Biography
Søren Pilmark was born on October 16, 1955 in Copenhagen, Denmark as Søren Louis Pilmark. He is an actor and writer, known for Flickering Lights (2000), King's Game (2004) and The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ørkenens Sønner: Fingeren på pølsen
2025
as Omar Papa
At a time when everyone is turning off the gas and saving electricity, it can be difficult to remain optimistic and hopeful for better times. But fear...

Ørkenens Sønner: Fingeren på pølsen
2025
Director, Writer
At a time when everyone is turning off the gas and saving electricity, it can be difficult to remain optimistic and hopeful for better times. But fear...

The Insane Experiment
2023
as Chief Physician Einar Geert-Jørgensen
From 1960 to 1973, Chief Physician Einar Geert-Jørgensen and a small select team of doctors treated several hundred Danish psychiatric patients with L...

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
as Self / Jørgen Krogshøj
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script t...

Ørkenens Sønner: En fez i en hornlygte
2022
as Omar-Papa

Ørkenens Sønner: En fez i en hornlygte
2022
Director, Writer

The Purity of Vengeance
2018
as Marcus Jacobsen
Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institut...

Downsizing
2017
as Dr. Andreas Jacobsen
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...

The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear
2017
as Ulysses Karlsen (voice)
Life in Solby is nice and peaceful until one day Mitcho and Sebastian find a message in a bottle by the harbour. The bottle is from the missing mayor ...

The Man
2017
as David
Simon is the king of the Danish art scene - eccentric, successful, wealthy, with a beautiful wife and a young mistress. Life is beautiful, until the d...

Ørkenens Sønner: Een gang til for prins Knud
2016
as Omar-Papa
Our old lodge brothers are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. This is being celebrated with the release of their eighth show! The show was ...

Ørkenens Sønner: Een gang til for prins Knud
2016
Writer, Director
Our old lodge brothers are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. This is being celebrated with the release of their eighth show! The show was ...

A Conspiracy of Faith
2016
as Marcus Jacobsen
Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department ...

The Last King
2016
as Bishop
Norway, 1204. A civil war between the birkebeiners —the king's men— and the baglers —supporters of the Norwegian aristocracy and the Church— ravages t...

The Christmas Family
2014
as Campingfatter
'Familien Jul' is a Danish family film, where Hugo's father hates July Neither elves, men or Christmas gifts can get him in the Christmas mood, and he...

1864: Brødre i krig
2014
as Lundbye
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.

The Absent One
2014
as Marcus Jacobsen
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a loca...
The Big Test
2014
as Karl
Emma loves her parents and her dog Sif, but the family has a secret.

The Keeper of Lost Causes
2013
as Marcus Jacobsen
Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the di...

Sorrow and Joy
2013
as Advokaten
Filmmaker Johannes and his wife, schoolteacher Signe, experience the biggest sorrow and misfortune one can ever imagine. Nevertheless, in all the hope...

Ørkenens Sønner: Varm luft i Canal Grande
2012
as Omar-Papa

Ørkenens Sønner: Varm luft i Canal Grande
2012
Writer

Kon-Tiki
2012
as Freuchen
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was...

Therapy
2010
as Ulrik
Anders and Puk move into their dream house which is still in a state of refurbishment. To be able to afford the expense, they decide to rent the basem...

At World's End
2009
as Consul
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recl...

Aching Hearts
2009
as Agnete's father
Set in the early 1960s, the story revolves around high school sweethearts Jonas and Agnete, their friendships and families, trials and tribulations.

Ørkenens Sønner: En sang fra de varme lande
2008
as Omar-Papa
The fifth stage show from Ørkenens Sønner from their 2007 tour "En sang fra de varme lande" - this show is set in the African jungle.

Ørkenens Sønner: En sang fra de varme lande
2008
Writer
The fifth stage show from Ørkenens Sønner from their 2007 tour "En sang fra de varme lande" - this show is set in the African jungle.

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
2007
as Mads
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s,...

With Your Permission
2007
as Erik
Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not so ordinary Bente ...

How to Get Rid of the Others
2007
as Christian
A satirical drama revealing the consequences of the Danish government's "New Copenhagen Criteria", a new policy aiming at securing the nation's surviv...

Lotto
2006
as Jørgen
Jørgen manages the lotto club at the factory where he works. If you ask him, he would say he is a good person, even better than most. Then one day, he...
Helmer and Son
2006
Director
A family is called together in unusual circumstances when a nursing home rings them all for help when there elderly father locks himself in a closet a...
Bare Holger
2005
as Christian

Ørkenens Sønner: Et Skud i Tågen
2005
as Omar-Papa
The release marks yet another occasion on which the four actors Søren Pilmark, Niels Olsen, Asger Reher, and Henrik Koefoed have elevated bawdiness to...

Ørkenens Sønner: Et Skud i Tågen
2005
Writer
The release marks yet another occasion on which the four actors Søren Pilmark, Niels Olsen, Asger Reher, and Henrik Koefoed have elevated bawdiness to...

King's Game
2004
as Erik Dreier Jensen
Starting a new job as a political journalist at a leading newspaper, Ulrik Torp witnesses a brutal struggle for power in the Midparty's ranks -- a str...

Aftermath
2004
as Nisse
A young married couple has to deal with their emotional breakdowns after the death of their only daughter.

Stealing Rembrandt
2003
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rem...

Ørkenens Sønner: En Storm i Et Glas Vand
2001
as Omar-Papa
A spectacular show featuring the four extraordinary lodge brothers Khamel Ull-Zuut, Yassirfir Dosirfem, Omar Papa, and Ali Bubbas Barkhahr from the my...

Ørkenens Sønner: En Storm i Et Glas Vand
2001
Writer
A spectacular show featuring the four extraordinary lodge brothers Khamel Ull-Zuut, Yassirfir Dosirfem, Omar Papa, and Ali Bubbas Barkhahr from the my...

Kat
2001
as Peter Hald
Due to a failed séance of her flat mate's quirky grandparents, the cat of law student Maria gets possessed by demonic powers and starts some horrible ...

Anna
2000
as Tom
A woman helps a prisoner free at Rome's airport and then falls in love with him.

Flickering Lights
2000
as Torkild
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to...

The Major
1998
as Stig Møller

The Kingdom II
1997
as Jørgen Krogshøj
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "t...

Ørkenens Sønner: Gå aldrig tilbage til en fuser
1997
as Omar-Papa
As summer arrived in Denmark, Ørkenens Sønner took to the stage at Bellevue Teatret on Thursday, June 5, in front of an excited premiere audience. The...

Ørkenens Sønner: Gå aldrig tilbage til en fuser
1997
Writer
As summer arrived in Denmark, Ørkenens Sønner took to the stage at Bellevue Teatret on Thursday, June 5, in front of an excited premiere audience. The...
Den store kul-tur
1996
as Klosterstad
What does a desperate mayor of culture do when he is handed a stack of millions with instructions to make it a success? What does a cultural city cons...

The Beast Within
1995
as Præsten
A contemporary offbeat portrayal of a mixed lot of provincial people before during and after a baptism, a funeral and a wedding ceremony. At the centr...

Forsmåelse
1995
as Self
Fauli plays himself as the overlooked film director who never gets recognition. He is frustrated to a maniacal degree that everyone seems to win prize...

Dansk på 1'eren- Nytår Special
1994
as Ørkenens Sønner

The Kingdom
1994
as Jørgen Krogshøj
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff a...

Ørkenens Sønner
1994
as Omar-Papa
Meet the four lodge brothers from the Sons of the Desert and their secret lodge, where discipline is strictly enforced with sashes, tuxedos, and manda...

Ørkenens Sønner
1994
Writer
Meet the four lodge brothers from the Sons of the Desert and their secret lodge, where discipline is strictly enforced with sashes, tuxedos, and manda...

Roses and Parsley
1993
as Benny
Pianist Benny loses his heart to a hair dresser, who is already in a relationship with a married man. Things get even more complicated since all three...

The Screaming Throats
1993
as Djarnis
Copenhagen 1984. Ronni is a young, mediocre punk-guitarist, eager to make it big in the death obsessed late-punk milieu. But his girlfriend has left h...

Camping
1990
as Søren
Per is a traveling man who makes a living setting up new campsites—financed by a rather clueless telephone company and a gawking power plant. Søren ha...

Peter von Scholten
1987
He freed the slaves in 1848. He spoke out against the king and the government. He loved his wives equally. He was colorful, he was autocratic, he was ...

Mikkels motiver
1985
as Per
Mikkel is given the opportunity to advance to deputy director of the company, and now the director has invited Mikkel and his wife to dinner at his ho...

Pallesen Pilmark Show
1984
The Pallesen Pilmark Show was a Danish musical comedy show featuring Per Pallesen and Søren Pilmark. The style was wordless deadpan with a series of p...

May
1983
as Kurt
An everyday story about a young girl from the countryside and the people she meets when she moves to the big city to train as a hairdresser.

Christmas by Your Friends
1978
as Salesman
Mads' father’s company is too small for a proper Christmas tree party, so Mads decides to arrange his own for himself and his best friend. But arrangi...

Kassen stemmer
1976
Three young men discover a scam that three somewhat older gentlemen from Aarhus' upper class have set up to avoid bankruptcy. The gentlemen directors ...

Den kære familie
1962
Copenhagen around the turn of the century - December 29th, 1899. Great merchant and shipowner Jacob Friis is one of Copenhagen's richest men. His home...