Famous People with Name Dirch

Dirch Hartvig Passer            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Dirch Hartvig Passer: was a Danish actor. He was greatly renowned for his improvisational skills and, with a filmography comprising 110 movies, one of the Denmark's most prolific actors.During the 1950s he formed a duo with his colleague and friend Kjeld Petersen. Their revue sketches, based upon the contrast between Petersen’s mixture of joviality and desperate anger and Passer’s deadpan responses, are still classics. The sudden death of Kjeld Petersen in 1962 led Passer to avoid revues for some years, but he built up an individual reputation and in 1967 he returned to the revue gaining new victories. Many thin jokes in the scripts were greatly improved by his performance. In particular, his many amiable eccentrics and “nature experts” together with his sketch roles as a baby and as a nonsense "Russian"-speaking clown made him famous. From his later years must be mentioned an almost silent sketch in which he portrays a man’s vain attempt to stop smoking (also shown in West German TV). It was told that he could speak any language, however he wouldn't understand any of it, which was one of his good qualities.