
Arthur Jensen
Acting
Arthur Jensen was originally trained as a tailor and later educated at the Royal Theatre's student school 1920-23 and had an extensive theatre career. He experienced his heyday on television after passing the age of 70. He never achieved the same heights in film as he did in television, with roles such as caretaker Meyer in Huset på Christianshavn (1970-77) and clerk Schwan from Damernes Magasin in Matador (1978-81). With the exception of when he reprised the character of caretaker Meyer in Erik Balling's film version of the TV series, Ballade på Christianshavn (1971). It was his best film performance. He portrayed the two TV series characters shamelessly on his distinctive type: the comically aunty as caretaker Meyer and the sly and vain as clerk Schwan. What could have ended up as a gay caricature becomes human portraits in the garb of folk comedy, not least thanks to Arthur Jensen's humor, which at once shows solidarity and irony with the characters. It took a long time for Arthur Jensen to discovery who he was as an actor. After four silent film supporting roles at Fy&Bi, he formed a comedic duo with Ib Schønberg in several of Alice O'Fredericks' and Lau Lauritzen's energetic prank farces in the 1930s, but the fun is sporadic, and the inventions are often self-satisfied and infantile. His recurring role as a whiny spanking boy for the healthy guys in these films, including director Lauritzen himself, are particularly unfunny and almost unpleasant.

Mifune
Rud's friend

Jeppe på Bjerget
Jacobæus Lakaj

Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
Kanonkongen Don Kraus

The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
Parking Attendant

Holidays in jail
Klausen

Agent 69 Jensen in the Sign of Sagittarius
Detective Assistant Mortensen

Vandalism

The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
Borgmester Stærmose

The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
Niels Peter Nielsen

Girls at Sea
Examination Invigilator

Agent 69 in the Sign of Scorpio
Togmand

The Moelleby affair
Nikolajsen, barber

Bedside Sailors

In the Sign of the Lion

Jumpin' at the Bedside
Hr. Madsen

Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde
Vagtmand

In the Sign of the Gemini
Leopold

Come to My Bedside
Manager

The Son from Vingaarden
Jeppe

Nøddebo præstegård
Mads Hjulmand

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Nattevagt

Fætrene på Torndal
Mikkel

Bedside Romance
Æhrlig-Jensen

The Man from Swan Farm
Mikkel

The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Kongen - Victor Emanuel Jensen

Bedside Highway
Piversen

Bedside Dentist
Johansen

Our Home Is Our Castle
Arnold Hannibal Meyer

Bedroom Mazurka
Hr. Hansen (uncredited)

The Song of the Red Ruby
Zebedæussen

Ta' lidt solskin
Ludvig

Ladies Man
Jens
En nat i Venedig
Delacqua

Stormvarsel
Bette Magnus

The Olsen Gang
Arbejder ved banen

Me and My Kid Brother
Amtmanden

Nyhavns glade gutter
Peter Jensen

Pretty-Arne and Rosa

The Loose Tile
Janitor at school

Utro

Flagermusen

Old Maids
Petersen

Dyden går amok
Ivar, fisker

Strike First Freddy

Een pige og 39 sømænd
Hovmesteren

Jensen længe leve!
Røde Einar

Erik Soya's 17
Konduktøren

Don Olsen kommer til byen
Redaktør Holm

Five men and Rosa
Helmer Gamtofte

Mord for åbent tæppe
Læge Jens Anthonsen

Bussen

Hvad med os?
Vred mand på gaden

Vi har det jo dejligt

The Girl and the Press Photographer

Venus fra Vestø
Pive Ras

Crazy Paradise
Een blandt mange

To skøre ho'der
Redaktør

Champagnegaloppen

Boy of Two Worlds
Stationmaster

Den kloge mand

Kristiane af Marstal
Harald

Vores lille by
Henry - klokker

I kongens klæ'r
Jens Hik

Et eventyr om tre
Nicolai

Min søn Peter

Den gamle mølle paa Mols
Karlsen

The Tove Andersen Criminal Case
Sprit Ole

Kristinus Bergman
Snedker
Stop Tyven!

Familien Olsen
Hr. Borck

Under byens tage
Gram

Flaadens blaa matroser
Christian Langtoft

Incognito
Butler Eriksen

Danmark for Folket
Olsen

Giftes - nej tak!

Panserbasse
Lasse

Snushanerne
Lasse, Filmsforfatter

Week-end
Styrmand

Kidnapped
Larsen

Barken Margrethe
Lille Mikkel

København, Kalundborg og -?

Ud i den kolde sne
Tjener Johan

It Happened in Copenhagen

Fem raske piger

He, She and Hamlet

Tretten Aar
Kontorist Hannibal Petersen

The Mannequins
Downstairs neighbor







