Otto Brandenburg
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Born | Hejnsvig, Denmark | 4 September 1934
Died | 1 March 2007 Copenhagen, Denmark | (aged 72)
Years active | 1953–2000 |
Otto Herman Max Brandenburg (4 September 1934 – 1 March 2007) was a Danish musician, singer and actor.[1]
Career[]
Music and Theatre[]
He debuted in 1955 in the ensemble Four Jacks, but quickly became a soloist producing Danish rock. He then adapted his pop songs to folk music and jazz and became a popular actor. Brandenburg released records in Sweden and Germany under the name "Ole Brandenburg". In 1960, he unsuccessfully participated in the Dansk Melodi Gran Prix with the song "To Lys På Et Bord" (two lights on one board). In 1969, he began a new musical direction, setting his own lyrics to an American melody in the Christmas song "Søren Banjomus."
In the 1970s he often worked with actress Vivi Bak. In the 1980s he collaborated with songwriters Halfdan Rasmussen and Evert Taube.
Film[]
Brandenburg won a Bodil award in 1978 for his role in [2][3] and again in 1982 for "Gummi Tarzan".[4][5]
Brandenburgs sidste arbejdsopgave var som hanbjørnen (stemme) i tegnefilmen Drengen der ville gøre det umulige fra 2002.
Brandenburg sang "You've Got a Friend in Me" in the Danish dub of Toy Story.
Filmography[]
- Styrmand Karlsen (1958)
- Sømand i knibe (1960)
- Mine tossede drenge (1961)
- (1962)
- Don Olsen kommer til byen (1964)
- (1969)
- Guld til præriens skrappe drenge (1971)
- Bennys badekar (1971)
- (1971)
- (1971)
- Med kærlig hilsen (1971)
- (1972)
- Man sku' være noget ved musikken (1972)
- Lenin, din gavtyv (1972)
- Mig og Mafiaen (1973)
- (1974)
- (1974)
- (1975)
- Familien Gyldenkål (1975)
- Piger i trøjen (1975)
- (1976)
- Spøgelsestoget (1976)
- (1976)
- (1976)
- Strømer (1976)
- Julefrokosten (1976)
- (1977)
- (1977)
- Pas på ryggen, professor (1977)
- (1978)
- Mig og Charly (1978)
- Trællene (1978)
- (1979)
- (1979)
- Next Stop Paradise (1980)
- (1981)
- (1981)
- (1981)
- (1982)
- (1982)
- (1982)
- (1986)
- (1988)
- (1989)
- Sort høst (1993)
- Riget I (1994)
- Riget II (1997)
- (1998)
- (1999)
- (2000)
- (2000)
- (2000)
References[]
- ^ "Otto Brandenburg – dansk film database". www.danskefilm.dk. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ Hammer, T.B. (1991). International Film Prizes: An Encyclopedia. Garland reference library of the humanities. Garland. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-8240-7099-1. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "1979". Bodilprisen (in Danish). 19 October 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Hør, var der ikke en som lo?". www.dfi.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Bodil Awards (1982)". IMDb. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
External links[]
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- 2007 deaths
- 20th-century Danish singers
- 20th-century male singers
- Best Actor Bodil Award winners
- Danish film score composers
- Danish male film actors
- Danish male singers
- Male film score composers
- People from Billund Municipality
- Best Supporting Actor Bodil Award winners
- Danish actor stubs
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