
Acting
Jan 21, 1936
Randers, Danmark
Peter Steen
Acting
Biography
Peter Steen blev født i Randers i 1936. Han blev student i 1954 og studerede medicin et par år. I 1960 blev han optaget på Det kongelige Teaters elevskole, og i 1963 blev han ansat på teatret. I 1974 blev han freelance og spillede en lang række roller bl.a. på Rialto Teatret, Folketeatret og Odense Teater. Siden slutningen af 1970'erne har han været iscenesætter af en række teaterstykker. Han har været gift fire gange, bl.a. med væversken Kim Naver og skuespilleren Lisbet Lundquist. Hans erindringer "Tak skæbne" giver et klart indblik i hans liv og karriere.
Feature Films (42)

Five young siblings deal with a reluctant chaperone when they wind up stranded on a trip to Egypt.
My Sister's Kids In Egypt

The boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and right away, you have a real rhino for a companion. A little heavy perhaps, when you live on the second floor. No matter, it's a modern fairy-tale of the baroque, and everything goes. Based on kiddie entertainment by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, but as was the case with the book, the fun is to be enjoyed by one and all.
Otto Is a Rhino

The first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gang in Denmark and eventually Europe by stealing a famous Bavarian work of art currently displayed in a Copenhagen museum. Although Egon's plan works out fine, there is only trouble ahead for the little gang.
The Olsen Gang

The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.
The Olsen Gang in Jutland

Three out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station.
Going for Broke

About a businessman who murders his stepdaughter after having an affair with her. A crematorium worker who secretly sells coffins to an undertaker discovers two bodies in one of the coffins one day. He suspects what has happened and tries to blackmail the murderer for money.
The Parallel Corpses

A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent.
The Olsen Gang in a Fix

Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks in the department store Magasin du Nord, just in time for their closing sale. The attempt to get the red suitcase that will save the day they rob the main vault at the EEC headquarters in Brussels and end up hijacking a tank.
The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders

Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
Reconstruction

A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn between his chosen life and his sense of duty to his family and its past. When he chooses to step in as manager his family life and self-respect languish.
The Inheritance

A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that fundamentally transforms Hans Christian's life.
Young Andersen

Susanne is going to the countryside to visit Ditmar. Ditmar has been abroad for over a year, and in the meantime, Susanne has given birth to Lulu without Ditmar's knowledge. Susanne's good friend and nanny, Andreas, accompanies her to the estate. Andreas and Lulu are assumed to be the butler and his daughter. Andreas agrees to the idea so that he can keep an eye on Susanne. However, Andreas falls in love with the daughter of the house, who believes he has a wife. At the same time, Susanne tries to tell Ditmar that Lulu is their child.
The Girl and the Viscount
Television & Series (18)

One Big Family is a Danish television series in 12 episodes, first broadcast in 1982-1983. The series was directed by Bent Mejding, while the script was written in turns by Lise Nørgaard, Paul Hammerich and Jane Aamund. The series is produced by Nordisk Film for Danmarks Radio.
One Big Family

In 1970s Denmark, the criminal police in a provincial town solve different criminal cases, when the police was dominated by men and DNA was not yet a tool in investigation.
A Town in the Province

Crash - Truslen fra det sorte hul is a 1984 Danish children's science fiction TV-series which was written, directed and produced by Carsten Overskov and starred Lars Ranthe. Crash was produced and broadcast by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and was also broadcast by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in Norway and by Sveriges Television in Sweden in summer 1985. It was a major production but was not successful in Denmark. Carsten Overskov published a book called Truslen fra det sorte hul, also in 1984. Some 20 years after the broadcast DR was given means to digitalize the series along with other Danish productions such as Tonny Toupé Show, Casper og Mandrilaftalen and Gotha.








