Victor Borge

Acting

Victor Borge

Born — Died

1909-01-03 — 2000-12-23

Place of birth

København

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish- American comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as "The Clown Prince of Denmark", "The Unmelancholy Dane", and "The Great Dane". He was born in Copenhagen and started out as a classic concert pianist, having his first major concert in 1926. In 1933 he started his now famous "stand up" act, with the signature blend of piano music and jokes, and married American Elsie Chilton the same year. Borge started touring extensively in Europe, where he began telling anti-Nazi jokes. When Germany invaded Denmark on 9 April 1940, he was touring Sweden, and fled via finland to the USA with his American wife. Once in the USA,  he took the n…

Known for

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson poster
7.6

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

The Mike Douglas Show poster
5.8

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Merv Griffin Show poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

What's My Line? poster
7.0

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

What's My Line?

1950

The Dick Cavett Show poster
6.8

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

The Dick Cavett Show

1968

Tony Awards poster
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

Tony Awards

1956

Film credits

2000s · 11 titles

A Tribute to Victor Borge poster
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"A Tribute Victor Borge" celebrates the life and work of the beloved international humorist and musician. Victor Borge was born in Copenhagen in 1909 into a musical family.He was a child prodigy and began his perfrming carreer at a very early age. For more than eight decades, he has never been out of the spotlight.

A Tribute to Victor Borge

2008

Victor Borge: Then and Now, Vol. II poster
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Victor Borge's unique combination as musician and humorist has long made him a legend. Affectionately know as "The Great Dane", he is an ambassador of goodwill for both his native Denmark and his adopted America. This special new home video captures the magic moments from some of his early movies and TV shows and from live performances taped at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.

Victor Borge: Then and Now, Vol. II

2002

The Legendary Victor Borge poster
5.8

This program contains a collection of comedy and music by Victor Borge including such comedy bits as "The Timid Page Turner" and "Phonetic Punctuation." ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

The Legendary Victor Borge

2004

Lost Episodes of Victor Borge - Volume One poster
3.8

This DVD offers a collection of entertaining television moments from comedian/pianist Victor Borge that were thought lost. The disc contains a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack does what it can with the limited quality of the source materials. This is an excellent disc for those who count themselves fans of Borge's singular style, as well as for people looking for a title the whole family can enjoy.

Lost Episodes of Victor Borge - Volume One

2004

The Victor Borge Collection poster
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No synopsis available yet.

The Victor Borge Collection

2004

Lost Episodes of Victor Borge - Volume Two poster
7.0

This DVD offers a collection of entertaining television moments from comedian/pianist Victor Borge that were thought lost. The disc contains a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack does what it can with the limited quality of the source materials. This is an excellent disc for those who count themselves fans of Borge's singular style, as well as for people looking for a title the whole family can enjoy.

Lost Episodes of Victor Borge - Volume Two

2004

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Victor Borge: The Great Dane of Comedy"Victor Borge: The Great Dane Of Comedy" is a hilarious look at the comedy and music from the Borge vaults, featuring such classic comedy bits as "Count Fall-off-of", "Play Something On the Piano", "The Mozart Opera" and many more. Hailed as a child prodigy, Victor Borge began his performing career as a concert pianist in the 1920s. For eight decades he was never out of the spotlight. "The Great Dane", as the beloved international humorist and musician was known, was celebrated around world for his unique blend of comedy and music. Don't miss his one-liners, falls, double-takes, his mastery of piano variations and his outrageous stage antics. Victor Borge has been recognized as one of the funniest performers the world has ever known.

Victor Borge: The Great Dane of Comedy

2008

Victor Borge - In Concert & Encore poster
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Victor Borge, the master of musical wit, is captured at the height of his illustrious career in this London concert performance recorded in 1979. Performing with the Wren Orchestra in the Grand Hall of Wembley Conference Centre, Borge takes the musical mickey out of Chopin and the great composers in a laugh-out-loud spoof filled with his trademark double-takes and double-entendres.

Victor Borge - In Concert & Encore

2005

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Victor Borge: På hjemmebane

2006

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Victor Borge: Verdens Morsomste Mand

2009

Victor Borge's Funniest Moments poster
4.5

Here is a daffy dozen of Victor Borge's most beloved routines from more than a half-century onstage. Whether he's providing hilarious accompaniment to some very confused singers or demonstrating "Inflationarhy Language," there is only one thing you can be sure of: When Borge is onstage, anything can happen!

Victor Borge's Funniest Moments

2004

1990s · 4 titles

1930s · 5 titles

Der var engang en vicevært poster
6.0

Christensen is the caretaker of a property in the inner city. He is a bachelor and has taken in a poor little girl. The house is inhabited by ordinary people, and the friendly caretaker is like a father to them. Up in the attic lives a whole colony of young artists: actors, dancers, writers and composers. They are poor, but they hold the flag high. They are confident that one day they will have their big breakthrough, and they are working diligently on a revue that their leader, a young musician and composer, has written.

Der var engang en vicevært

1937

De tre måske fire poster
5.7

The noble knights of yesteryear - like the Three Musketeers - threw themselves carelessly into battle to save a lady's honor. The knights of our time are on motorcycles - and they are used for that. A young girl is to be married - but before the wedding she is pressured by an ex-boyfriend who wants to publish her letters to him. Four friends go on motorcycles to Stockholm to sort out the peas...

De tre måske fire

1939

Alarm poster
6.0

A young, famous crime writer writes under the name Jess Clarck but is actually called Sven Hansen. He is married to a lovely woman who, in her warm, luxurious life, does not understand that her husband draws inspiration for his exciting books by diving in and mingling with the dregs of society. Jess Clarck and his wife have returned home to Denmark, and Clarck wants to write a crime novel for the first time, set in Copenhagen, but how will he find an environment in peaceful Denmark?

Alarm

1938

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8.0

After the elections in 1929, where the Social Democrats are ahead, the work of rebuilding Danish society begins in earnest. A bold young man with faith in life, himself and the labor movement returns to the country, as legislation creates the opportunity to live abroad, where he feels at home. Ten years of struggle for work and democratic rule are experienced through living people. Stauning speaks before and after the film.

I Folkets Navn

1938

Frk. Møllers jubilæum poster
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Ms. Møller is a cashier in a large piano store and will soon be celebrating her 25th anniversary. She wants to help the sweet young Grete Holm in the packing room. In order for the poor and orphaned Grete to meet a rich young man, Ms. Møller invites her on a skiing holiday in Sweden. Grete finds herself a ski instructor, and it all goes wrong when Ms. Møller has all her savings stolen and is also accused by the piano company's director of having taken the cash herself. However, she manages to expose the real thief, and Grete's ski instructor turns out to be an engineer with his own company.

Frk. Møllers jubilæum

1937

Series credits

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson poster
7.6

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

The Mike Douglas Show poster
5.8

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Mike Douglas Show poster
5.8

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Merv Griffin Show poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

What's My Line? poster
7.0

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

What's My Line?

1950

The Dick Cavett Show poster
6.8

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

The Dick Cavett Show

1968

Tony Awards poster
NR

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

Tony Awards

1956

Dinah! poster
7.0

Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.

Dinah!

1974

The Ed Sullivan Show poster
6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948

The Colgate Comedy Hour poster
6.9

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950

Kraft Music Hall poster
5.4

Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.

Kraft Music Hall

1958

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In poster
6.8

An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968

The Muppet Show poster
8.0

Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.

The Muppet Show

1976

The Dean Martin Show poster
7.4

The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody."

The Dean Martin Show

1965

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. poster
7.2

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

The Kennedy Center Honors poster
7.4

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

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8.0

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The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show

1968

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7.3

Presents a filmed, intercontinental conversation that links moderator Edward R. Murrow in New York with three internationally known figures located in different parts of the world. What set this apart from other televised interview/discussion programs was the fact that its participants could not see each other but could hear one another via telephone lines and radio.

Small World

1958

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7.0

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Lørdagshjørnet

1976

The Very Best of Victor Borge, Vol. 2 poster
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A legend of radio, television, and live performance, Victor Borge entertained the world with his clever and unique blend of comedy and music. This collection includes 8 uproarious specials from the archives, including routines like Phonetic Punctuation, The History of the Piano, It's Now or Never with Sergio Franchi, and many others.

The Very Best of Victor Borge, Vol. 2

2018

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The Victor Borge Show

1951

The Very Best of Victor Borge, Volume 1 poster
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The PBS special has collected this collection of six comedy-music specials performed by the beloved performer of the classics, Victor Borge.

The Very Best of Victor Borge, Volume 1

2011