Johan Jacobsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish film director
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Place of Birth: Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
About Johan Jacobsen
- Johan Jacobsen (born 14 March 1912 in Aarhus – died 7 July 1972 in Copenhagen) was a Danish film director.
- His parents were theatre manager Jacob Jørgen Jacobsen (1865-1955) and actress Christel Holch (1886-1968). From the 1940s Jacobsen directed a number of both popular and critically acclaimed films for the film studio Palladium. From 1947 onwards he was an independent director and producer.
- He produced his own films and those of his partner Annelise Hovmand (1924-2016) at his own film studio Flamingo. In 1959 he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.His A Stranger Knocks (1959) was in competition at the San Francisco International Film Festival 1960.
- It was distributed in the US by Trans-Lux and played a major part in bringing down the American State Film Censorship system in 1965.In his last years Jacobsen worked for tycoon Simon Spies (1921-1984) at his cinema Merkur Bio in Copenhagen.
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