Jens Peter Hammerich, better known as Rumle Hammerich (born 16 November 1954), is a

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and film company director. He is currently creative director at

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. His filmography consists of both feature films and

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s and

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in Denmark as well as Sweden. His mini series

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—which describes the formative

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years of

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— won an

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for Best international TV Movie/Mini Series in 2005. His crime series

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( da, Livvagterne) won the 2009

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for the best television drama series.

Biography

Jens Peter Hammerich was born on 16 November 1954 in

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to translator Ida Elisabeth Hammerich and Paul Hammerich, journalist, writer and

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at the national Danish newspaper

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. From an early age he was called Rumle and when his father in 1959 asked her mother to translate

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's comic strip

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for Politiken, she gave the perpetually dirty boy

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her son's nickname. He graduated from the

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in 1979, and had his debut as a feature film director in 1983 with the children film ''Otto er et næsehorn'' "Otto Is a Rhino". After working in

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in the early 1990s, directing films such as the horror film

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and the children film '' Kan du vissla Johanna?'', he was made the director of national Danish television station DR's fiction department in 1994. In 1998 he left DR and the following year he joined

, where he led the subsidiary Nordisk Film Produktion until 2003 when he was made creative director of the company.

Filmography

Directing

Feature films

* '' Otto er et næsehorn'' (1983) * '' The Dog That Smiled'' (1989) * ''

'' (1992) * ''

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'' (2009)

TV series and film

* '' Dårfinkar & dönickar'', TV series (3 episodes, 1988–90) * '' Fasadklättraren'', TV (1991) * '' Lærerværelset'', TV (6 episodes, 1994) * '' Kan du vissla Johanna?'', TV (1994) * ''

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'', TV series (2 episodes, 1997) * ''

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'', mini series (2000) * ''

'', mini series (2005) * ''

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'', series 4, 2018

Documentaries

* '' Cliff Forrest'', documentary (2007)

Producing

Feature films

* '' Once in a Lifetime'', executive producer (2000) * ''

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'', associate producer (2002) * '' Suxxess'', co-producer (2002) * '' Lykkevej'', executive producer (2003) * '' En som Hodder'', executive producer (2003) * ''

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'', creative producer (2004)

TV series

* ''

'', executive producer (1997) * ''

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'', executive producer (1998) * '' Rundt om Panduro'', executive producer (1998) * ''

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'', executive producer (1 episode, 2002) * Forsvar, executive producer (2003)

Documentaries

* '' Facing the Truth'', executive producer (2002) * '' Cliff Forrest'' (2007)

Screenwriting

Feature films

* '' Den Sidste detalje'' (1981) * ''

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'' (1981) * '' Otto er et næsehorn'' (1983) * '' Skyggen af Emma'' (1988) * ''

'' (1992) * ''

'' (2009)

TV series and films

* ''

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'', story (1987) * '' Fasadklättraren'', TV (1991) * '' Satirica'', TV series (1993) * '' Mellem venner'', idea (1995) * ''

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'', co-writer (2000) * ''

'' (2005)

References

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