Judy Gringer

Acting

Judy Gringer

Born 1941-01-23 · København, Danmark

Judy Gringer er datter af en jødisk skrædder i Bagsværd. Hun startede som balletelev på Det Kgl. Teater 1950-1955, men blev kasseret og drog i stedet på turné til Italien med Rita Clair-Balletten. Senere deltog hun som danserinde i Tivoli-revyen og efter medvirken i film kom hun i 1957 til ABC-Teatret, hvor hun var Lommer-pige i årene 1957-1964 og samtidig spillede på Aveny-Teatret. Her fik hun et gennembrud i samspil med Dirch Passer i succes-sketchen om "Babs og Nutte". Judy Gringer var fra 1964 freelance-skuespiller og spillede på de fleste københavnske teatre, bl.a. Fiolteatret og i provinsen. I sammenlagt tre år levede Judy Gringer som hippie i New York, hvor hun havde forskellige småjobs som babysitter og statist. Hun medvirkede også på revyscener bl.a. i Holstebro-Revyen. Hun sluttede sin scenekarriere i 1984 på Aveny Teatret i "Amalie Skram". Judy Gringer traf som 17-årig skuespilleren Dirch Passer som hun levede sammen med i fem år og senere i ti år med filminstruktøren Knud Leif Thomsen (2/9-1924 - 14/10-2003), med hvem hun har datteren Julie Gringer. Hun har også været gift med psykolog Bent Tage Truelsen, men dette ægteskab varede kun eet år. Hun medvirkede i en lang række populære spillefilm, bl.a. "Pigen og pressefotografen", "Fem mand og Rosa", "Gift", "Sådan er de alle", "Den gale dansker", "Lenin, din gavtyv" og "Julefrokosten" fra 1976 samt i TV-spillet "Farfar til hest".

Acting credits

Kid Gang on the Go poster
6.1

The last day of school before the summer, held farewell to the school year. Hurray a long summer ahead. Rikke joined the feminist and is demonstrating against marriage.

Kid Gang on the Go

1971

The Girl and the Press Photographer poster
6.7

Bastian and Lene are a good couple, as a journalist and press photographer. They take turns to get ideas for how to get a scoop for the magazine "Tit og Lyt". They agree to play husband and wife so that Bastian can get an apartment. Lene is deeply in love with Bastian why she gets their mutual friend Soren to send a man from the housing authority. He says that they most have one child to stay in the apartment.

The Girl and the Press Photographer

1963

Otto Is a Rhino poster
6.8

The boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and right away, you have a real rhino for a companion. A little heavy perhaps, when you live on the second floor. No matter, it's a modern fairy-tale of the baroque, and everything goes. Based on kiddie entertainment by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, but as was the case with the book, the fun is to be enjoyed by one and all.

Otto Is a Rhino

1983

The Heritage poster
5.7

Anders Refn's film adaptation of Gustav Wied's novel stars Jens Okking and Helle Hertz in the leading roles as Baron Helmuth and his wife Alvilda. The baron is deeply enamored with his wife, but she is repelled by his blunt and coarse nature and is drawn to her cousin, who fulfills her desire for passionate romance.

The Heritage

1978

Sømand i knibe poster
5.6

Eva comes to visit the ship, and when the alarm is raised and they are facing the sea, she hides in a cabin. This leads to various complications, not least because the admiral later come aboard.

Sømand i knibe

1960

Venom poster
5.8

An outsider with libertarian ideas invades and corrupts a bourgeois family.

Venom

1966

Julefrokosten poster
6.3

About the traditional celebration at Christmas. It is a safety valve, a cleansing bath that gives strength and zest for life well into the new year. "People meet" – and masks fall around the lavishly laid tables, where the director and the workers drink together. Local democracy works – and long-standing marriages falter! However, very few Christmas parties reach the same heights as the one enjoyed by the staff at Simonsens Bijouteri Fabrik.

Julefrokosten

1976

Sofies skolegang poster
NR

TV drama about Christen Kold and his ideas for independent schools, by Bent Grasten and Kirsten Stenbæk. The story is set in the village of Roemark in the latter half of the 19th century and recounts the events surrounding farmer Valdemar's establishment of the first independent school in Denmark, based on an idea conceived by Christen Kold.

Sofies skolegang

1977

Nu går den på Dagmar poster
9.0

A group of young actors, ambitious and naive, dream of their big breakthrough, criticize the theater school, want to revolutionize theater, and never compromise, but are very uncertain about the future and their own identity.

Nu går den på Dagmar

1972

Mine tossede drenge poster
6.7

Poul Henriksen is a bank teller, a man in his prime with a hobby of studying Napoleon. He is happily married to the lovely Mrs. Gerda, a devoted mother to their three children. She has long since learned that men always remain big boys, and she is therefore also a mother to her husband. Their son William is "something" in an office, which bores him terribly. Instead, he has thrown himself into jazz with fanatical zeal and dreams of becoming the greatest jazz musician of all time. William also has a girlfriend, Nina, who is enthusiastic about jazz and visits him at all hours of the day and night, which greatly concerns his parents. A conflict forces Poul to kick his son out of the house. This makes the parents unhappy, and on top of that, they have come to believe that William should have a child with Nina.

Mine tossede drenge

1961

Madklubben: Hjemme Igen poster
5.7

The three friends, Marie, Berling, and Vanja, are back home. They’ve moved in together in a large, beautiful house with high ceilings and a weekly dinner club. Marie is getting used to life as a newly divorced woman, the new grandmother Vanja takes care of both child and grandchild, while Berling has been forced into retirement. But with their usual impressive energy, the three women — led by Berling — decide to create Funen’s biggest local food festival! A decision that doesn’t go unnoticed, either within or around their small household.

Madklubben: Hjemme Igen

2025

In the Middle of the Night poster
6.7

Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.

In the Middle of the Night

1984

Mor skal giftes poster
6.3

How long should one continue to support one's adult, married, but well-spoiled children financially? One day, Mrs. Holm, a widow, grows tired of this and decides to cut off the flow of money. With the assistance of her good friend and admirer, she devises a plan that causes quite a stir. She is not alone in being unconventional in her approach to raising adults. In this regard, a festive old consul's wife and her quirky servant are also progressive. At first, they are somewhat distraught about how they will manage, but the whole affair works out for all the adult children and saves their marriages.

Mor skal giftes

1958

Five men and Rosa poster
5.7

In a hospital's five-bed room—room number 13—there are five very different men with very different backgrounds: District Court Judge Winther, fashion designer Philip André, bank teller Madsen, the incorrigible burglar Herluf "Smukke Arne" Jensen, and legation secretary Konrad Konradsen. The legation secretary has done something foolish and fallen into the clutches of the blackmailer Helmer Gamtofte. He is in possession of some compromising photographs, which he keeps in a safe deposit box at the bank where Madsen works. The camaraderie that develops in room 13 becomes the driving force that prompts the district court judge to suggest that "Smukke Arne" help Konradsen break into the bank and steal the photos.

Five men and Rosa

1964

Verdens rigeste pige poster
6.2

One dark night, a ravishing young girl flees from a convent boarding school in Switzerland. She is Lisa Hoffmann, daughter of a wealthy Danish-American oil magnate from Brazil, and she is running away with her sweetheart, the calypso singer Jacque. There is a huge uproar in newspapers around the world, and even more so when it turns out that the two young people are performing in cabarets around Europe's capital cities.

Verdens rigeste pige

1958

Selvmordsskolen poster
7.8

Bizarre satiric tale about an ordinary Danish man disappointed in life and the welfare system. Close to a total collapse he decides to take the easy way out. He seeks help at Doctor X, head of a suicide school that guarantees 100% efficiency.

Selvmordsskolen

1964

The Poet and the Little Mother poster
6.6

Poeten and Lillemor are making their living on his writing, but the general interest in modern poetry is low and their income very small. A creditor is dogging them, when a sudden bequest gives them some breathing-space. They buy an old house in a small village, where living is cheaper than in Copenhagen. The villagers are distrustful towards the newcomers. After a while the baker, the butcher and the grocer won't give Poeten and Lillemor credit anymore. Also the old creditor is back dogging them. Should Poeten renounce his high poetical standards and write simple verses for popular music, to get money?

The Poet and the Little Mother

1959

Dukkens død poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dukkens død

1972

Det er ikke appelsiner - det er heste poster
7.3

In inner Copenhagen, in the real old town, in greengrocer Mortensen's property right under Tagskægget, live three good friends: painter Richard Hansen, painter Steffen, sculptor Max, and their friend Louise Mørch. All three have something very boring in common: they are unknown and penniless. Suddenly, it seems that luck is smiling on them. Charlottenborg has accepted the painting that Richard submitted. Excited, he heads to the exhibition, only to discover that the selection committee has accepted the two packing box lids he used to protect his painting, lids that he uses every day to wipe his brushes on.

Det er ikke appelsiner - det er heste

1967

Syg og Munter poster
7.0

Arntsen takes things and people around him too seriously, and has therefore been awarded a disability pension. And he is not exactly clairvoyant either. But that may come, and often with female help from, for example, Vaskemutter, for whom he does the laundry, or Mette, who has her own problems and accepts him as he is – even without clothes.

Syg og Munter

1974

Crazy Paradise poster
4.2

Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.

Crazy Paradise

1962

Bedside Romance poster
4.7

A girl inherits a string of industrial concerns that will become bankrupt by the inheritance tax unless the girl marries the son of the owner of a competing industrial concern.

Bedside Romance

1973

The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote poster
5.2

The final film in the Gyldenkål trilogy. Following a financial downturn, Charles Gyldenkål decides to run for municipal office. After an unconventional election campaign, he is elected to the city council and becomes the deciding vote in the mayoral election.

The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote

1977

The Mad Dane poster
10.0

An adventurous Danish sailor falls in love with the beautiful French singer Christine in this romantic adventure. Chased by soldiers, he takes cover under beds and petticoats in order to escape capture. Several dance scenes highlight this musical comedy that uses a limited amount of sight gags.

The Mad Dane

1969