
Acting
Jens Okking
Born — Died
1939-12-18 — 2018-01-21
Place of birth
Copenhagen, Denmark
Known for
Acting
Credits
87 titles
Known for
7.9The series follows the residents of an apartment building on Copenhagen's Christianshavn, as they go about their daily lives and challenges. There is Olsen, a mover with an old fashion view of the world, Clausen who runs the local pet shop, Egon the career focused assistant, their wives who work hard to keep their spouses lives together, the young couple Tue and Rikke who recently moved in, the hard working caretaker Meyer, who never puts in to much effort, and of course Emma, the innkeeper of Rottehullet, where all the important decisions are made while running up the bar tab. The series was produced by Nordisk Film for Danmarks Radio TV station between the years 1970-77. The series' first director was Ebbe Langberg, then Erik Balling and Tom Hedegaard respectively. The series was conceived by an author team of well-known Danish authors such Leif Panduro, Benny Andersen, and Lise Nørgaard.
The House at Christianshavn
1970
7.7The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
The Kingdom
1994
10.0Court drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.
Defense
2003
4.2A story about Carlsberg founder JC Jacobsen, his son Carl, and their struggle to create a brewing company, and simultaneously a look at fifty years of Danish history.
Bryggeren
1996
7.8In 1970s Denmark, the criminal police in a provincial town solve different criminal cases, when the police was dominated by men and DNA was not yet a tool in investigation.
A Town in the Province
1977
9.0About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658.
The Gønge Chieftain
1992
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
7.1Exiled to a rural clinic in 1980s East Germany for seeking an exit visa, a disillusioned doctor maintains a guarded distance from her colleagues, unsure if the kindly head physician is a genuine ally or a Stasi informant.
Barbara
2012
5.5A poetic gangster story and a thriller about the passage of time. Recorded between 1991 and 1997 but released in 2010; von Trier's long-running project was to premiere in 2024, but production was halted.
Dimension
2010
2000s · 12 titles
5.6A guy catches his wife cheating on him and takes brutal revenge.
Flænset
2000
6.8The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...
Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
2002
4.1Elias is at a toy fair in Paris. His wife Ingrid and his entire family are waiting for him to come home. They have organized a surprise party for his 60th birthday. Unaware of their plans, Elias decides to stay in Paris and celebrate his birthday on his own. This decision triggers an avalanche of events that brings family conflicts out into the open, but is also a cause of reconciliation.
Lost and Found
2005
6.4A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.
The Good Cop
2004
5.1A young couple and their daughter move into a rambling old house. Soon, an increasingly alarming string of events and supernatural disturbances connects the house, and them, with a series of unsolved murders committed three years earlier. They are the only living witnesses, but for how long?
Restless Souls
2005
8.9As the 30-year crisis looms, five older young people in Copenhagen find good reason to reconsider their lives. Dennis is about to move in with Kirsten, but he has his reservations, and she has her own unconscious agenda. Thomas and Søs have lived together for several years, but never before have they found reason to doubt the strength of their relationship, given her desire to have children. And Mads is a professional soccer player who has to deal with his own and everyone else's expectations. All of them come to realize that when you are forced to make a choice without knowing the consequences in advance, it can be more than difficult to figure out the next step.
Next Step
2007
5.8The future is stolen by Captain Bill the Black. It is up to the infamous pirate Jolly Roger and his great-great-great grandchild Lula to save it, helped by the two arch-angels Theobalt and Emil.
Jolly Roger - Jagten på den forsvundne fremtid!
2001
6.8While changing the pipes in the tanningbeds at Golden Sun, Tommy meets the owner. A middleaged former Miss Fyn called Susse. Slowly an unusual love affair begins. Tommy's two friends Ole & Flemming give him tips on how to give Golden Sun some masculine appeal. Susse just happens to have a sleazy lawyer that does not appreciate the new look.
The Sun King
2005
5.7A classic story known all over the world that has captured and thrilled generations of children and adults now in puppet animation format. With all of the sense of childish enthusiasm intact, this romantic story disguised as humour and farce will once again delight.
The Three Musketeers
2006
7.5Svensson is a wealthy, aging blusterer who has just had a rather unusual funeral for his late wife and is now on his way to Spain with his cracker of a young mistress. But his trip is delayed when a lawyer turns up with a paternity suit. With a young undertaker as the new chauffeur at the wheel of his Jag, he sets off to confront the woman who claims to be the mother of his unknown daughter, turning his life and that of his companion upside down in the process.
One-Hand Clapping
2001
No synopsis available yet.
Solen er så rød
2000
5.3A romantic comedy set in the world of gambling, debt collecting and professional boxing. Laura is an unlucky gambler with a huge debt, she crosses paths with Claus, a former boxer who now makes a living as a debt collector. Laura is cheating, scamming, and lying and eventually life catches up with her. Claus is trying to regain his self respect and start anew. Together, they make an awkward but very charming couple on the verge of love. It is a story about trust, friendship, new beginnings, getting a second chance and doing the right thing.
The Collector
2004
1990s · 10 titles
7.8At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate.
The Kingdom
1994
7.6The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her.
The Kingdom II
1998
6.9At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.
Stolen Spring
1993
5.6A contemporary offbeat portrayal of a mixed lot of provincial people before during and after a baptism, a funeral and a wedding ceremony. At the centre of theses events is a woman with unfulfilled ambitions, a questioning rebel of a boy and an unconventional minister. Although seen through the eyes of a boy, this is a film for adults, about adults.
The Beast Within
1995
6.0Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
Barbara
1997
10.0In nineteenth century Jutland, Mikkel Krænsen, a peddler of knitted goods, wants the best for his daughter Cecilia, who is in love with the neighbour's son Esben. Only too late, the father realises that love is not as manageable as business.
Cecilia
1991
5.7Svend Aage is an aging prisoner. His son, Max, is doing well in the world "outside" - or so Svend Aage's wife tells him - and is quite unaware that his father is in jail. One day, a new inmate arrives at the gates to serve the most severe sentence ever handed out for violence and drug-related crime. It's Max.
The Flower Prisoner
1996
6.2Policeman Lasse rehabilitates young prisoners by taking them on survival course in the Swedish wasteland. And before he has to retire due to illness, he arranges one last trip.
The Bad Seeds
1996
The insecure apprentice waiter, Axel, is reprimanded by the old master, Fendrup, for his unpolished serving technique: 'It is necessary to dare to give a part of yourself in order to be able to provide the sublime. Do you dare, Axel?' This evening's 100th birthday party develops into Axel's dizzying encounter with love - of food, wine and the woman he serves for.
Debut
1995
6.0Line married early to a crazy but lovely painter, who unfortunately one day became so crazy that he had to be hospitalized. For her, there was only one thing to do: refuse to let it get her down, quickly find a job—as a cashier at the local supermarket—set up a new home for her four children, and make it all work. But what about her dreams and love—and making ends meet...
Superdame
1991
1980s · 10 titles
6.4Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole.
Rubber Tarzan
1981
5.9The year is 1630. A young woman in Laupstad comes to a small mountain village. She witnesses a woman being hunted and captured.
The Witch Hunt
1981
7.0Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. All three seem friends at first, but gradually Steen starts pushing Mulle away while pulling the impressionable Bjørn with him towards more and more violence.
Zappa
1983
3.7The evil lawyer wants to take over the estate, and the evil farmer Esben helps him. But if the good farmer Svend Åge gets the red cow Rosa to bellow while Niels Peder yodels, then the horse that the stable boy Morten is riding on the trotting track will run faster and win the race. Then the lawyer will no longer be able to take over the estate, but it could all go down the drain if he steals Rosa.
The Fight For The Red Cow
1987
6.0This trucker road movie tells the story of four men driving 30-ton meat-carriers in shuttle service between Denmark and Italy. Against their will, the truckers get involved in criminal activities that flourish as a result of European custom service bureaucracy. Their bonding as friends and their strongly rooted family life help them through.
Truck-driver
1981
6.1Four Danish kids find a cookie jar filled with cash while playing in the woods. They decide to keep the money, at least until a reward is offered. But the crooks want "their" money back and will do whatever necessary to accomplish this.
Shower of Gold
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chris Madsen
1987
5.514 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio communication center. Via radio he is in contact with his father, who works at a big ship at the other side of the globe. One day the radio communication is suddenly interrupted by something which sounds like a Latin mass. In school Sven attends a lesson about radio-astronomy. The teacher explains that astronomers can receive radio waves that are thousand years old. Sven understands that the Latin mass he heard was transmitted to him from another age. He gets curious and starts making experiments by connecting his radio kit to bigger aerials. When he sits in the caravan together with his friends Bo and Petra, they not only hear the Latin mass on his radio, but the whole caravan is turned into a time-machine that brings them to the Middle Ages. They get in trouble with some warriors, who capture Petra, while Sven and Bo escape with the help of their time-machine...
The Miracle in Valby
1989
6.3Old rockers, like soldiers, never die, they only pass away. Well, Erik Clausen turns nostalgia into a vivid tribute to the moods and manners of the 1950s Danish Rock'n Roll by picking up a group of dispersed fellow bandsmen from wherever life and fate have left them stranded to have them revive their group and relive the good old days. A spirit of social solidarity permeates throughout.
Rocking Silver
1983
No synopsis available yet.
I lige linje
1984
1970s · 24 titles
5.7Anders 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
6.9When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
7.7After his girlfriend is killed in an automobile accident, a man decides the best revenge on those responsible is to murder their loved ones.
Nineteen Red Roses
1974
4.4A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.
In My Life
1978
6.2Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Very little throws him off his stride, whether it is his girlfriend's jealousy of his friendship with Charly, a reform-school boy, or his mother's drunken, playful amorousness one night, because he reminds her of his father.
Me and Charly
1978
6.8After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up - in the penthouse suite at the Sheraton. The suitcase with the money changes hands several times, before Kongen's daughter takes of with all the money.
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
8.7Mølleby is a small, cozy market town. The year is 1924, and the sight of a Rolls Royce from Copenhagen is a sensation. But all is not as idyllic as it seems. The town's new mayor is trying to build a new brickworks to ensure the town's growth and future, but the previous mayor is doing everything he can to thwart these ambitious plans...
The Moelleby affair
1976
5.8The second film in the series about the enterprising Gyldenkål family. Now the family has climbed to the top of the social ladder, but unexpected demands from the tax authorities mean that a forced auction is imminent. So they embark on their biggest scam yet: defrauding Fidusbanken.
The Goldcabbage Family Breaks the Bank
1976
5.2Audun’s son is killed in an accident while the mother is in bed with her lover. Ten years later is Audun on the road living as a salesman and on the lone women that he meet and steal money from.
Tjærehandleren
1971
5.0When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with hilarious results.
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
6.2In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark's Jews remained free. The Nazis agreed. In October 1943, the agreement was broken... This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark's valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death!
The Only Way
1970
5.7The family Gyldenkål is actually called Iversen, but have changed their name, after numerous problems with the IRS, loan sharks and employers. Using clever scams, the family builds up a reputation as a wealthy and respectable part of society.
The Goldcabbage Family
1975
10.0No synopsis available yet.
En landsbydegns dagbog
1975
6.0Per, is a petty thief who narrowly avoids arrest and is quickly abandoned by his criminal mentors. He vows revenge by using their girlfriends, but nothing goes to plan.
The Escape
1973
7.7Bertram is very happy with his life, but is encouraged to seek new challenges. Bertram is tasked with getting Merland to sign a contract with the municipality, but it is not easy, as Merland has changed his mind. Meanwhile, Jannie is considering moving out of her parents' house and in with Pelle. Henrik and Louise's relationship is on the rocks. Louise thinks Henrik is having an affair with Lisa. Henrik and Lisa's attraction to each other is obvious, but Bertram doesn't notice anything. Lisa and Bertram's lives take a sudden turn when Henrik dies in an accident. Erling tries to make Bertram the municipal director after Henrik's death, but of course, this doesn't come without a cost.
Bertram og Lisa
1975
6.6A man decides to perpetrate a series of killings and publicise them as political acts in an attempt to protest against nuclear armaments.
The Marksman
1977
8.0Norwegian TV-Drama based on Henrik Ibsen's play. All the choices you take, have consequences for both oneself and others.
The Lady from the Sea
1979
7.8After a stay in a sanatorium due to violent behavior during an arrest, Detective Karl Jørgensen is transferred to the fraud department. Here, Karl discovers a case involving his ex-wife and her new husband. When Karl begins to investigate the case, he is stopped by the police chief. Karl teams up with journalist John Bullnes. They gradually get closer to the truth, but are stopped when a suspect commits suicide. Karl is suspended and Bullnes is sent to Berlin on an assignment. Karl then takes the case into his own hands and arrests the city's mayor and a major contractor.
Copper
1976
7.3Claus celebrates his promotion with a night out on the town. Ebbesen wants to close a workshop and Allan gets fired. Ulla, who is bored in her marriage, rekindles her old relationship with Allan and tries to find evidence against Ebbesen's shady dealings. Ulla and Allan flee together and make plans against Ebbesen, but the police are ready for them when they arrive.
Nyt legetøj
1977
7.7In the early 17th century, the tyrannical parish priest in Vejlby, Søren Jensen Quist, tries to force his daughter Maren into a lucrative marriage with the wealthy farmer Mikkel Ibsen. However, Maren prefers the bailiff. When Mikkel feels that both the bailiff and the priest are encroaching on his power, he arranges for the priest to be convicted and executed for the murder of Mikkel's brother, Nils Ibsen.
Præsten i Vejlby
1972
Some young squatters have occupied a building that the insurance company wants to demolish, but Adam Berg hesitates to call the police on them. A difficult policyholder wants more money for a claim than the company has paid out. A former schoolmate pesters Adam to allow him to take out insurance he is not actually entitled to. A young man, Tom, appears in Adam's world. Is Adam homosexual? And Adam meets the lawyer, Paul, who is dressed in women's clothing and, as a crossdresser, is known as Sonja.
I Adams verden
1973
6.4Kirsten gets divorced in her early 40s and moves with her son to her parents' home in Hjørring. Here she falls in love with a German officer, without considering the social ostracism and contempt she exposes herself to. Meanwhile, the tide of war is slowly turning, and German victory is no longer as certain as it once was.
That Brief Summer
1976
9.0Alcoholic Herbert's last birthday, experienced through his increasingly deadly drunken stupor.
Tilløkke Herbert!
1974
10.0No synopsis available yet.
En ordentlig omgang
1977
1960s · 2 titles
NRSummer vacation. But Lars remain in town for his parents must work. One day as he bikes around, he hears a scream from a garden.
Clandestine Summer
1969
The story of the soldier Franz Woyzeck for whom everything breaks down when he finds out about his partner Maria being unfaithful. Consequences are fatal. TV adaptation of Brüchner's 1837 unfinished play.
Woyzeck
1968
Series credits
7.9The series follows the residents of an apartment building on Copenhagen's Christianshavn, as they go about their daily lives and challenges. There is Olsen, a mover with an old fashion view of the world, Clausen who runs the local pet shop, Egon the career focused assistant, their wives who work hard to keep their spouses lives together, the young couple Tue and Rikke who recently moved in, the hard working caretaker Meyer, who never puts in to much effort, and of course Emma, the innkeeper of Rottehullet, where all the important decisions are made while running up the bar tab. The series was produced by Nordisk Film for Danmarks Radio TV station between the years 1970-77. The series' first director was Ebbe Langberg, then Erik Balling and Tom Hedegaard respectively. The series was conceived by an author team of well-known Danish authors such Leif Panduro, Benny Andersen, and Lise Nørgaard.
The House at Christianshavn
1970
7.7The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
The Kingdom
1994
10.0Court drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.
Defense
2003
4.2A story about Carlsberg founder JC Jacobsen, his son Carl, and their struggle to create a brewing company, and simultaneously a look at fifty years of Danish history.
Bryggeren
1996
7.8In 1970s Denmark, the criminal police in a provincial town solve different criminal cases, when the police was dominated by men and DNA was not yet a tool in investigation.
A Town in the Province
1977
9.0About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658.
The Gønge Chieftain
1992
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Zulu Bingo
2003
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Pyrus: The Greatest Christmas
1994
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Pyrus: The Greatest Christmas
1994
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Schyyy... det er lørdag
1984
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Kaj Munk
1986
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Anthonsen
1984
8.3Policeman Karl Jørgensen was once a prominent detective, but due to a violent temper he's now checking out passports at the airport, smuggling stout to work in his thermos every day. However, Kaj, the boyfriend of his daughter, is suddenly killed by a heroin overdose injected by hooded gangsters. It turns out he was spying on their organisation for his brother, Frank, who was framed by them while smuggling narcotics. When Frank hears about Kaj's death, he escapes from prison to get back at the killers. Meanwhile, the same gangsters threaten Karl Jørgensen's daughter, and soon Karl is involved in a major drug smuggling case. Frank and his buddy rob a bank and shoot a police officer. A country-wide manhunt ensues while Karl is having trouble with controlling his daughter's vigilante activities, with finding out who killed Kaj, with the police detectives on the case and with his own alcoholic and lacking existence.
Once a Cop...
1987
A Danish policeman convalescing in Norway is reluctantly drawn into dramatic events at a high mountain hotel.
Dødelig kjemi
1992
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ludvigsbakke
1978
NRFollowing a old Circus artist now having a circus school and his family, a great entertaining series typical for Danish TV in the beginning to mid eighties.
Familien Krahne
1982
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Opgang
1979
10.0No synopsis available yet.
John, Alice, Peter, Susanne og lille Verner
1976
7.5Summer vacation. But Lars remain in town for his parents must work. One day as he bikes around, he hears a scream from a garden.
Clandestine Summer
1969
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Fæhår og Harzen
1995
No synopsis available yet.
Hvad en møller kan komme ud for
1970
Jenny Winge tries to make a career as a painter by going to Rome.
Jenny
1983
9.0Three families camp on the Danish island of Endelave. The children find the body of a Greek worker on the beach. They decide to find out what happened. The holiday is turned upside down, and the children are involved in a number of exciting and eerie events.
Mysteriet om det levende lig
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Skattekortet
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ridder Ræddik
1980
Behind the camera
5.0When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with hilarious results.
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
5.0When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with hilarious results.
Watch Your Back, Professor!
1977
