Emanuel Gregers

Emanuel Gregers (28 December 1881 – 22 March 1957) was a Danish actor, screenwriter and film director. Gregers made 36 films during a career which extended over four decades from the Danish golden age of silent film until 1949. Critics often dismissed his work as dependable yet uninspired, however many of his light-hearted comedies achieved great popularity in Denmark. Gregers most notable films were romantic comedies starring his wives Bodil Ipsen and Marguerite Viby.

Career Emanuel Gregers was born on 28 December 1881 in Horsens, Denmark. He began acting at 16-years-old, appearing first at the Horsens summer theater and then in local theaters for the next several years. Gregers moved to Copenhagen to become the stage director for the Frederiksberg Theater and performed at Norrebros Teater and the Betty Nansen Teatret. Although he quickly shifted to working in film in 1912, Gregers maintained a lifelong attachment to stagework: he owned the Casino theater in Copenhagen and managed it from 1921 to 1931, then continued as a stage director into the 1940s. the wacky 1937 romantic comedy Mille, Marie of mig (Milly, Maria and Me), in which his then current wife, Marguerite Viby, and the most popular Danish comedienne of the 1930s, played three roles; 1938's Bolettes brudeafærd (Bolettes Bridal Party), which starred his former wife Bodil Ipsen as a sharp-tongued spinster; the witty period comedy Sørensen og Rasmussen which starred both his former wives, Viby and Ipsen; and the 1941 backstage musical, Alle gaar rundt og forelsker sig (Everyone's Falling in Love) -- in which a small part was played by Greger's third wife, Ruth Saabye.

Selected filmography

Director

Hvem er hun? (1914) Brændte vinger (1917) Zigeunerprinsessen (1918) Krigsmillionæren (1919) Lykkens blændværk (1919) Lavinen (1920) Den flyvende Hollænder I-IV (1920) Frie fugle (1922) Den sidste af slægten (1922) Madsalune (1923) Stamherren (1925) Solskinsdalen (1925) Skaf en sensation (1934) Saa til søs (1933) Min kone er husar (1935) Cocktail (1937) Mille, Marie og mig (1937) Bolettes brudefærd (1938) Milly, Maria och jag (1938) Komtessen paa Steenholt (1939) Sketch til Apolloteatret (1939) Sørensen og Rasmussen (1940) En pige med pep (1940) Thummelumsen (1941) En søndag på Amager (1941) Alle gaar rundt og forelsker sig (1941) En mand af betydning (1941) Thorvald Stauning (1941) Lykken kommer (1942) Forellen (1942) Alt for karrieren (1943) Det bødes der for (1944) Biskoppen (1944) Man elsker kun en gang (1945) Lejlighed til leje (1949) Den stjaalne minister (1949)

Actor

Bryggerens datter (1912) uncredited Krigskorrespondenter (English:The War Correspondents) (1913) as Bretton Guldhornene (1914) as Leif Hvem er hun? (1914) as Detective Fox Pigen fra Hidalgo Fyret (1914) as Tom, gårdejerens søn Zigeunerprinsessen (1918) as Anthonio Odds 777 (1932) as Godsejer Rosen Søndag på Amager, En (1941) as Sangstemme Forellen (1942) as Bankfuldmægtig Carl Møller

Writer

Hvem er hun? (1914) Brændte vinger (1917) Zigeunerprinsessen (1918) Lykkens blændværk (1919) Lavinen (1920) Flyvende Hollænder I-IV (1920) Frie fugle (1922) Solskinsdalen (1925) Cocktail (1937)