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Filmmaker · Denmark

Erik Balling

Died in 2005

Erik Balling was born in Nyborg in 1924, the son of a pastor. He joined Nordisk in 1946 as an assistant, became head of production there in 1954 and then director in 1957, the youngest in the history of the company, and moved into directing in the early fifties. With the set designer Henning Bahs he made the thirteen comedies about a gang of small-time crooks, from 1968 to 1981, and created two of the country's most popular series for television. He died in Gentofte in 2005.

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