Benjamin Christensen Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Benjamin Christensen Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Benjamin Christensen (28 September 1879 â€" 2 April 1959) was a Danish

film director, screenwriter and an actor both in film and on the

stage. As a director he is most well known for the 1922 film Häxan

and as an actor, he is best known for his performance in the film

Michael (1924), in which he plays Claude Zoret, the jilted lover of

the film's title character.Benjamin Christensen was born in Viborg,

Denmark, the youngest of twelve children. He initially studied

medicine, but caught the acting bug and began studies at the Det

Kongelige Teater (Royal Danish Theatre) in Copenhagen in 1901.

Christensen's professional acting career began in Aarhus in 1907, but

after a short stint as actor he abandoned the stage in order to become

a wine salesman. In 1911, Christensen made his debut as a film actor;

all of his pre-directorial efforts are lost, but among such films was

Scenens børn (1913), the only motion picture directed by eminent

Norwegian playwright and stage director Bjørn Bjørnson.In 1913,

Christensen assumed control of the small, Hellborg-based production

company for which he worked and reorganized it as Dansk-Biograf

Kompagnie. The first film he directed, Det hemmelighedsfulde X (The

Mysterious X, 1914), was one of the most astonishing directorial

debuts in film history; although a routine spy melodrama, the

camerawork, cutting and art direction were revolutionary for the

period. Christensen himself played the main role, as he did in his

second film, Hævnens nat (Blind Justice, 1916). Once again,

Christensen portrayed a man wrongly accused of murder, and the

artistic quality of his sophomore effort was equal to his first.

Despite the success of his first two films, Christensen did not find

acceptance within the Danish film industry, and after Blind Justice he

returned to the stage.
Benjamin Christensen Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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