Birte Tove (née Birte Tove Sørensen; 1945–2016), was a Danish actress and nude model.[1] She is best known for her work in the 1970s Bedside-films (Danish: Sengekantsfilm), an erotic film series produced by A/S Palladium. Her films were popular internationally,[2] and in Hong Kong she was nicknamed, "the Danish Elizabeth Taylor".[2][3]
Birte Tove | |
|---|---|
 Tove in 1969 | |
| Born | Birte Tove Sørensen 16 January 1945 Helsingør, Denmark |
| Died | 6 February 2016 (aged 71) |
| Resting place | Søllerød Cemetery |
| Spouse | Ole Schächter (divorced) |
| Children | 2 |
Alongside her modeling and acting career, Tove trained as a nurse, and she worked for several years in home care.[1]
Biography
editBirte Tove was born on 16 January 1945 in Helsingør, Denmark.[4] She had been married Ole Brix Schächter from October 1970 until 1995, which ended in divorce.[5] Tove was the mother of 2 children, including actors Anne Katrine Tove Brix and Adam Brix Schächter.[1][5]
In 1967, she first appeared as a model in Ekstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid newspaper.[1] In 1969, Tove had her first acting role in the American–Danish film Swedish Fly Girls (1971; Danish: Christa), where she played a free-spirited flight attendant looking for love.[4] Throughout the 1970s, she starred in many Bedside-films, often alongside actor Ole Søltoft.[4] She lived in Hong Kong from 1972 until 1975, where she worked with the Shaw Brothers Studio and filmed Sexy Girls of Denmark (1973), Bamboo House of Dolls (1973), and The Mini Skirt Gang (1975).[4][3]
Tove died on 6 February 2016 from multiple sclerosis.[5]
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Date | Title | Role | Production | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Bedroom Mazurka | Line, youngest daughter | A/S Palladium | |
| 1971 | Swedish Fly Girls | Christa | American International Pictures | [4][6][7][8] |
| 1971 | With Love (Danish: Med kærlig hilsen) | Eve | ||
| 1971 | Bedside Dentist (Danish: Tandlæge på sengekanten) | Nina | A/S Palladium | [9][10] |
| 1972 | Z.P.G. | Nurse | Sagittarius Productions | as Birthe Tove |
| 1972 | Bedside Highway (Danish: Motorvej på sengekanten) | Line, apprentice | A/S Palladium | [4] |
| 1973 | Between the Sheets (Danish: Romantik på sengekanten) | Bine Hansen | A/S Palladium | |
| 1973 | Sexy Girls of Denmark | Shaw Brothers Studio | [11] | |
| 1973 | Bamboo House of Dolls (pinyin: Nu ji zhong ying) | Jennifer | Shaw Brothers Studio | [4][3][12] |
| 1975 | The Mini Skirt Gang | Shaw Brothers Studio | [3] | |
| 1975 | Girls at Arms | Marianne Valdorff | [3] |
Television
edit| Date | Title | Role | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | The Kingdom (miniseries) | Nurse | Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred | [13] |
| 1997 | The Kingdom II, Exodus | [13] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d Hartung, Berit (2016-02-07). "Folkekær skuespillerinde død: 'Vi holdt mor i hånden da hun tog af sted'". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Berlingske Media A/S. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ a b "Birte Tove er død". TV 2 DK (in Danish). 2016-02-07. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ a b c d e Stevenson, Jack (2015-09-02). Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s. McFarland. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-1-4766-1259-1.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Birte Tove". Dansk Film Database. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ a b c Lautrup, John (2016-02-08). "Birte Tove er død". Billed-Bladet (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ Thompson, Howard (21 August 1971). "Movie Review: Christa (1971)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014.
- ^ Laycock, John (1972-04-17). "Sexy Stewardess Crashes". The Windsor Star. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ "Birte Tove". Philadelphia Daily News. 1971-12-18. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ Larsen, Darl (2015-03-06). A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: All the References from African Swallows to Zoot. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4422-4554-9.
- ^ "Sex with Soltoft". Kensington News and Post. 1972-11-03. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ Berry, Michael; Sawada, Chiho (2017-12-31). Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia. University of Hawaii Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-8248-7510-7.
- ^ Weldon, Michael (1996). The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film. Macmillan. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-312-13149-4.
- ^ a b Lumholdt, Jan; Trier, Lars von (2003). Lars Von Trier: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 38–40. ISBN 978-1-57806-532-5.
External links
edit- Birte Tove at IMDb