Poul Bang (17 February 1905 – 6 July 1967) was a Danish
film producer
A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, di ...
and
director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
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. He produced 24 films between 1950 and 1967. He also directed 23 films between 1943 and 1963.
Life
He was the son of Camillo Cavour Bang (1861–1949) and Augusta Pouline Boas (1868–1919). His brother
Peter Boas Bang, five years older, was founder and co-owner of
Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is a Danish high-end consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets, and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, who designed a radio to work with alt ...
, where his father was for a time chairman of the board.
Bang was trained as an engineer and started working as a
sound engineer
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at Fotorama in 1932.
He later worked at
Palladium
Palladium is a chemical element with the symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself na ...
and
ASA Film
ASA Filmudlejning is a noted Danish film studio founded in 1936 and based in Hellerup, Copenhagen. It produced approximately 90 films between 1936 and 1988 although the bulk of its production was in the 1940s and 1950s. During this period, amo ...
before becoming production manager, instructor and director at
Saga Studio
Saga Studio (or Saga Film A/S) was a film production company in Denmark founded by John Olsen. The company existed from 1942 to 1976.
History
Several years after Olsen co-founded ASA Film Studio with Lau Lauritzen Jr. and Henning Karmark, t ...
.
He was also a teacher at the film school.
On 21 June 1930 Bang married Ebba Charlotte Valeur (1907-65), with whom he had four children: Lise, Mette, Niels, and Anne.
At Saga Studio in 1943 he met the young photographer
Annelise Reenberg
Annelise Reenberg (16 September 1919 – 12 December 1994) was a Danish cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. She directed 23 films between 1950 and 1971.
Filmography (selected)
* ' (1950)
* '' 24 timer'' (1951)
* '' Fra den gamle ...
; they were married on 10 May 1967.
Bang died in 1967 during the filming of in Austria.
He is buried at
Bispebjerg Cemetery
Bispebjerg Cemetery (Danish: Bispebjerg Kirkegård), established in 1903 on the moderately graded north slope of Bispebjerg Hill, is the newest of five municipal cemeteries in Copenhagen, Denmark. The main entrance to the cemetery is located next ...
.
Filmography
References
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1905 births
1967 deaths
Film directors from Copenhagen
Danish film producers
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