Bodil Udsen

Acting

Bodil Udsen

Born January 12, 1925 · København, Danmark

Died February 26, 2008 · aged 83

No biography available.

Known For

The HeritageThe Heritage · 1978
The Heritage
5.71978
MovieDrama
Anders 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.
I Am DinaI Am Dina · 2002
I Am Dina
5.62002
MovieDrama
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
Baby DollBaby Doll · 1988
Baby Doll
6.71988
MovieHorrorThriller
A young woman goes on a vacation at an old farm, which once belonged to her deceased grandmother. Childhood traumas and the memories of her strict and authoritarian grandmother haunts the young woman and leads her to scary delusions and a mental breakdown.
Sonjas JulSonjas Jul · 1969
Sonjas Jul
1969
MovieDramaFamily
The BlindedThe Blinded · 1955
The Blinded
7.01955
MovieDramaCrime
The young mechanic Borge Rasmussen works in Salling Harbour and lives with the slightly older Marinus Frederiksen, who chairs the city's port workers. Marinus sees in Borge, who has lost his parents, his only friend and is easily influenced by his extremist views.
Fear Me NotFear Me Not · 2008
Fear Me Not
5.12008
MovieDramaThriller
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael continues to take the pills. Having lost all control, Michael's repressed instincts resurface with a force and violence that no-one could have predicted.
Samson & SallySamson & Sally · 1984
Samson & Sally
6.11984
MovieAnimation
Samson is a young whale that doesn't have friends. He spends his time listening to his mother's stories about the legendary whale Moby Dick. Samson becomes fascinated about it and decides to go on a journey to find Moby Dick.
Cirkeline: Little Big MouseCirkeline: Little Big Mouse · 2004
Cirkeline: Little Big Mouse
5.82004
MovieFamilyAnimation
Circleen goes on holiday to Turkey with her artist. Her chums Ingolf, Fredrik, and Viktor decide to go to see her, and stow away on board granddad's ship, where they meet another stowaway, the tough, fearless mouse Ali, who has set off into the world in search of happiness. Our friends are dragged into Ali's adventures and agree to help him to obtain cheese on board. But granddad is furious: he doesn't want kids on board, and the cat, the cook, and the captain aren't exactly mouse lovers either. Meanwhile, Ali has a secret!

Movies

The HeritageThe Heritage · 1978
The Heritage
5.71978
MovieDrama
Anders 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.
I Am DinaI Am Dina · 2002
I Am Dina
5.62002
MovieDrama
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
Baby DollBaby Doll · 1988
Baby Doll
6.71988
MovieHorrorThriller
A young woman goes on a vacation at an old farm, which once belonged to her deceased grandmother. Childhood traumas and the memories of her strict and authoritarian grandmother haunts the young woman and leads her to scary delusions and a mental breakdown.
Sonjas JulSonjas Jul · 1969
Sonjas Jul
1969
MovieDramaFamily
The BlindedThe Blinded · 1955
The Blinded
7.01955
MovieDramaCrime
The young mechanic Borge Rasmussen works in Salling Harbour and lives with the slightly older Marinus Frederiksen, who chairs the city's port workers. Marinus sees in Borge, who has lost his parents, his only friend and is easily influenced by his extremist views.
Fear Me NotFear Me Not · 2008
Fear Me Not
5.12008
MovieDramaThriller
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael continues to take the pills. Having lost all control, Michael's repressed instincts resurface with a force and violence that no-one could have predicted.
Samson & SallySamson & Sally · 1984
Samson & Sally
6.11984
MovieAnimation
Samson is a young whale that doesn't have friends. He spends his time listening to his mother's stories about the legendary whale Moby Dick. Samson becomes fascinated about it and decides to go on a journey to find Moby Dick.
Cirkeline: Little Big MouseCirkeline: Little Big Mouse · 2004
Cirkeline: Little Big Mouse
5.82004
MovieFamilyAnimation
Circleen goes on holiday to Turkey with her artist. Her chums Ingolf, Fredrik, and Viktor decide to go to see her, and stow away on board granddad's ship, where they meet another stowaway, the tough, fearless mouse Ali, who has set off into the world in search of happiness. Our friends are dragged into Ali's adventures and agree to help him to obtain cheese on board. But granddad is furious: he doesn't want kids on board, and the cat, the cook, and the captain aren't exactly mouse lovers either. Meanwhile, Ali has a secret!
Tre små pigerTre små piger · 1966
Tre små piger
6.21966
MovieComedyMusic
Grev Rambow har mistet sin formue og må nu bo til leje sammen med sine tre døtre, Beate, Marie og Annette. Grevens eneste håb er, at døtrene gifter sig tilbage til fordums rigdom. Så da tre bejlere melder sig, bliver de nøje målt og vejet. Alt går som planlagt, indtil den rige Hertuginde de Groos vil have sit skvat af en søn gift med Beate. Den desperate greve slår straks til. Men Beate er forelsket i en anden, og nu må pigerne stå sammen, så de alle kan få den, de elsker. Det er en sand stjernebesætning, der stiller op til den sang-, sjov- solfyldte ”Tre Små Piger” - baseret på Walter Kollos operette fra 1927. Instruktør Ebbe Langberg har æren af at instruere Poul Bundgaard, Susse Wold, Malene Schwartz, Daimi, Ove Sprogøe, Bodil Udsen, Karl Stegger og ikke mindst sin 26-årige lillebror, Jesper Langberg i en film, der er lige dele underholdende lystspil og imponerende flot udstyrsstykke. Stærke kræfter bag en musikalsk storfilm - på DVD i Nordisk Films 100-års jubilæumsår.
Send Mere SlikSend Mere Slik · 2001
Send Mere Slik
6.12001
MovieFamily
Two smart city girls, Angelica (12) and Lone (9), are sent on summer vacation to stay with a couple of distant old relatives in an even more distant part of Jutland. The neighbors on the large pig farm are trying to get the two old people into a nursing home so they can take over the land. The girls don't like this, so they take up the fight to help their aging hosts.
SelvmordsskolenSelvmordsskolen · 1964
Selvmordsskolen
7.81964
MovieDramaComedy
Bizarre satiric tale about an ordinary Danish man disappointed in life and the welfare system. Close to a total collapse he decides to take the easy way out. He seeks help at Doctor X, head of a suicide school that guarantees 100% efficiency.
My Granny's HouseMy Granny's House · 1984
My Granny's House
5.01984
MovieFamilyDrama
Danish author Soya's acidly funny turn-of-the-century memoir novel turned into a robust black comedy. After his mother's death, tiny tot Søren goes to live with his wilful, rich and stingy Granny, who wants to improve his manners. She also wants to make him sole heir to her fortune, which everybody else covets. Mutual respect, even love, develops between the two. And death by poison enlivens things.
Dust on the BrainDust on the Brain · 1961
Dust on the Brain
6.51961
MovieFamilyComedy
The story centers around the busybody housewives of a modern Danish working class neighborhood of the 1960's. A remake of the Norwegian comedy film from 1959.
A School for Life!A School for Life! · 1978
A School for Life!
1978
MovieDocumentary
A satirical presentation of the public school debate, exhibiting three different teaching methods. First, the authoritarian education system of old; Second, a more modern form, combining theory and practice; and finally, the teacher's nightmare, where children are taught only the necessities for modern life: sales techniques, status symbols, and how to (quite literally) elbow your way to the top.
Jeg elsker blåtJeg elsker blåt · 1968
Jeg elsker blåt
5.61968
MovieRomanceDrama
A socially realistic film about a fifteen-year-old girl and her problems with love. Judith comes from a working-class home and does not want to continue her education. After having a relationship with a man twenty years her senior, she meets seventeen-year-old rock musician Willy, with whom she becomes pregnant. Willy does not really interest her, and she has an illegal abortion.
The Story of a MotherThe Story of a Mother · 1979
The Story of a Mother
9.01979
MovieDrama
A mother whose child is taken by Death, forces her on a desperate journey to get it back, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale.
Glade DageGlade Dage · 1964
Glade Dage
1964
MovieTV MovieDrama
The woman Winnie sinks deeper and deeper into a large pile of manure while talking to her husband and spouting an endless stream of trivialities. This is the simple plot of Samuel Beckett's world-famous classic of the theater of the absurd.
Eventyr på MallorcaEventyr på Mallorca · 1961
Eventyr på Mallorca
6.01961
MovieComedy
Every year, more and more Danes turn their backs on the rainy Danish summer and instead vacation in the sunshine of Mallorca. With Anders Christensen as our tour guide, we follow one of the many travel companies—some of the participants are new faces, others are old acquaintances from "Eventyrrejsen" (The Adventure Trip).
Don Olsen kommer til byenDon Olsen kommer til byen · 1964
Don Olsen kommer til byen
6.81964
MovieFamilyComedy
Bank director L.W. Jacobsen resides in a small provincial town. He is not particularly interested in his wife, Elsebeth, but rather in teacher and city council member Miss Mortensen. Thorsen, the town's manufacturer, is a member of the same city council group as Jacobsen. Then Don Olsen comes to town. Olsen is not interested in the upper class, but rather in people. By chance, Thorsen and Olsen meet and soon become drinking buddies. Thorsen drags the milkman's horse home to his apartment in the middle of the night. The scandal is a reality. Thorsen wants to flee, but with Olsen's help, he instead woos the townspeople and Miss Mortensen under the motto "Make good times better."
The Man from Swan FarmThe Man from Swan Farm · 1972
The Man from Swan Farm
7.11972
MovieFamilyComedy
A folk comedy set in a village on the island of Zealand, where a powerful and dishonest businessman tries to trick the traditional owner out of his farm, Svanegården. The businessman wants to sell it to the Germans, but a group of brave people and couples in love manage to prevent this from happening.
Lenin, You Rascal, YouLenin, You Rascal, You · 1972
Lenin, You Rascal, You
5.41972
MovieComedy
A comedy based on partially authentic events. The year is 1917, World War I is raging and dividing Germany between west and east. The Russian tsar is deposed. Lenin, who is in Zurich, wants to start a revolution – but how? An unbroken chain of accidents and assassination attempts ends in St. Petersburg, Lenin's target. This marks the beginning of 10 days that will shake the world.
Flemming på kostskoleFlemming på kostskole · 1961
Flemming på kostskole
5.81961
MovieFamilyDrama
Flemming argues a lot with his parents. So they agree that it would be best for Flemming to go to boarding school. Here he encounters a completely different world and now has to try to cope in a boys' environment. There he discovers how good it is to have a family and that it wasn't the best solution to the arguments.
Family MattersFamily Matters · 1993
Family Matters
3.51993
MovieDrama
Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him.
Kvindelist og kærlighedKvindelist og kærlighed · 1960
Kvindelist og kærlighed
7.31960
MovieComedy
He is very happy – and proud! For he believes that he is a great, great hunter who brings home his beautiful prey, Eva. But she knows better, and so do her three sisters, who show up for the wedding, for girls naturally know everything there is to know about women's wiles and love. With a totally confused but sympathetic smile for the three unhappy women he did not get, he flees with his young bride. In return, the three amuse themselves by telling each other the true story—how things really went with the young couple—and the winding paths he took to reach his wedding. For it has always been the prey that has hunted the hunter, and – without him ever suspecting it – he has been more of a plaything than a Don Juan. What the girls "confess" to each other is not boring—it is a comedy—which, admittedly, is not about "that's how women are"! At most, it is about how women are like that too!

TV Shows

The House at ChristianshavnThe House at Christianshavn · 1970
The House at Christianshavn
8.01970
SeriesComedyDrama
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.
MatadorMatador · 1978
Matador
9.11978
SeriesDrama
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur. Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio. The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.
BryggerenBryggeren · 1996
Bryggeren
4.21996
SeriesDrama
A 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.
The Gønge ChieftainThe Gønge Chieftain · 1992
The Gønge Chieftain
9.01992
SeriesDrama
About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658.
Nissernes ØNissernes Ø · 2003
Nissernes Ø
9.02003
SeriesFamily
Aladdin or the Wonderful LampAladdin or the Wonderful Lamp · 1975
Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp
8.01975
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
With sinister intentions, evil sorcerer Noureddin lures the young Aladdin into a dark cave to retrieve an old lamp that doesn't look like anything special. But: When Aladdin rubs it, the genie of the lamp appears and can grant any of his wishes, whether it's the princess or the entire kingdom.
SkattekortetSkattekortet · 1988
Skattekortet
1988
Series
Sådan er det bareSådan er det bare · 1987
Sådan er det bare
1987
SeriesDrama