
Handsome smart tall blonde Danish performer Johannes Meyer born in 1884. After graduating grom Gymnasium, Mayer applied twice to the Royal Theatre School and was twice rejected. He made his stage debut at the Dagmarteatret in Copenhagen in 1905 and went on to perform at nearly every theatre in Copenhagen. He appeared in more than 100 movies, making his first film playing the role of Erneste des Tressailles in Viggo Larsen's 'Revolutionsbryllup' at the Nordist Film Co in 1909, His most memorable role as Viktor Frandsen in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 'Master of the House' at the Palladium Film Co in 1925. He was mostly seen in character or supporting roles in many talkies from 1933 until his last film appearance playing the role of Bilvis in Gabriel Axel's 'Hagbard and Signe' in 1967. He was also active on radio and in T.V. dramas and was stage director of the Fonixteatret and Norrebros Theatre before he was hired by the Royal Theatre in 1941. Died in Denmark in 1972 age 88.
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as Bilvis

as Hr. Bølling

as Dr. Joachim Lindberg

as Zimmermann

as Augustin

as Læge A.H. Bonnesen
as Kaptajn Vilhelm Hammer

as Waiter

as Professor Ferdinand Schrøder

as Højesteretssagfører Hans Ovesen

as Redaktøren på Sallinghavn Amtsavis

as Organist Sørensen

as Vicevært Julius Jensen
as Niels Nielsen



as Jonas Olsen

as Søren Hvass - Storbonde
as Frederik Christensen




as Professor Dreyer, kunstmaler


as Kunstprofessor Abel

as Fabrikant Schmidt

as Herkules' far

as Direktør A. Schram

as Hr. Justesen
as Viktor Frandsen
as Rylowitsch
as Don Fernandez (second sequence)

as Wilton, prokurist

as Officer

as Werner
as Erneste des Tressailles
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