Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1932-02-02

Deathday 2000-11-15 (68 years old)

Place of Birth Denmark

Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Biography

Jens Jørgen Thorsen (February 2, 1932 Holstebro - November 15, 2000) was a Danish artist, director, and jazz musician whose works sometimes created controversy. Thorsen began his artistic career attending periodically the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. However he chose to produce and create art that was meant to be provocative. This included a number of public displays protesting various governmental issues.Thorsen also wrote, directed, and starred in a number of films, the most notable of them being Stille dage i Clichy, based on a Henry Miller novel. In painting, Thorsen also stirred up controversy with a work depicting Jesus in a manner some considered pornographic. Thorsen planned a film called The Many Faces of Jesus, which was about the sex life of Jesus, and was to have involved both heterosexual and homosexual acts. The film was to have been made in Britain, but it faced intense opposition from pressure groups, as well as from the Queen, then Prime Minister James Callaghan, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan. The film was never made. Thorsen painted a number of abstract works, which have become increasingly collectible. He was also a jazz musician and co-founder of the group "Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jens Jørgen Thorsen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

1992
The Return

as Director

1991
Light

as Director

1974
Wet Dreams

as Director

1970
1969
Et år med Henry

as Director

1966
Herning 1965

as Director

1963
Stop for Bud

as Director

1963
Pornoshop

as Director

Writer

1991
Light

as Writer

1970
1966
Herning 1965

as Screenplay

Producer

1991
Light

as Producer

Camera

1991
Light

as Director of Photography

Editor

1991
Light

as Editor