Birte Tove (

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Birte Tove Sørensen; 1945–2016), was a Danish actress and nude model. She is best known for her work in the 1970s

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(), an erotic film series produced by

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. Her films were popular internationally, and in

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she was nicknamed, "the Danish Elizabeth Taylor". Alongside her modeling and acting career, Tove trained as a nurse, and she worked for several years in home care.

Biography

Birte Tove was born on 16 January 1945 in

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, Denmark. She had been married Ole Brix Schächter from October 1970 until 1995, which ended in divorce. Tove was the mother of 2 children, including actors Anne Katrine Tove Brix and . In 1967, she first appeared as a model in

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, a Danish tabloid newspaper. In 1969, Tove had her first acting role in the American–Danish film ''

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'' (1971; ), where she played a free-spirited flight attendant looking for love. Throughout the 1970s, she starred in many

, often alongside actor

Ole Søltoft Ole Søltoft (8 January 1941 – 9 May 1999 in Kolding) was a Denmark, Danish actor who became an icon of the 1970s wave of Danish erotic feature film comedies. For over a decade he starred or co-starred in nearly all notable films in this genre a ...

. She lived in Hong Kong from 1972 until 1975, where she worked with the

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and filmed ''Sexy Girls of Denmark'' (1973), ''Bamboo House of Dolls'' (1973), and ''The Mini Skirt Gang'' (1975). Tove died on 6 February 2016 from

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Filmography

Film

Television

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