Filmmaker · Denmark
Ole Roos
Died in 2018
Ole Roos was born in Copenhagen on 6 June 1937, son of the critic and director Karl Roos and of an archivist at the film museum; his sister Lise is a director, his cousin Peter a cinematographer, and his uncle Jørgen Roos was a leading documentary filmmaker. An apprentice photographer at Minerva Film from 1954 to 1956, then an assistant director, he directed from the sixties onwards documentaries, short films and fiction films, mostly drawn from Danish literature. In the seventies he renewed Danish television drama. He died on 4 February 2018.