Dirch Hartvig Passer (18 May 1926 - 3 September 1980) was a celebrated Danish actor. He was greatly renowned for his improvisational skills and, with a filmography comprising 110 movies, one of Denmark's most prolific actors. When he was young, Passer was very shy, and had a dream of becoming an actor, but consented to his father's wishes by attending J. Lauritzen's sea training school near Svendborg in 1944.

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  • Dirch Hartvig Passer (18 May 1926 - 3 September 1980) was a celebrated Danish actor. He was greatly renowned for his improvisational skills and, with a filmography comprising 110 movies, one of Denmark's most prolific actors. When he was young, Passer was very shy, and had a dream of becoming an actor, but consented to his father's wishes by attending J. Lauritzen's sea training school near Svendborg in 1944. But since he had ongoing problems with seasickness, he later started at De frederiksbergske teatres Elevskole. During the 1950s he formed a duo with his colleague and friend Kjeld Petersen. Their revue sketches, based upon the contrast between Petersen’s mixture of joviality and desperate anger and Passer’s deadpan responses, are still classics. The sudden death of Kjeld Petersen in 1962 led Passer to avoid revues for some years, but he built up an individual reputation and in 1967 he returned to the revue gaining new victories. Many thin jokes in the scripts were greatly improved by his performance. In particular, his many amiable eccentrics and “nature experts” together with his sketch roles as a baby and as a nonsense "Russian"-speaking clown made him famous. From his later years must be mentioned an almost silent sketch in which he portrays a man’s vain attempt to stop smoking (also shown in West German TV). It was told that he could speak any language, however he wouldn't understand any of it, which was one of his good qualities. He was often referred to as a loud actor in spite of the fact that under-acting was responsible for much of his force. A Danish critic, Jens Kistrup, once said that one of the secrets behind the comedy of Passer was its combination of elements that are normally regarded as incompatible. He possessed noisiness and discretion, loudness and quietness, boundlessness and complete control, craziness and softness — all this combined with a special intimacy with the audience. Among his inspirations he mentioned Joe E. Brown but he was also known for his admiration of the British comedian Tommy Cooper. In his films, which were of very mixed quality, he often played kind and somewhat crazy "Everymen" or antiheroes. Among his best movie roles were stage roles transferred to film; here must be mentioned the hero in Charley’s Aunt (1959), Celestin-Floridor in Frøken Nitouche (1963) and Leopold in Summer in Tyrol. Numerous Danish actors see him as a role model. In day-to-day life he was quite shy in behaviour, somewhat the opposite of his theatrical appearances. He died on stage during a sketch in which he was portraying the Danish rock singer Kim Larsen.
  • Dirch Hartvig Passer var en populær dansk skuespiller og komiker. I årene 1955–1962 opptrådte han i komikerduoen Kellerdirk Bros sammen med Kjeld Petersen, og dette bidro til å befeste hans posisjon som en av Danmarks mest populære revystjerner. Dirch Passer medvirket også i en lang rekke danske filmer. Passer ble 4. mars 1950 gift med skuespillerkollegaen Sigrid Horne Rasmussen. Paret fikk en datter. I mai 1956 ble de separert, og i 1959 fikk de innvilget skilsmisse. Etter et forhold med sangerinnen Inge Østergaard ble han sammen med skuespillerinnen Judy Gringer, som han møtte på ABC Teatret. De levde i samboerskap til 1963. Samme år flyttet Passer sammen med reklametegneren Hanne Bjerre Pedersen. De fikk en datter i 1966 og giftet seg i 1970. Også dette ekteskapet endte i skilsmisse, i 1976. Passer flyttet samme år sammen med Bente Askjær. Den 3. september 1980 opptrådte Passer på Tivolirevyen, mens samboeren satt i sufflørboksen. Under forestillingen falt han om, og han ble erklært død kort tid etter. Han hadde da levd med et enormt arbeidspress i flere år, og hadde også et stort alkoholkonsum. Passers to søstre Kirsten og Marchen er også skuespillere.
  • Dirch Passer född Dirch Hartvig Passer 18 maj 1926 i Köpenhamn, död 3 september 1980, dansk skådespelare, manusförfattare. Efter realexamen skrev Passer in sig på J. Lauritzens Søfartsskole, men hoppade av utbildningen för att studera drama vid Frederiksbergske teatres Elevskole. Han framträdde framför allt som revyartist med ett högt tempo men med perfekt timing. Han jobbade mycket med en stor publikkontakt och var mycket folkkär. Han medverkade i drygt 135 filmer, varav några var svenska. Han dog av en hjärtinfarkt mitt under en teaterföreställning.
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  • Dirch Passer (right) with composer Aage Stentoft
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  • Dirch Hartvig Passer (18 May 1926 - 3 September 1980) was a celebrated Danish actor. He was greatly renowned for his improvisational skills and, with a filmography comprising 110 movies, one of Denmark's most prolific actors. When he was young, Passer was very shy, and had a dream of becoming an actor, but consented to his father's wishes by attending J. Lauritzen's sea training school near Svendborg in 1944.
  • Dirch Hartvig Passer var en populær dansk skuespiller og komiker. I årene 1955–1962 opptrådte han i komikerduoen Kellerdirk Bros sammen med Kjeld Petersen, og dette bidro til å befeste hans posisjon som en av Danmarks mest populære revystjerner. Dirch Passer medvirket også i en lang rekke danske filmer. Passer ble 4. mars 1950 gift med skuespillerkollegaen Sigrid Horne Rasmussen. Paret fikk en datter. I mai 1956 ble de separert, og i 1959 fikk de innvilget skilsmisse.
  • Dirch Passer född Dirch Hartvig Passer 18 maj 1926 i Köpenhamn, död 3 september 1980, dansk skådespelare, manusförfattare. Efter realexamen skrev Passer in sig på J. Lauritzens Søfartsskole, men hoppade av utbildningen för att studera drama vid Frederiksbergske teatres Elevskole. Han framträdde framför allt som revyartist med ett högt tempo men med perfekt timing. Han jobbade mycket med en stor publikkontakt och var mycket folkkär.
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