Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer 3 February 1889 20 March 1968 commonly known as Carl Th Dreyer was a Danish film director He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema His best known films include The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Vampyr 1932 Day of Wrath 1943 Ordet 1955 and Gertrud 1964 Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen Denmark His birth mother was an unmarried Scanian maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson and he was put up for adoption by his birth father Jens Christian Torp a married Danish farmer living in Sweden who was his mothers employer He spent the first two years of his life in orphanages until his adoption by a typographer named Carl Theodor Dreyer and his wife Inger Marie née Olsen He was named after his adoptive father but in accordance with Danish practice there is no Senior or Junior added to their names to distinguish them from each other From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia