of professional actors like Ghita Nørby and Claus Nissen, writer Dan Turéll plus a snake charmer, a bicycle racer and a circus queen.
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Brudstykker af en landsbydegns dagbog
Title: Brudstykker af en landsbydegns dagbog
Character: Ridefoged
Released: April 27, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Son from Vingaarden
Title: The Son from Vingaarden
Character: Søren Pallesen
Released: February 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Vingården står foran nedrivning. Det er nu 30 år siden onkel Olsen døde og gården må efter 30 år sælges, hvis ingen i familien Martin ønsker at købe den. Da der ankommer en dansk-amerikaner til den lille by, sætter Jacobsen Nicoline til at undersøge den fremmedes værelse. Erik Hein, født Martin, forsøger at købe Vingården men forhindres. I stedet køber han Sophienberg. Eriks far har for mange år siden skrevet under på en tilståelse om underslæb mod Vingården. Erik tror på sin fars uskyld og får hjælp til at bevise farens uskyld af nogle af byens retskafne beboere.
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Me, Too, in the Mafia
Title: Me, Too, in the Mafia
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Mafiaen, det er osse mig er en dansk komediefilm fra 1974 og en fortsættelse af Mig og Mafiaen. Filmen har manuskript af Lise Nørgaard og er instrueret af Henning Ørnbak.
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Syg og Munter
Title: Syg og Munter
Character: Mand på værtshus
Released: April 25, 1974
Type: Movie
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Rapportpigen
Title: Rapportpigen
Released: February 11, 1974
Type: Movie
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Tilløkke Herbert!
Title: Tilløkke Herbert!
Character: Erling
Released: January 22, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Hour of Parting
Title: The Hour of Parting
Character: Neighbor
Released: November 9, 1973
Type: Movie
A man is fired from his office job and at the same time he has a suspicion that his wife is cheating on him. The movie follows the desperate and dramatic reactions that the man makes up in his mind.
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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Title: The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1973
Type: Movie
When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.
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In Your Dad's Pocket
Title: In Your Dad's Pocket
Released: March 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Stine is now eleven and her life and world in a Copenhagen suburb's modern social housing is portrayed in episodes around her family, friends and school.
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Præsten i Vejlby
Title: Præsten i Vejlby
Released: September 11, 1972
Type: Movie
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The Mind Snatchers
Title: The Mind Snatchers
Character: Army Psychiatrist
Released: June 28, 1972
Type: Movie
A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.
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Z.P.G.
Title: Z.P.G.
Character: Guard
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.
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How to Behave in a Fourposter Bed
Title: How to Behave in a Fourposter Bed
Released: February 4, 1972
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant woman goes undercover into a mansion where a couple maintains a school to teach young women how to catch a man... Especially if they are rich and into marriage. The courses include a number of disciplines, including judo and strip-tease.
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Pelsen
Title: Pelsen
Character: Betjent
Released: October 30, 1971
Type: Movie
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Tjærehandleren
Title: Tjærehandleren
Character: Nikolaisen, pengeafpresser
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Audun’s son is killed in an accident while the mother is in bed with her lover. Ten years later is Audun on the road living as a salesman and on the lone women that he meet and steal money from.
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Collective Marriage
Title: Collective Marriage
Character: George
Released: June 9, 1971
Type: Movie
A married couple is having sexual difficulties. The husband acquiesces in his wife's having a lover who visits her every Friday. The lover participates in a collective living arrangement, where sex as well as household chores are shared. Thinking that they will benefit from a similar scheme, the couple starts their own collective. However, the wife dislikes it when her husband begins to spend time with a younger woman in the collective, and the collective frowns on her having an outside relationship (her Friday lover).
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Deadline
Title: Deadline
Character: Jørgen
Released: April 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A terrifying drama about what might happen in a disaster situation. An airplane loaded with bacteriological weapons crashes in the south of Sweden, causing an epidemic.
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Exit
Title: Exit
Character: Lou
Released: April 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Young Maria lives her upper class life in the shadow of her husband Carl, and gets pregnant. She doubts her value as a wife, and is drawn to a couple of other less respectable men., which leads to a crisis.
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Ska' vi lege skjul?
Title: Ska' vi lege skjul?
Released: March 23, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Only Way
Title: The Only Way
Character: Lassens assistent
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark s valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death!
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Smil Emil
Title: Smil Emil
Character: Thomas
Released: December 26, 1969
Type: Movie
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We Are All Demons
Title: We Are All Demons
Character: Asthor Asbjörnsen
Released: June 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches the passing of doomed ships, the niece awakens in her uncle's cabin. She makes him marry her but never allows the tyrannical captain to ever touch her. For eight years, the ship never docks as the malnourished crew wishes for death.
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Helle for Lykke
Title: Helle for Lykke
Released: June 27, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Olsen Gang
Title: The Olsen Gang
Character: Polizist auf Motorrad (2. von links in der Scheune) (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1968
Type: Movie
The first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gang in Denmark and eventually Europe by stealing a famous Bavarian work of art currently displayed in a Copenhagen museum. Although Egon's plan works out fine, there is only trouble ahead for the little gang.
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Det var en lørdag aften
Title: Det var en lørdag aften
Character: Tom
Released: June 27, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Perfect Human
Title: The Perfect Human
Character: The Perfect Man
Released: June 14, 1968
Type: Movie
An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.
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Title: Ka' De li' østers
Character: Underbo
Released: September 9, 1967
Type: TV
A crime-series in six parts. A woman has been killed in a apartment. The murder squad are on the case.
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Hvad med os?
Title: Hvad med os?
Character: Frederik
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: Movie