Gunnar Tolnæs
Encyclopedia
Gunnar Tolnæs was a Norwegian
-born film
actor
who worked for most of his career in Denmark
.
s, include:
Most of his work was for Nordisk Film
, a Danish film-production company.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
-born film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
who worked for most of his career in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
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Career
Tolnæs's film credits, all silent filmSilent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
s, include:
- Children of the StreetsChildren of the StreetsChildren of the Streets is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Lili Bech - Jenny* Emil Bergendorff* Stina Berg - Guest* Sven Bergvall - Young Journalist* Gustaf Callmén* John Ekman* Gunnar Tolnæs - Karl Sterner...
(1914) - One of the Many (1915)
- HimmelskibetHimmelskibet (film)Himmelskibet , Excelsior / A Trip to Mars / Das Himmelschiff is a 1918 Danish film about a trip to Mars. In 2006, the film was restored and re-released on DVD by the Danish Film Institute....
(also known as 400 Million Miles from Earth) (1918) - Sex in ChainsSex in ChainsSex in Chains , original German title Geschlecht in Fesseln, is a silent film directed by William Dieterle.-Plot:The film opens with Franz Sommer and his newlywed wife, Helene . They are going through hard times, and Sommer is without steady employment, partly due to his honest-to-a-fault nature...
(1928)
Most of his work was for Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film , established in Denmark in 1906 by Danish filmmaker Ole Olsen, is the oldest continuously operating film studio in the world. Olsen started his company in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby under the name "Ole Olsen's Film Factory" but soon changed it to the Nordisk Film Kompagni...
, a Danish film-production company.