DIRCH PASSER

When he was young he was very shy, and had a dream of becoming an actor, but consented to his father´s wishes by attending J. Lauritzen´s sea training school near Svendborg in 1944. Since he had a ongoing problem with seasickness, so he started at “De Frederiksbergske teatres Elevskole”. In the 1950s he formed a duo with his colleague and friend Kjeld Petersen. Their revue sketches, based by the contrast between Petersen´s mixture of joviality and desperate anger and Passer´s deadpan responses, are still considered classics by the public. The sudden death of Kjeld Petersen in 1962 led Passer to avoid revues for five years, but built up an individual reputation and in 1967 he returned to the revue for new triumphs. Many of the thin jokes in the scripts were greatly improved by his performance. Special, his many amiable eccentrics and “nature experts” together with his sketch roles as a baby and as a nonsense “Russian” – speaking clown made him very famous. Some of the most famous movies he has been within are: “Sommer I Tyrol”,  “Han, hun, Dirch og Dario” and “ Baronessen fra benzintanken”.   - Hanna Jørgensen 7.I

Born in: 18 May 1926

Death in: 3 September 1980