About Rumle Hammerich
Born 1954. Rumle Hammerich is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Rumle Hammerich 1988 at the Malmö opening of his first film Otto Is a Rhino. Jens Peter Hammerich, better known as Rumle Hammerich (born 16 November 1954), is a Danish film director, screenwriter and film company director. He is currently creative director at Nordisk Film.
His filmography consists of both feature films and television films and mini series in Denmark as well as Sweden. His mini series Young Andersen—which describes the formative boarding school years of Hans Christian Andersen— won an Emmy Award for Best international TV Movie/Mini Series in 2005. His crime series The Protectors won the 2009 International Emmy Award for the best television drama series.
Biography Jens Peter Hammerich was born on 16 November 1954 in Copenhagen to translator Ida Elisabeth Hammerich and Paul Hammerich, journalist, writer and editor in chief at the national Danish newspaper Politiken. From an early age he was called Rumle and when his father in 1959 asked her mother to translate Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts for Politiken, she gave the perpetually dirty boy Pig-Pen her son's nickname.
He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1979, and had his debut as a feature film director in 1983 with the children film Otto er et næsehorn "Otto Is a Rhino". After working in Sweden in the early 1990s, directing films such as the horror film Svart Lucia and the children film Kan du vissla Johanna?, he was made the director of national Danish television station DR's fiction department in 1994. In 1998 he left DR and the following year he joined Nordisk Film, where he led the subsidiary Nordisk Film Produktion until 2003 when he was made creative director of the company.
Filmography Film Year Title Director Writer1981 Den Sidste detalje Cirkus Casablanca 1983 Otto the Rhino 1988 Skyggen af Emma 1989 The Dog That Smiled 1992 Svart Lucia 2009 Headhunter
Producer Cliff Forrest (2007) (Documentary)
Executive producer Once in a Lifetime (2000) Lykkevej (2003) En som Hodder (2003) Facing the Truth (2002) (Documentary)
Associate producer I Am Dina (2002)
Co-producer Suxxess (2002)
Creative producer Strings (2004)
Television Year Title Director Writer ExecutiveProducer Notes 1988–90 Dårfinkar & dönickar 3 episodes 1993 Satirica 1994 Lærerværelset 6 episodes 1995 Mellem venner 1997 Taxa 2 episodes 2000 Rejseholdet 2000 Herr von Hancken mini series 2005 Young Andersen mini series 2018 The Bridge Series 4
Executive producer Leif Panduro (1998) Rundt om Panduro (1998) Beck (1 episode, 2002) Forsvar (2003)
TV movies Year Title Director Writer 1987 Quark and the Vikings 1991 Fasadklättraren 1994 Kan du vissla Johanna?
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Rumle Hammerich was born on 16 November 1954 in Copenhagen.
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