Johan Jacobsen


Johan Jacobsen was a Danish film director. His parents were theatre manager Jacob Jørgen Jacobsen and actress Christel Holch.
From the 1940s Jacobsen directed a number of both popular and critically acclaimed films for the film studio Palladium.
From 1947 onwards he was an independent director and producer. He produced his own films and those of his partner Annelise Hovmand at his own film studio Flamingo.
In 1959 he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
His A Stranger Knocks was in competition at the San Francisco International Film Festival 1960. It was distributed in the US by Trans-Lux and played a major part in bringing down the American State Film Censorship system in 1965.
In his last years Jacobsen worked for tycoon Simon Spies at his cinema Merkur Bio in Copenhagen.

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