Ib Schønberg
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Ib Christian Albert von Cotta Schønberg 23 October 1902 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 24 September 1955 (aged 52) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1920–1955 |
| Spouse(s) | Astrid Inger Lisbeth Hammer |
| Awards | Bodil Award Best Supporting Actor 1948 Take What You Want Bodil Award Best Supporting Actor 1951 Cafe Paradis |
Ib Christian Albert von Cotta Schønberg (23 October 1902 – 24 September 1955) was a Danish film actor, and is considered one of the leading actors of Danish film in the 20th century.
The son of a chemist, Ib Schønberg was interested in acting from an early age. He made his debut in 1920 and worked for more than ten years as a stage actor.
Schønberg made his screen debut in Benjamin Christensen's 1922 horror/documentary Häxan. By the 1930s he was an established comic actor, often in main roles as leaders of buffoon duos, well-meaning policemen, or more substantial “uncle types”. During World War II he suddenly appeared as a dramatic actor, and from then until his death he maintained his position as one of the greatest actors of Danish art films, playing serious roles alongside comic roles.
He was well known for his ability to perform “the colossus with feet of clay”, apparently solid and superior characters — both sympathetic and unsympathetic — who fall apart by the end of the film. Among his best-known serious performances are his mean-cultivated informer type in Afsporet (1942 - Derailed); his leader af a children’s home, a sadist with shattered nerves in the social film Kampen mod uretten (1949 - The Struggle Against Injustice) and his two portraits of alcoholics in Ta’ hvad du vil ha’ (1947 – Take What You Want) and Café Paradis (1951). In his later years he was a regular participant in the so-called “Morten Korch films” (based upon the regional novels of a very popular Danish light literate) often placed as the fatherly friend of the hero and his serial role as a widower with children in the popular Far til fire (The Father of Four) films.
Apart from a few Swedish movies, Schønberg made only Danish films. In 1940 he was offered the role of Martin Luther in a Hollywood production, but he turned it down.
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