August Blom

August Blom was born in Copenhagen in 1869. An actor from 1893, first in Kolding, he played at the Folketeatret from 1907 to 1910 and joined Nordisk in 1908 as a film actor; he moved into directing in 1910 and almost immediately became head of production. He launched the career of Valdemar Psilander, made a blockbuster based on Gerhart Hauptmann in 1913 and directed more than a hundred films until the mid-twenties. He then ran a cinema and died in Copenhagen in 1947.

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• CinemaThe White SlaveDen hvide slavehandelAugust Blom · 1910Cinema