Arthur Jensen
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.
Agent 69 in the Sign of Scorpio
(Togmand)
The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
(Borgmester Stærmose)
Old Maids
(Petersen)
Girls at Sea
(Examination Invigilator)
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
(Kongen - Victor Emanuel Jensen)
Ta' lidt solskin
(Ludvig)
Don Olsen kommer til byen
(Redaktør Holm)
Nyhavns glade gutter
(Peter Jensen)
Een pige og 39 sømænd
(Hovmesteren)
Five men and Rosa
(Helmer Gamtofte)
Our Home Is Our Castle
(Arnold Hannibal Meyer)
Den gamle mølle paa Mols
(Karlsen)
Familien Olsen
(Hr. Borck)
Holidays in jail
(Klausen)
Fætrene på Torndal
(Mikkel)
The Son from Vingaarden
(Jeppe)
Jeppe på Bjerget
(Jacobæus Lakaj)
Venus fra Vestø
(Pive Ras)
Kristiane af Marstal
(Harald)
Dyden går amok
(Ivar, fisker)
Stormvarsel
(Bette Magnus)
Jensen længe leve!
(Røde Einar)
Panserbasse
(Lasse)
Flaadens blaa matroser
(Christian Langtoft)
Incognito
(Butler Eriksen)
The Mannequins
(Downstairs neighbor)
Erik Soya's 17
(Konduktøren)
Come to My Bedside
(Manager)
Nøddebo præstegård
(Mads Hjulmand)
The Song of the Red Ruby
(Zebedæussen)
Ladies Man
(Jens)
I kongens klæ'r
(Jens Hik)
Under byens tage
(Gram)
Snushanerne
(Lasse, Filmsforfatter)
Ud i den kolde sne
(Tjener Johan)
Hvad med os?
(Vred mand på gaden)
Crazy Paradise
Et eventyr om tre
(Nicolai)
Me and My Kid Brother
(Amtmanden)
In the Sign of the Lion
The Moelleby affair
(Nikolajsen, barber)
Agent 69 Jensen in the Sign of Sagittarius
(Detective Assistant Mortensen)
In the Sign of the Gemini
(Leopold)
Barken Margrethe
(Lille Mikkel)
Bussen
Københavnere
The Olsen Gang
(Arbejder ved banen)
The Man from Swan Farm
(Mikkel)
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
(Nattevagt)
The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
(Niels Peter Nielsen)
The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
(Parking Attendant)
The Girl and the Press Photographer
Strike First Freddy
Vi har det jo dejligt
Den kloge mand
Vandalism
Flagermusen
Jumpin' at the Bedside
(Hr. Madsen)
Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
(Kanonkongen Don Kraus)
Bedroom Mazurka
(Hr. Hansen (uncredited))
Mifune
(Rud's friend)
Mord for åbent tæppe
(Læge Jens Anthonsen)
Bedside Highway
(Piversen)
Bedside Romance
(Æhrlig-Jensen)
The Loose Tile
(Janitor at school)
Bedside Sailors
Bedside Dentist
(Johansen)
Kidnapped
(Larsen)
Tretten Aar
(Kontorist Hannibal Petersen)
Fem raske piger
He, She and Hamlet
Giftes - nej tak!
København, Kalundborg og -?
Boy of Two Worlds
(Stationmaster)
The Tove Andersen Criminal Case
(Sprit Ole)
Min søn Peter
Pretty-Arne and Rosa
En nat i Venedig
(Delacqua)
Kristinus Bergman
(Snedker)
Utro
Vores lille by
(Henry - klokker)
To skøre ho'der
(Redaktør)
Week-end
(Styrmand)
Stop Tyven!
Danmark for Folket
(Olsen)
Champagnegaloppen
Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde
(Vagtmand)
The House at Christianshavn
(Meyer)
Livsens ondskab
(Menneske-Mortensen)
Matador
(Rudolf Schwann)