Jørgen Buckhøj
Birthday: Born in 1935-01-10 in Aarhus, Danmark
Deathday: 1994-04-14
Jørgen Buckhøj was a Danish actor, working on stage, TV and film. He is best known as the title character Mads Skjern in Matador. He appeared in 38 films between 1953 and 1977.
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Ka' De li' østers
Character: Danielsen
A crime-series in six parts. A woman has been killed in a apartment. The murder squad are on the case....
Gøngehøvdingen
Character: Præsten
About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658....
Huset på Christianshavn
Character: Arkitekt Christensen
The series follows the residents of an apartment building on Copenhagen's Christianshavn, as they go about their daily lives and challenges. There is Olsen, a mover with an old fashion view of the world, Clausen who runs the local pet shop, Egon the career focused assistant, their wives who work hard to keep their spouses lives together, the young couple Tue and Rikke who recently moved in, the hard working caretaker Meyer, who never puts in to much effort, and of course Emma, the innkeeper of R...
Huset på Christianshavn
Character: Fuldmægtig Vinter
The series follows the residents of an apartment building on Copenhagen's Christianshavn, as they go about their daily lives and challenges. There is Olsen, a mover with an old fashion view of the world, Clausen who runs the local pet shop, Egon the career focused assistant, their wives who work hard to keep their spouses lives together, the young couple Tue and Rikke who recently moved in, the hard working caretaker Meyer, who never puts in to much effort, and of course Emma, the innkeeper of R...
Smuglerne
Character: Holm
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Strandvaskeren
Character: Mand i varehus
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Matador
Character: Mads Andersen-Skjern
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the b...
Obs 86 - Show
Character: Sig selv
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Landsbylægen
Character: Fyrmester Bang Jensen
The old doctor, Dr. Bonnesen, is a tired old man. He wants to sell his practice and has been corresponding with the young doctor Jens Winther. Jens arrives in Fjorslev to discuss a possible takeover of Bonnesen's practice and his patients. Bonnesen's beautiful young housekeeper, Anne Mette Krogh, welcomes him. Bonnesen takes a liking to Jens Winther and makes him an offer he cannot refuse....
Ved Kongelunden...
Character: Sporvognspassager
The good people of a small community in the countryside near Copenhagen enjoy life and find their way to love....
Sorte Shara
Character: Neptun
Based on a true story from the fateful day of August 29, 1943, when the Germans disarmed the Danish army and navy. The minesweeper MS 1 plays the leading role in the film about the ship that refused to surrender. The commander, Captain U.H. Gad, camouflaged the boat as a tugboat under the name 'Sorte Shara'. With Sweden as its destination, the boat set sail and experienced hours of excitement as it approached the German observation posts....
Gudrun
Character: Manne
Danish drama about a young woman's rites of passage in finding romance....
Værelset
Character: Breiteille
The married couple Pierre and Eva live in a conventional middle-class environment, but Pierre increasingly feels alienated from people and things....
Father of Four: The Whole Shebang
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Tiny Per has come of school age, and he has certainly not become any duller. He has joined a soccer team and they must play against the Swedes....
Sin Alley
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A fresh faced country boy comes to Copenhagen looking for a job and falls in with a group of hoodlums who use him as bait to lure older gay men they can rob and blackmail....
Jetpiloter
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Two brothers, Ras and Jan, have always been together during the long training to become jet pilots in the Danish Airforce. They both join squadron 793, where they will serve on active duty under the the young and very energetic squadron leader, Captain Tom Jessen....
Friends at Arms: On Autumn Exercises
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The old comrades are called up for three weeks of autumn maneuvers. They are usually more interested in beer, girls, and cheerful music, but Sergeant Vældegaard is determined to scrape the civilian rust off the "boys." Their old friends from their days as recruits have remained in the system as platoon leaders and sergeants, respectively, but that does not dampen the fun. In the heat of battle, the schoolteacher finds time to flirt with his Lotte Corps colleague Birthe....
I kongens klæ'r
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Kjeld Petersen plays a merchant who has stolen his clothes when he is out take a dip in the Sound. He stopped by the police, and they find a call to military service in his pocket, after further complications lands him at the barracks, where he came under the loving care of 66 (Dirch compatible) and 65 (Ove Sprogø). So the stage is set for lots of fun and games, in the right old style....
Six Kids and the Honeymooners
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Erik and Lisbeth are getting married and then honeymoon to Austria. When Mom and Dad need to have another baby, the four small decides to go on the honeymoon as well. They hide in the caravan and come unseen to Austria. Since they do not have passports, Erik can not just send them home. The children are only listed in their mother's passport and she is in the hospital giving birth. Lisbeth and Erik have to take care of the kids. It provides a lot of fun entanglements between the wedding couple a...
The Key to Paradise
Character: Luftkaptajn
An unconventional parish priest runs a highly successful travel agency. The chairman of the parish council plots against him, and his problems are compounded when, during a trip to the Costa del Sol, he meets Gaby, a girl he has been in love with in several previous lives....
Skibet er ladet med
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"The ship is loaded with" four angry young men, an original skipper, a fashion model, a radio station, a pirate flag and various musical instruments. And the ship is at anchor in international waters and can not sail forward or backward. On the other hand it can emit radio advertising, and it does....
Dust for all the Money
Character: Rundviser på spritfabrikken
A group of residents in the Copenhagen suburb of Solvænget decide to buy a farm in order to become self-sufficient in vegetables and other goodies. Unfortunately, farm life turns out to be much more strenuous and difficult than the small group of city dwellers had imagined....
Father of Four: In the Snow
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Ib Schønberg is again the kindly father - and now he is crowned "the ideal driver". This means that he can take all his four children to winter holiday in Norway....
Syg og Munter
Character: Socialrådgiver
Arntsen takes things and people around him too seriously, and has therefore been awarded a disability pension. And he is not exactly clairvoyant either. But that may come, and often with female help from, for example, Vaskemutter, for whom he does the laundry, or Mette, who has her own problems and accepts him as he is – even without clothes....
Anne og Paul
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Paul is a calm and sympathetic lawyer who senses from the outset that his wife Anne has found herself a boyfriend. But he doesn't say anything—not until she says something....
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Character: Anders Gløk-Jensen
When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with hilarious results....
Pretty-Arne and Rosa
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Denmark, 1967. In the midst of a cultural renaissance, all cultured people want to support Danish cinema, especially when it receives funding from the film fund to shoot scenes on location in a bank. The respectable bankers naturally agree to play extras in their own bank and be a little cultured for just one evening. No one suspects that the film's script is the work of "Grosserer Nielsen" from Vesterport, alias "Smukke Arne." No one suspects why "Karate Smutti" is having a field day teaching p...
Gengæld
Character: Eigil Thomsen
In one of Copenhagen's suburbs stands a large house, a villa-like property. The house is owned by the widow Elise Thomsen, who lives on the ground floor with her adult son, Eigil. Mrs. Thomsen rents out most of the villa. On the first floor lives the author Stefan Donner with his wife Lili and their 9-year-old son, Peter. Donner is talented but poor. The financial pressure on him and his family is getting on his nerves....
Bella
Character: Bilforhandler
Bella is surrounded by external security, comfort, and expensive luxury. In her cold, unconnected everyday life, she randomly meets 20-year-old hippie Jacob. They share a sense of loneliness....
Think of a Number
Character: Kriminalbetjent
The story opens just before Christmas, when solitary, apathetic bank clerk Flemming Borck uncovers a plot to rob his bank. After doing a little rookie recon, Borck identifies the would-be bank robber as a faux shopping-mall Santa Claus, and counter-plots to steal the money himself and let Santa take the blame. This works out about as badly as you might imagine, and our bumbling protagonist spirals further and further away from the carefree, laconic lifestyle he had hoped to ensure for himself....
6-Day Race
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Semi documentary on a famous cycle race in Copenhagen. The story is about the competition between the riders as well as about their private and marital struggles....