Peter Gantzler
Birthday: Born in 1958-09-28 in Denmark
Deathday: Alive
Peter Gantzler is a Danish actor. He is married to actress Xenia Lach-Nielsen.
TV Credits
Hjerteflimmer
Character: Frederick
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Kald mig Liva
Character: Fritz Hueg
The life of the Danish revue singer Liva Weel (1897-1952), who became very beloved in a series of films. During the Nazi German occupation of Denmark she achieved further renown through the encouraging songs of Poul Henningsen....
Rita
Character: Niels Madsen
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults....
Tinka og Kongespillet
Character: Aamund
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Live fra Bremen
Character: Forskellige roller
Live from Bremen has been described as the successor to Casper and the Mandril Agreement, as the show has the Mandril Agreement's Lasse Rimmer and Lars Hjortshøj as permanent fixtures, as well as Casper Christensen as lead author and man of ideas. The show is broadcast live from Bremen, the former Private Theater in Copenhagen, and is followed by Casper Christensen's talk show ALOHA! sent from the same place. Live from Bremen is inspired by the American sketch and satire show Saturday Night Live...
Med på noderne
Character: Sig selv
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Hvorfor snakker vi ikke om mig?
Character: Boomer
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Sommerdahl
Character: Svend
A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør....
Gøngehøvdingen
Character: lejesoldaten
About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658....
Arvingerne
Character: Bestyrelsesformand
The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance....
Arvingerne
Character: Jensen
The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance....
Badehotellet
Character: Holger Scharff
At Andersen’s Seaside Hotel by the North Sea dunes, meet three young people as they try to emancipate themselves from the plans other people have made on their behalf....
Klovn
Character: Peter
Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being ...
Krøniken
Character: Viggo Valentin
Krøniken is a Danish television drama which aired on Sunday evenings between January 2004 and January 2007. The 22-episode series relates the lives of two fictional families during the historical development of the Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s. Created by Stig Thorsbøe for the DR broadcast-television network, the series debuted on 4 January 2004. The program's first season set popularity records. Five of the episodes were listed among the ten most watched televi...
Madsen & Co.
Character: Politimand
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Mercur
Character: Preben Borg
Denmark’s Radio Mercur became the first commercial offshore radio station to broadcast in Europe when it began transmitting from the ship Cheeta in international waters near Copenhagen in 1958. Inspired by true events, its journey from bold beginnings to eventual decline is now being reimagined through following the story of a group of passionate music enthusiasts. Their mission was to challenge the state-run radio monopoly by delivering fresh pop and rock ’n’ roll sounds to a youthful audience ...
Mørklægning
Character: Rune Wallenstrøm
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Nikolaj og Julie
Character: Lars
Copenhagen thirtysomethings Nikolaj and Julie struggle with marriage, baby and work, plus friends of varying maturity....
NamaStay
Character: Anker
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Rita
Character: Niels
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults....
Skjulte spor
Character: John Jensen
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Sygeplejeskolen
Character: Overlærer Nielsen
The lives of Erik and Anna, students at a nursing school in 1950s Denmark, a time and place where it was not normal for a man to become a nurse....
Taxa
Character: Mike Engholm / Taxa Mike
TAXA is a Danish television drama made by Danmarks Radio with 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumble Hammerich. The series revolves around a small taxi central, CrownTaxi, in Copenhagen. The series was a success from the start, 14 September 1997 on DR1. The series was broadcast during the period 1997-1999 for a total of five series. CrownTaxi has its ups and downs and in the course of the series, following the various drivers, radio opertor Lizzie and boss Verner Boye-Larse...
Tre ludere og en lommetyv
Character: Michael
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Borgen
Character: Jørgen Steen Andersen
40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible....
Sæt pris på Danmark
Character: Sig selv
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Tinkas Juleeventyr
Character: Rådsmand
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Tinkas Juleeventyr
Character: Rådmand
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Danske tv-seriers bedste
Character: Sig selv
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Jarls Quizshow
Character: Sig selv
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Lige i skabet
Character: Sig selv
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Klovn
Character: Gantzler
Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being ...
Sunday
Character: Peter
The trainer for FC Fredericia is sent to Kenya to find a talented player that can save the club....
Hånd i Hånd
Character: Bent
A love story about a 30 something couple on the edge of divorce. Through flashbacks told from the office of the couples’ counselor, we experience Anders and Lise’s relationship over the course of the past seven years....
Kald mig far
Character: Erik
Timid Emil and self-confident Viktor are lifelong friends and partners in a sustainable catering company. When Viktor begins dating Helle, Emil's mother, a highly unusual family face-off begins. Family relations, friendships, and partnerships are put to the ultimate test as Emil struggles to come to terms with his new "dad."...
Movie Credits
The Boss of It All
Character: Ravn
The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with the "Boss" face to face the owner has to hire a failed actor to play the part....
Fakiren fra Bilbao
Character: Florian Flambert
When two children move into an old house with their mother they find magical mystery involving a lively spirit and a precious diamond....
The Sun King
Character: Johannes
While changing the pipes in the tanningbeds at Golden Sun, Tommy meets the owner. A middleaged former Miss Fyn called Susse. Slowly an unusual love affair begins. Tommy's two friends Ole & Flemming give him tips on how to give Golden Sun some masculine appeal. Susse just happens to have a sleazy lawyer that does not appreciate the new look....
Moving Up
Character: Manfred Finnemann
A position opens up at the Institute of Psychology. Manfred, a faculty psychologist, jumps at the career opportunity of a lifetime, spurred on by his girlfriend, Therese, who is also a co-worker. Then a new psychologist joins the staff, jeopardising his plans. It pains Manfred, who bends over backwards to curry favour, no end to see his new colleague, Poul, win over the institute chairman with his smooth, easy-going style. It is time, Manfred figures, to tip the scales of justice....
Rose
Character: Bus-Ole
Over the course of a week, sisters Inger and Ellen find their relationship challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. Inger reveals her struggles with schizophrenia to the group, receiving both pity and discrimination. On arrival, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers....
Truth About Men
Character: Crime Boss
Mads moves into a house with his lovely girlfriend Marie when a sudden pang of doubt strikes him. Is this the meaning of life? Has he lived out all his dreams? He drops everything, moves away from his girlfriend and throws himself into a desperate quest to live out his greatest dreams; a quest to find the meaning of life and the one and only....
Just Like Home
Character: Erling
The tale of a troubled small town, and the brave few who made it their mission to keep the community together. As the citizens of a secluded Danish town gradually lose their trust in one and other, the sight of a naked man walking through town in the early hours of the morning sets off an unsettling wave of paranoia....
The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II
Character: Christian
In 1361 the Danish King Valdemar's troops approached the city walls of Visby, Gotland. Meanwhile, a young woman named Sigrid was leaving tracks all over the place leading to the whereabouts of a great treasure.She was able to fulfill her mission before being captured and immured alive in a tower, as punishment for not revealing the whereabouts of the treasure. Currently Kathrine, 14, and his three friends have to follow the tracks of 700 years ago during the Medieval Week celebration in Visby to...
The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar
Character: Christian
Danish brilliant pre-teen student Nis uses his summer holiday to learn Latin so he can properly study the Knights Templar inheritance on Bjornholm island from sources. His friends Mathias, a dumb jock, and Kathrine, who only comes to spend time wear her dad, who really wanted a boy, prefer childish fun, but get dragged in his quest for a treasure. Mats's strength, Kathrine's connections and even Nis's bratty kid sister's blunt remarks contribute to find out about two brotherhoods, heirs of 12th ...
One-Hand Clapping
Character: Anders
Svensson is a wealthy, aging blusterer who has just had a rather unusual funeral for his late wife and is now on his way to Spain with his cracker of a young mistress. But his trip is delayed when a lawyer turns up with a paternity suit. With a young undertaker as the new chauffeur at the wheel of his Jag, he sets off to confront the woman who claims to be the mother of his unknown daughter, turning his life and that of his companion upside down in the process....
The Judge
Character: Jens Christian Poulsen, formand for flygtningenævn
Jens Christian is a streamlined career man and newly appointed chairman of the Refugee Board. Work is the center of his life, and everything is going well until an adopted son announces his arrival and an unusually difficult asylum case lands on his desk. Suddenly, the right choice is no longer clear to Jens Christian, who is torn between obligations and emotions....
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
Character: Earl Ragnar
In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last....
Heartbreak
Character: Niels Jørgen
Albert and Sixten are getting married. Today. The only problem is that if they had been honest towards one another, they wouldn't even have been a couple. There are already tensions on the morning of their wedding day, and it quickly becomes clear that something is very wrong....
Pizza King
Character: Urobetjent
Friends Bobby and Junes have been hustling around Nørrebro for several years. Junes was once a talented boxer, but a violent crime conviction put an end to his promising career, and now he drifts around with no direction other than getting through the day and keeping his "business" going. Bobby, on the other hand, is determined to become something "big." In an attempt to win the respect of his powerful uncle, who is the leader of the organized Pakistani mafia in Copenhagen, Bobby is prepared to ...
Boy
Character: John
18-year old Christian has just graduated from high school. At his summer job he is seduced by the 36-year old single mother Sanne. Soon he is drawn into a world of sensuality and his acquaintance with Sanne turns into an intense love affair which forces Christian to deal with his newly discovered sides....
Empire
Character: The King
As a “free colored” woman, Anna Elizabeth Heegaard is wealthy and owns her own slaves when she begins a love affair with the Danish colony’s governor-general Peter von Scholten. During communal feasts, they discuss social reforms while a slave boy hangs above the table and cools the diners with a feather. And in the shadows, whispers begin of a slave revolt....
My Sister's Kids in the Snow
Character: Erik Lund
The whole family is going on a skiing holiday in Norway when Dad breaks his leg. So Uncle Erik takes the five oldest children. On the ferry, Amalie meets ski instructor Dan, and Uncle Erik gets very seasick. It turns out that Dad has rented a very small, leaky cabin, but Jan and Michael sort it out so they can move into a large suite. It turns out that it has been rented to Mrs. Flinth and her friends, and she causes a lot of trouble. The family is thrown out, but once again Jan and Michael fix ...
My Sister's Kids
Character: Erik Lund
Erik Lund is a professor in child psychology. When his sister and her husband go on vacation, he is left in charge of their five children. He really feels up to it, since he is now going to be able to try out his skills in child psychology. However, reality is something else than theory and children do not always do as they are supposed to, according to his book on child psychology. The children soon fool him into doing as they please when it comes to food and pleasures. However, soon they start...
33 Scenes from Life
Character: Adrian
The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but her husband Piotr is at rehearsals in Cologne and leaves her to cope with this difficult situation. Only her friend Adrian is at her side. Her father Jurek is also overwhelmed by the impending loss of his beloved wife. After the death of the mother her fat...
Excuse Me
Character: Steen the Great
A story about the beautiful but confused young woman Helene, who, according to her mother, was born as a 'technical error'. Helene suspects that her father, who left his family before Helene was born, might be the once celebrated director of a dilapidated theater in Copenhagen. Assisted by a series of bizarre coincidences and by her mother's dog (a creature in whose shadow Helene has always lived), Helene manages to get closer to her father....
Turn Right by the Yellow Dog
Character: Philip Hoffmann
A fair point, considering the father happens to be dead! Philip is a successful architect with little or no time for his 16-year-old son. When his own father dies, Philip suddenly realises the pain of having been abandoned years ago. Enter Karl, a charming old rogue who claims to have been a close friend of Philip's dad. Philip invites Karl to stay at his house, where Karl quickly becomes a surrogate father-figure for both Philip and his son. But just as Philip's mind starts to open, the truth a...
Esthers orkester
Character: Troels
Thomas has to take over his wife's job of conducting the family orchestra. Two fateful days intertwine. Both are imperfect, unpredictable, and beautiful in their very own way. In these two days, Thomas is confronted with 3 vital things....
The Birthday Trip
Character: Indehaver af kontaktbureau
When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with....
Nothing
Character: Eskildsen
Pierre Anthon and his classmates have just started 8th grade, when Pierre Anthon declares that life has no meaning, leaves school and moves up in a tree, refusing to come down. This sparks an existential crisis amongst his classmates. They decide to gather their most valuable belongings in a “heap of meaning” that will convince Pierre Anthon that he is wrong. A dangerous, disturbing, and controversial study of what really matters has begun....
One Step Behind
Character: HC
Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three friends and a fourth person, a young woman in a mental hospital....
Beatles
Character: Cecilies far
At long last, one of the most important novels in Norwegian history will be made into a film. Beatles relates the story of four Oslo boys born in 1951 and hooked on The Beatles, from the time they as seventh graders find themselves on the threshold of the adult world. The film is all about boyish pranks, hopes, disappointments, and of course about pretty girls, hopeless infatuations, drunkenness and parties. The world is changing, and so is the friendship between the boys. But the conclusion is,...
The Three Musketeers
Character: Aramis
A classic story known all over the world that has captured and thrilled generations of children and adults now in puppet animation format. With all of the sense of childish enthusiasm intact, this romantic story disguised as humour and farce will once again delight....
Danny's Doomsday
Character: Adam
Due to climate change a new race of flesh eating predators arise, who invade and eat everything living on earth. In a residential neighbourhood in a Danish suburb nightmare like scenes are being experienced first hand through the eyes of two teenage brothers, who can't stand each other, but are now suddenly forced to barricade themselves in the basement together, to avoid getting eaten. From one day to another, without parents and without electricity, food, water and contact to other people, the...
On Our Own
Character: Butiksbestyrer
Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them....
A Viking Saga: Son of Thor
Character: Askold
Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to see again....
Murder in the Dark
Character:
A womanizing journalist is on the outs with the cops who want him in jail and a mysterious "thin man" who wants him dead....
Nothing's All Bad
Character:
Follows the lives of four longing souls. Ingeborg who feels unattractive and young Jonas who is so attractive that he can literally sell some of what he's got. Anna, a young beautiful woman with a physical disability, and Anders, a tender man with a psychological disability. Four people yearning for love, four people, each hoping for a better tomorrow....
Big Plans!
Character:
BIG PLANS follows the petty and irresponsible crook Willy, who has a massive fondness for music. Though he's 38 years of age he will not give up his lifelong dream of becoming a famous musician. When he gets paroled he therefore decides to revive his old band to prove to his eight-year-old son, Mikkel, that he isn't the failure everyone thinks he is....
Long Story Short
Character: Rolf
The film follows a group of friends and their highs and lows in pursuit of romantic redemption. It takes place over three years and is divided into eight parties : New Year's Eve, one housewarming, Midsummer, a wedding, a surprise party, a name of celebration, anniversary and birthday parties. The friends are all late thirties or early forties. They fought all with their own idea of what the perfect love really is, and must re-evaluate their perception in the course of history....
Fest & Stress
Character: Bo
Insisting on staying at a cancelled bachelor party, a stressed man struggles to befriend the only other and very hostile guest, while the groom tries to win back his fiancée....
Rocking Silver
Character: Young Johnny
Old rockers, like soldiers, never die, they only pass away. Well, Erik Clausen turns nostalgia into a vivid tribute to the moods and manners of the 1950s Danish Rock'n Roll by picking up a group of dispersed fellow bandsmen from wherever life and fate have left them stranded to have them revive their group and relive the good old days. A spirit of social solidarity permeates throughout....
Gentlemen
Character: Fredrik
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers....
The Serbian Dane
Character: Erik Nikolajsen
Miniseries of 3 episodes of 50 minutes based on the bestseller by Leif Davidsen. Religious fanatics put a price on the head of the controversial Anglo-Iranian writer Sara Santanda. $ 4 million. Sarah decides to come out of hiding and face in Copenhagen. The uncomfortable visit for the government of Denmark triggered a great safety device. Meanwhile, somewhere in the troubled former Yugoslavia, a young man named Vuk (Serbian sniper does not kill for money but for ideology) accepted the task of ki...
Ninna
Character:
The comedy 'Ninna' is about the title character, who lives with her son Dennis in Præstø, where she also works at the local takeaway. When Dennis announces that he wants to move away from home after his 18th birthday, Ninna's world collapses. She therefore sets out a plan to get him back home. But along the way, Ninna must also revisit her own life and settle on the past. 'Ninna' is a comedy that addresses serious topics and treats them in a humorous light....
Operation Cobra
Character:
A family is held prisoner in their own house, when a summit conference is to be held in Nærum. The terrorist group has the plan of preventing this meeting and therefor capturing a family, and their house until the conference is held. Frederik, the main character, wants to stop them and with a little help from his friends, they try....
All I Want for Christmas
Character: Santa Claus
To be the first girl accepted into Santa school, twelve-year-old Lucia must find a cure for a mystery illness caused by the devilish Krampus....
Omveje
Character: Faren
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Help! I'm a Fish
Character: Father (voice)
Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish....
The Translator
Character:
A young girl has to be the adult in her family, when she and her mother bump their heads against a life-threatening bias in the Danish health system....
The Lone Killer
Character: PET Mand
On the same day as two terrorist attacks in Copenhagen, the newspaper owner and editor-in-chief of the 'Copenhagen Daily News', is trying to figure out how to save his family legacy....
Ballad of the Lost Gun
Character:
In a suburban town characterized by an unpopular no-drinking policy and a simmering atmosphere of misery, the drunken country sheriff wakes up with a raging hangover and a big problem: he's lost his revolver. In search of his missing revolver, the officer fights a futile battle to maintain control over the workers' drunkenness and a strange moped gang with evil intentions....
Anja & Viktor
Character: Tobias
Highschool sweethearts Anja and Viktor find themselves in a lesser state of love when Anja graduates and gets a job in the city....
What Remains
Character:
The story of a family gathered in a silent chapel, where tense feelings of regret, anger and old wounds come to surface. Grief pulls them apart, but it might also, unexpectedly, be the one thing that can bring them closer....
Hood
Character: Advokat Thomas
A determined CEO on the verge of a 250 million kroner exit must rally her co-founders-but when a betrayed partner fights back, a high-stakes power struggle forces her to question how far she'll go to win....
In China They Eat Dogs
Character: Franz
Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works....
Italian for Beginners
Character: Jørgen Mortensen
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement....
Dan Dream
Character: Advokat
A small group of eccentric pioneers join forces, in order to do the impossible and create world history in the early 1980s of Denmark...