Arthur Jensen
Arthur Jensen was originally trained as a tailor and later educated at the Royal Theatre's student school 1920-23 and had an extensive theatre career. He experienced his heyday on television after passing the age of 70. He never achieved the same heights in film as he did in television, with roles such as caretaker Meyer in Huset på Christianshavn (1970-77) and clerk Schwan from Damernes Magasin in Matador (1978-81). With the exception of when he reprised the character of caretaker Meyer in Erik Balling's film version of the TV series, Ballade på Christianshavn (1971). It was his best film performance. He portrayed the two TV series characters shamelessly on his distinctive type: the comically aunty as caretaker Meyer and the sly and vain as clerk Schwan. What could have ended up as a gay caricature becomes human portraits in the garb of folk comedy, not least thanks to Arthur Jensen's humor, which at once shows solidarity and irony with the characters. It took a long time for Arthur Jensen to discovery who he was as an actor. After four silent film supporting roles at Fy&Bi, he formed a comedic duo with Ib Schønberg in several of Alice O'Fredericks' and Lau Lauritzen's energetic prank farces in the 1930s, but the fun is sporadic, and the inventions are often self-satisfied and infantile. His recurring role as a whiny spanking boy for the healthy guys in these films, including director Lauritzen himself, are particularly unfunny and almost unpleasant.
93 acting credits
Acting · 93
Matador
1978
The House at Christianshavn
1970
Jumpin' at the Bedside
1976
The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
1979
The Olsen Gang
1968
Bedside Romance
1973
Mifune
1999
Bedside Dentist
1971
Livsens ondskab
1972
Bedside Highway
1972
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
Erik Soya's 17
1965
Venus fra Vestø
1962
The Son from Vingaarden
1975
The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
1977
Fætrene på Torndal
1973
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
Flagermusen
1966
Nøddebo præstegård
1974
Ladies Man
1969
Five men and Rosa
1964
Boy of Two Worlds
1959
The Girl and the Press Photographer
1963
Bedroom Mazurka
1970
The Loose Tile
1966
Mord for åbent tæppe
1964
A Day at the Beach
1970
Strike First Freddy
1965
Den gamle mølle paa Mols
1953
Stormvarsel
1968
Nyhavns glade gutter
1967
The Moelleby affair
1976
Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
1980
I kongens klæ'r
1954
Jeppe på Bjerget
1981
Et eventyr om tre
1954
The Song of the Red Ruby
1970
The Tove Andersen Criminal Case
1953
Ud i den kolde sne
1934
Vandalism
1977
The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
1977
Girls at Sea
1977
Bussen
1963
The Man from Swan Farm
1972
Giftes - nej tak!
1936
Holidays in jail
1978
Jensen længe leve!
1965
Crazy Paradise
1962
Kristinus Bergman
1948
Hvad med os?
1963
Don Olsen kommer til byen
1964
It Happened in Copenhagen
1933
Our Home Is Our Castle
1971
Vi har det jo dejligt
1963
Familien Olsen
1940
Een blandt mange
1961
Incognito
1937
Dyden går amok
1966
Barken Margrethe
1934
The Mannequins
1929
Champagnegaloppen
1960
Fem raske piger
1933
Ta' lidt solskin
1969
Kidnapped
1935
Flaadens blaa matroser
1937
Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde
1976
Me and My Kid Brother
1967
Panserbasse
1936
Vores lille by
1954
Een pige og 39 sømænd
1965
Old Maids
1966
Den kloge mand
1956
Min søn Peter
1953
He, She and Hamlet
1932
Pretty-Arne and Rosa
1967
Stop Tyven!
1945
København, Kalundborg og -?
1934
Snushanerne
1936
To skøre ho'der
1961
Week-end
1935
Come to My Bedside
1975
En nat i Venedig
1969
Kristiane af Marstal
1956
Tretten Aar
1932
Bedside Sailors
1976
Utro
1966
Bag Københavns Kulisser
1935
Under byens tage
1938
Danmark for Folket
1937
Agent 69 in the Sign of Scorpio
1977
In the Sign of the Lion
1976
Agent 69 Jensen in the Sign of Sagittarius
1978
In the Sign of the Gemini
1975