Axel Strøbye
Birthday: 1928-02-22
Place of Birth: Frederiksberg, Danmark
Biography: Strøbye was most famous for his comedy roles, as the confused uncle in Min søsters børn (My sisters Children) and the hustler Gyldenkål in Familien Gyldenkål (The Goldcabbage Family). But his biggest role and success was in Matador the TV series a lawyer Skjold Hansen, he started his acting career and education as an actor at Det Kongelige Teater (The Royal Danish theater), he also worked at Folketeatret (The peoples theater). Strøbye made his movie debut in Nåler 1951 and his last role was in 1998, as the aging inspector in the legendary Olsen Banden movies.
Movies
Pelle the Conqueror
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...
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Otto Is a Rhino
The boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and rig...
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The Olsen Gang on the Track
Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a w...
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The Olsen Gang Sees Red
Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challe...
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The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
Egon escapes from the psychiatric ward, where he has been incarcerated since the gang's last coup. K...
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that...
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The Olsen Gang Goes to War
Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Eg...
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The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strong...
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The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unma...
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Gertrud
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she ...
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The Goldcabbage Family
The family Gyldenkål is actually called Iversen, but have changed their name, after numerous problem...
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The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
The final film in the Gyldenkål trilogy. Following a financial downturn, Charles Gyldenkål decides t...
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The Goldcabbage Family Breaks the Bank
The second film in the series about the enterprising Gyldenkål family. Now the family has climbed to...
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The Veterinarian's Adopted Children
Winnie's mother is going to Bangkok to settle an inheritance matter and is looking for a good boardi...
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The Girl and the Playboy
A millionaire gets amnesia after a hit to the head and now he has to rediscover his past and decide ...
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Me, Too, in the Mafia
Petty crook “Viffer” Hansen pulls off a daring $10 million swindle selling Copenhagen’s Rundetårn to...
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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not wa...
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Ta' lidt solskin
A folk comedy for the whole family. The two carefree farm musicians, Poul Otto Madsen and Bernhard I...
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The Olsen Gang Long Gone
Criminal genius Egon Olsen presents his accomplices Benny and Keld with yet another infallible plan ...
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The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence
As usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang member...
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Kid Gang on the Go
The last day of school before the summer, held farewell to the school year. Hurray a long summer ahe...
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Kidnapning
Based on Bjarne Reuter's 1975 juvenile novel, even broader comedy strokes are employed in the film v...
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Six Kids and Their Uncle
Erik Lund is a child psychologist and defend a doctoral thesis on the subject. His knowledge is at t...
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Een pige og 39 sømænd
This festive comedy has a theme song that was incredibly popular in its day – but which is missing a...
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Six Kids and the Honeymooners
Erik and Lisbeth are getting married and then honeymoon to Austria. When Mom and Dad need to have an...
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Flaming Fire Chief
A festive crime comedy about a confused innkeeper who involuntarily finds himself becoming entangled...
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Bussen
The protagonist is a jovial bus driver, well beloved by his passengers, essentially the whole commun...
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Den grønne elevator
Hans and Mona decide to give their spouses something to think about by getting caught in a compromis...
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Love Thy Neighbour
Sven Gjeholm is a writer of sex books. His wife finds this a bit odd, considering he's not really in...
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Mor bag rattet
Lykke Jeppsen is beautiful and young, but she is best served by not being much else. She certainly s...
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A Day Without Lies
In a sophisticated world, everyone lies and deceives each other, and only the peaceful Norwegian Ste...
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Fætrene på Torndal
Werner (William Rosenberg) is an inspector for group of farmes called Digeskov. Left alone by Digesk...
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Han, hun, Dirch og Dario
Director Paul Borg (Ebbe Langberg) neglects his young, beautiful wife Marianne (Ghita Nørby). He eve...
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Høfeber
A confrontational and friendly judge gets in trouble when his wife is trying to arouse his jealousy ...
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I kongens klæ'r
Kjeld Petersen plays a merchant who has stolen his clothes when he is out take a dip in the Sound. H...
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Wife on vacation
Allan Thorsen is tired of his wife, but he finds it difficult to tell her that he wants a divorce. S...
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Jeppe på Bjerget
Jeppe is a bedraggled day laborer whose great vice is brandy. And when he falls down drunk in the fi...
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Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud
Documentary about Carl Theodor Dreyer and his film Gertrud....
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How to Behave in a Fourposter Bed
A police lieutenant woman goes undercover into a mansion where a couple maintains a school to teach ...
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The Girl in a Swing
A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danis...
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En af dagene
Depiction of ordinary everyday life. The action takes place in an office, with the characters Tom, N...
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The Quiet Battle
The Danish resistance movement stepped up its activities towards the end of the war. One night, an E...
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Kristiane af Marstal
Two young skippers, Hans Tønnesen and Poul Nielsen, have a small cargo ship that transports freight ...
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Det stod i avisen
An episodic film with six different stories that are more or less interwoven. A married couple is ce...
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Dyden går amok
Hidden among the dunes on the west coast of Jutland lies HU, where fishermen struggle to earn a livi...
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Crazy Paradise
Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great vi...
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Kick Me in the Traditions!
Based on Leif Panduro's 1958 satire classic. David, a senior high-school student, aims a swift kick ...
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Kassen stemmer
Three young men discover a scam that three somewhat older gentlemen from Aarhus' upper class have se...
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South of Tana River
A plane lands one day at Nairobi Airport in Kenya, and among the passengers is a young Danish girl, ...
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Oskar
Oskar? That's my driver. And Tina, my maid, must have taken my suitcase with her to the baron - the ...
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Den fine mand
The newly rich Mr. Jourdain dreams of climbing the social ladder in 17th-century Paris. And he makes...
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Nu stiger den
A folk comedy loosely based on the career of Danish inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian El...
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Tre mand frem for en trold
An amateur photographer has accidentally captured something special in a landscape photo from Sweden...
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Naalen
"Naalen" is the title character in the film, a ruthless black market kingpin whose wake inevitably f...
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Mig og dig
A love story about a young woman's relationship with two men, the lawyer she was previously married ...
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Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner
There is a cheeky Frida hiding inside all of us. Hideouts, secrets, kissing techniques, and dreams o...
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It's Nifty in the Navy
The three young fishermen, Svend, Knud, and Valdemar, have bought a new cutter, but haven't paid it ...
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Fløjtespilleren
A bunch of wagons are crossing the border. It's the Karla Circus, which, after a rough season in Ger...
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I, A Lover
Beatrice abandons her husband Peter because he is impotent in their sex life, instead she travels to...
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Helle for Lykke
One summer evening, two young people meet at the strait. He is Poul and she is Anna. They try to fin...
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Hold da helt ferie
Søren is looking forward to a relaxing camping holiday with his wife, Marianne. But nothing goes as ...
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Be Dear to Me
The Danish Ingen tid til Kaertegn (Be Dear to Me) is heavily reliant on the appeal of its star, 8-ye...
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Babette's Feast
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite mea...
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Topsy Turvy
An uptight young man and his equally uptight family moves next door to a hedonistic clan, including ...
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The Fight For The Red Cow
The evil lawyer wants to take over the estate, and the evil farmer Esben helps him. But if the good ...
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Bedroom Mazurka
Max (Søltoft) is a popular teacher at a public school who needs a new schoolmaster. In an effort to ...
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The Poet and the Little Mother
Poeten and Lillemor are making their living on his writing, but the general interest in modern poetr...
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The Ghost Train
A motley crew must spend the night at a small, remote railway station. Strange occurrences and old s...
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Styrmand Karlsen
First mate Knud Karlsen has just received sad news from his girlfriend. On board the ship is also ch...
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Tine
Danish melodrama about a housemaid struggling to find normalcy and love in the midst of war....
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Vandalism
Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary re...
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Father of Four: In the Snow
Ib Schønberg is again the kindly father - and now he is crowned "the ideal driver". This means that ...
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Bedside Highway
In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads...
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Bedside Head
The young headmaster of a boy's boarding school has decided that due to the virility of his young ch...
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The Girl and the Press Photographer
Bastian and Lene are a good couple, as a journalist and press photographer. They take turns to get i...
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Biedermann og brandstifterne
Mr. Biedermann naively allows two men to stay in his house, which they end up setting on fire....
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Duellen
A sort of forerunner to Hollywood's Boogie Nights (1997), this Danish melodrama is set in the world ...
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Det gælder livet
Ella and Olaf are in love but childless. Their neighbors Viggo and Polly have three children, but th...
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Watch Your Back, Professor!
When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with ...
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Sextet
Six people of different ages and with varying mental health problems are forced to spend the night t...
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Tjærehandleren
Audun’s son is killed in an accident while the mother is in bed with her lover. Ten years later is A...
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Premiere i helvede
About an American's reaction to the Dane's way of chatting about each other. Behind their backs. A r...
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Prop and Berta
Prop & Berta is the story of a friendship between a little stout man and a big and proud cow, who ar...
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Selvmordsskolen
Bizarre satiric tale about an ordinary Danish man disappointed in life and the welfare system. Close...
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Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier
Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema...
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May
An everyday story about a young girl from the countryside and the people she meets when she moves to...
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Faith, Hope and Witchcraft
In the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Troldø lives a single farming family. T...
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Camping
Per is a traveling man who makes a living setting up new campsites—financed by a rather clueless tel...
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Jan går til filmen
Fourteen-year-old Jan and his companion Erling appear as extras in a film being filmed at Nordisk Fi...
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Karen, Maren og Mette
Among the many guests at the Rebild festival is Andreas Andersen, a man in his early 30s. But he has...
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Final Act
FINAL ACT is based on Noel Coward's play "Waiting in the Wings". Even the smallest events turn into...
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Rainfox
A crime melodrama set in the world of horse racing. A trainer is wrongfully accused of doping a hors...
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Vores lille by
Our small town is a fairly ordinary collection of houses in a random location in Denmark, inhabited ...
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Det er så yndigt at følges ad
Who decides where the cupboard should go in a marriage? The film begins with three cheerful movers, ...
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The Chronic Innocence
For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is gratefu...
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