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Filmmaker · Denmark

Jørgen Roos

Died in 1998

Jørgen Roos was born in 1922 in Gilleleje, the son of a school headmaster. In 1945 he founded a film club in Copenhagen with painter friends, worked until 1948 as a cameraman, notably for Carl Th. Dreyer, then wrote, filmed, edited and directed more than a hundred documentaries, portraits of artists, social films and films about Greenland. From 1965 he produced his films in his own company, entered the Academy of Fine Arts in 1985 and died in 1998.

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