''The Clown'' (Danish: ''Klovnen'') is a 1926 Danish silent

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directed by A.W. Sandberg and starring

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Karina Bell Karina Bell ( – ) was a Danish film actress.Glavin p.211 Selected filmography * ''David Copperfield'' (1922) * ''Little Dorrit'' (1924) * ''Mists of the Past'' (1925) * '' The Clown'' (1926) * '' The Last Night'' (1928) * ''Phantoms of Happine ...

and

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. It is a remake of a 1917 film of the same title, also directed by Sandberg.Thorsen p.120 The film's sets were designed by the

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Cast

as Joe Higgins *

as Daisy *

as Circus director James Bunding * Robert Schmidt as Marcel Phillipe * Kate Fabian as Graciella *

Karen Caspersen Karen Caspersen (20 August 1890 – 14 May 1941) was a Danish actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1910 and 1939. She was credited as Karen Sandberg in the Danish version of ''Blind Justice'' (1916), as well as Katherine Sande ...

Mathilde Nielsen Mathilde Nielsen (26 October 1858 – 11 September 1945) was a Danish actress in the theatre and in Danish cinema. She was known as a figure of matriarchy in Danish film. Selected filmography *'' Hævnens nat'' 1916 *'' Prästänkan'' 1920 *'' ...

* Jacoba Jessen * Holger Pedersen * Eric Bertner as Pierre Beaumont * Peter Nielsen * Henry Seemann *

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* Edmonde Guy as Lilian Delrme * Ernst Van Duren as *

Sigurd Langberg Sigurd Bengt Langberg (29 October 1897 – 8 July 1954) was a Danish stage and film actor. He was married to actress Karna Langberg and was the father of actors Ebbe and Jesper Langberg. Filmography *''Han, hun og Hamlet'' (1922) *'' Ole Opf ...

as Clown *

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as Butler

References

Bibliography

* Thorsen, Isak. ''Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906-1924: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear''. Indiana University Press, 2017.

External links

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