Erik Paaske

Acting

Erik Paaske

Born — Died

1933-08-21 — 1992-06-13

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Erik Johannes Paaske, der var søn af cementstøber Frithjof Paaske (død 1982) og hustru Johanne Thomasen (død 1967), gik helt traditionelt i lære som murer i årene 1948-1952. Derefter arbejdede han i seks år som murersvend på Kolding kanten og ernærede sig desuden som gårdsanger og balmusiker. Hans hobby var at spille amatørkomedie. Den kongelige skuespiller Søren Weiss opfordrede ham under et besøg i Kolding til at rejse til København for at blive professionel skuespiller. I 1958 blev han elev på Det kongelige Teaters elevskole og indgik efter udstået elevtid i teatrets faste ensemble fra 1961 og frem til 1974. Efter en afstikker til Holstebro Revyen som kunstnerisk leder forlod han Det Kong…

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

Pelle the Conqueror poster
7.3

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.

Pelle the Conqueror

1987

Hip Hip Hurrah! poster
5.1

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography.

Hip Hip Hurrah!

1987

Katinka poster
4.7

A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with Katinka and her husband, Bai, the stationmaster. Katinka, childless and in frail health, gradually falls in love with Huus, though her husband does not seem to notice. Based on the work by Herman Bang.

Katinka

1988

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

Walter and Carlo, Part II, Yes, It's Daddy poster
5.6

Coffee has been outlawed and an organization of retired people smuggle coffee from the Swedish mafia, while Walter pursues his new love interest and Carlo deals with a midlife crisis after being dumped by his girlfriend.

Walter and Carlo, Part II, Yes, It's Daddy

1986

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 12 titles

Busybody poster
7.4

In a large office building, a mysterious murder is committed, after which the body disappears. Lily Hansen, the building's helpful and talkative cleaning lady, is driving the detective investigating the case crazy with her interference. Of course, the mystery can only be solved with her help.

Busybody

1969

Me and My Kid Brother and Doggie poster
5.8

The third film about the two good-natured brothers Søren and Peter and their family on the small island of Bomø. This time, the brothers have acquired a soccer-loving dog named Bølle, who turns out to be able to predict the results of betting pools. This causes chaos in the betting service, on Bomø, and at Christiansborg.

Me and My Kid Brother and Doggie

1969

What a Pity About Daddy poster
5.9

About the young Aarhus businessman Jacob Hansen who is going to a congress in Copenhagen. His competitor in the firm sends his secretary over to spy and bring Jacob into disrepute. The secretary has sympathy for Jacob, creating complications when his wife show up.

What a Pity About Daddy

1968

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

They All Do It poster
7.0

Johannes is a shy and inexperienced young student at the music conservatory. He is a Mozart admirer and in love with his fellow student Elisabeth, who also seems interested in him. The smart and modern Herbert, called Pop, has dropped out of the conservatory and lives as a jazz musician and womanizer. He bets Johannes that he can sleep with Elisabeth before 8 p.m. that same day, since all girls are the same. He wins the bet, while Johannes consoles himself with Solvei, the girl who lives downstairs and works in a grocery store. In the end, Johannes and Elisabeth meet on the stairs. Can they still find each other?

They All Do It

1968

The Wild Hunt for the Hearse poster
10.0

Gangster chick Zara steals jewels together with the criminal Slim, who hides the loot in the hearse 'Hulda', which lazy trash man Sven has been assigned to drive to a priest in Paris. A wild hunt for the diamonds starts. The journey goes through Europe, where the hunted Sven is accompanied by a kind scout and a skinny dipping female Salvationist.

The Wild Hunt for the Hearse

1969

Melodien der blev væk poster
7.0

Danish version of Kjeld Abell's successful musical comedy from 1935. Clerk Larsen loses the melody of his youth, which he had when he met his wife. His happiness and dreams have disappeared in a bourgeois existence. "It was supposed to be so good, and then it was actually bad," as one of the play's popular songs - 'The Song of Larsen' - goes. But then the quest to find the melody again begins.

Melodien der blev væk

1965

En af dagene poster
NR

Depiction of ordinary everyday life. The action takes place in an office, with the characters Tom, Norman, and Carl as the focal points.

En af dagene

1963

No artwork available
NR

The young girl Cecilia is in love with her neighbor's son Esben. But her father, a knitwear merchant, will not allow her to marry him. Overcome with grief, she succumbs to madness. TV adaptation of Blicher's short story from 1829.

Hosekræmmeren

1963

Weekend poster
4.7

A group of better-off thirty-somethings meet for a weekend in Knud and Beth's home. The host couple is prone to bickering regularly. The married couples (Jan and Ilse, and Kjeld and Tove) that are visiting understand and try to stay out of the way. Bachelor Lars, however, comes into his own and is a constant source of provocative comments.

Weekend

1962

Paradise and Back poster
7.5

Tonnemann lives in one of the wooden sheds at the far end of Islands Brygge, close to Copenhagen's landfill site. But in 1928, he wants to leave this environment behind – to go where the air is fresh and life may offer both security and meaning. He is already on his way with his packed suitcase to sign on to a long-distance boat when a lovely girl gets in his way with her little red sports car.

Paradise and Back

1964

Stormvarsel poster
5.4

The young fisherman Kurt Vinderup returns home to the small fishing village of his childhood after completing his military service in the Royal Danish Navy. On the quay, he meets a young girl named Bitten. He and Bitten had been in the early stages of a relationship before he left for the capital. But in his absence, she has become engaged to his brother Jacob Vinderup.

Stormvarsel

1968

Series credits

The House at Christianshavn poster
7.9

The 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

The Gønge Chieftain poster
9.0

About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658.

The Gønge Chieftain

1992

Nissebanden poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Nissebanden

1984

Med Kjærlig Hilsen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Med Kjærlig Hilsen

1991

Station 13 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Station 13

1988

Ludvigsbakke poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ludvigsbakke

1978

Vinterbyøster poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Vinterbyøster

1973

Ka' De li' østers poster
7.3

A crime-series in six parts. A woman has been killed in a apartment. The murder squad are on the case.

Ka' De li' østers

1967

Livsens ondskab poster
6.5

A satire of a typical Danish provincial town ca. 1900 with it's malicious, but merry portraits of the citizens. We meet the misshapen Emanuel Thomsen "Tummelumsen" and the two friends senior examining officer Knagsted and senior teacher Clausen.

Livsens ondskab

1972