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- Birth nameOve Wendelboe Sprogøe Petersen
- Height5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)
- Ove Sprogøe was one of Denmark's finest and most treasured actors. Born in 1919 in Odense, where he also grew up, his parents were Arthur and Inger Sprogøe. He married his wife Eva in 1945, the same year as his stage debut at Folketeatret in Copenhagen.
Through a long career in film, television and theatre, his most famous role was as Egon Olsen in the film series "Olsenbanden". The characters and the 14 films are common ground for all Danes and also became popular in Germany as well as in Norway and Sweden where local versions were produced.
Even so, Sprogøe was always able to maintain a diverse range as an actor, playing all genres on stage as well as on screen. This included a multitude of popular comedies, a recurring role in the popular series Matador (1978) and a great number of variety shows.
Ove Sprogøe died in the fall of 2004 and is remembered as one of the true greats of Danish film.
- IMDb mini biography by: Peter Brandt Nielsen
- SpouseEva Rasmussen(March 29, 1945 - August 20, 2004) (her death, 3 children)
- Children
- RelativesJacob Sprogøe(Grandchild)Mathias Sprogøe Fletting(Grandchild)Johannes Sprogøe Fletting(Grandchild)
- Shortly after his death in September of 2004, Nordisk Film - the production company behind all the Olsen-banden movies - established the Ove Sprogøe Scholarship Foundation. The foundation will pay scholarships to young and promising actors, actresses and directors.
- Ove Sprogøe will get the road to the (Vridsløselille Statsfængsel) Vridsløselille State prison, where he ends up in most of the Olsen Banden movies, named after his character, (Egon Olsen Vej) Egon Olsen Road. The Albertslund city council has approved the name of the owned private road (though the road is private, its owned by the Danish state.). The new sign is expected to be up before Christmas 2004.
The idea for the name change came from two inmates that through the Danish newspaper Ekstra bladet, suggested it. - He never owned a TV set, mainly because he was afraid he would end up doing nothing else than watching TV.
- On 24. of October 2005, the city of Odense, Denmark (Ove Sprogøes birth town) named a city square in his honor.
- He and his wife owned and lived in the private house closest to the runways at Copenhagen Airport (CPH). He loved his house in Tømmerup, and he keept on living there even as the airport expanded closer and closer to his house.
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