Biography
Erik Balling was one of the most beloved Danish filmmaker in the 20th century. Balling was a director, a producer and a writer. Erik Balling was mostly famous for creating such TV epics as "Matador" and "Huset På Christianshavn" and the film-series of "Olsen banden". Erik Balling was born the 19th of November 1925 in the Danish city of Nyborg, as a son of a priest. In 1946 Balling was hired as an assistant at "Nordisk Film Kompagni" - the world's oldest film production company. His talent was so...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Skide godt, Balling!
2005

The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
1998
as Erik Balling (uncredited)
Egon escapes from the psychiatric ward, where he has been incarcerated since the gang's last coup. Keld and Benny pick him up, and when Egon, as alway...

The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
1998
Characters, Associate Producer, Script Consultant
Egon escapes from the psychiatric ward, where he has been incarcerated since the gang's last coup. Keld and Benny pick him up, and when Egon, as alway...

Murder in Paradise
1988
Writer
The nameless journalist from Murder in the Dark receives two shocks in quick succession. First, his good friend Kurt is murdered, and then his editor-...
Profil af et job 1 – Folkene bag kameraet
1988
as Self

Murder in the Dark
1986
Writer
A womanizing journalist is on the outs with the cops who want him in jail and a mysterious "thin man" who wants him dead.

The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever
1984
Original Story
Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government inte...

In the Middle of the Night
1984
Director, Writer
Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on th...

The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry
1982
Screenplay
Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old ...

The Olsen Gang Long Gone
1981
Director, Writer
Criminal genius Egon Olsen presents his accomplices Benny and Keld with yet another infallible plan that can only end badly. The booty is a red suitca...

Beware of the Jönsson Gang
1981
Characters
The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months i...

The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence
1981
Director, Author
As usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang members makes some kind of funny error. This time, howev...

The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
1979
Director, Writer
Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtain...

The Olsen Gang Goes to War
1978
Screenplay, Director
Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hand at some important documents which...

The Olsen Gang and Data-Harry Blows Up The World Bank
1978
Writer
With the help of a corrupt diplomat the Olsen Gang plans to rob the World Bank, with help from the re-schooled Dynamite-Harry, now a computer expert.
Bandefører Balling
1978

The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry On The Trail
1977
Writer
The Olsen Gang is robbed in Spain and loses the millions they earned from their last heist. Egon has a plan to get the money back by robbing the Natio...

The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
1977
Writer, Director
Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strongbox. When he gets out of Vridslose State Prison, K...

The Moelleby affair
1976
Writer
Mølleby is a small, cozy market town. The year is 1924, and the sight of a Rolls Royce from Copenhagen is a sensation. But all is not as idyllic as it...

The Olsen Gang For Full Music
1976
Writer
Egon Olsen is commissioned to help a baron with an insurance fraud. As the dividend can finance Basse's wedding, even Valborg accepts the plans.

The Olsen Gang Sees Red
1976
Director, Screenplay
Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriate...

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

Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde
1976
Director, Writer

The Olsen Gang on the Track
1975
Screenplay, Director
Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. W...

The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
1975
Writer
The Olsen Gang has to pay for their summer vacation in Spain, and Egon is hired to open a safe with black market money in Switzerland. He is conned, b...

The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
1974
Director, Writer
The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to ope...

The Olsen Gang meets The King and the Jackal
1974
Writer
The Olsen Gang becomes millionaires. Unfortunately for the gang, their arch-enemies, the King and the Jack, are planning to steal the money for themse...

The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild
1973
Writer
Egon and the gang is about to commit their biggest heist – stealing 6 millions from an undercover operation at a freight company. The money is stored ...

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1973
Director, Writer
When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are ...

The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
Author, Director
After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a l...

The Olsen Gang Takes the Gold
1972
Writer
Egon returns from prison with the key to a big heist, a hidden Nazi-treasure. The Olsen Gang finds the location of the treasure, but problems arise wh...

The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971
Director, Screenplay
The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large...

Our Home Is Our Castle
1971
Writer, Director
Residents of the old house are quite happy with their existence. But once they find out that the authorities plan to demolish the entire neighborhood ...

One of Those Things
1971
Director, Writer, Producer
A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a man...

Revolution My A..
1970
Director, Writer
A comedy about a Danish private detective, normally just occupied with cases about unfaithful spouses, is suddenly involved in murder, arms deal, revo...

The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry
1970
Writer
A foreign criminal gang makes a large-scale bank coup. The suspicion falls on the Olsen Gang. They escape, take up the hunt for the real criminals and...

The Olsen Gang in a Fix
1969
Director, Screenplay
A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank...

The Olsen Gang
1969
Screenplay
Egon Olsen is the leader of the Olsen Gang. While he was in the slammer, he planned how he would steal the fantastic golden figure Keizeroppzatsen.

The Olsen Gang
1968
Screenplay, Director
The first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gan...

Det var en lørdag aften
1968
Director, Writer
One Saturday evening, Trine prepares dinner for her boyfriend Hans. Unfortunately, Hans is delayed, as on his way between Frihavnen and Valby, he enco...

Martha
1967
Writer, Director
The oldest ship in the fleet, Martha, and her jolly crew, must race Harald and win, or it's the scrappers next.

Jeg er sgu min egen
1967
Director
Being yourself – and above all your own master – that is what the film is about. After a short stay at a girls' home, Annie returns to society and has...

Relax Freddy
1966
Director, Writer
A Chinese diplomat is kidnapped from a conference in Genève and the world peace is at risk. The trail leads to a hiding place in Denmark and the Danis...

Strike First Freddy
1965
Director, Writer
Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service ...

Landmandsliv
1965
Director, Writer
The landowner couple Von Rambow are experiencing significant financial difficulties and are therefore forced to leave their residence and their happy ...

Halløj i himmelsengen
1965
Director
The beginning of the 20th century. The main character is the young, charming Count Pierre de Sauterne. There have been several conflicts between him a...

Summer in Tyrol
1964
Director, Writer
At the Gästhaus "Den Hvide Hest" in the Austrian Alps, romantic entanglements are in full swing. Waiter Leopold is in love with landlady Josepha, who ...

Death Comes at High Noon
1964
Director, Writer
A dark evening, a crime writer Peter Sander, drives through a forest when his car runs out of petrol . A little distance from the road there is a hous...

Hvis lille pige er du?
1963
Director, Writer
The young, hard-working, and extremely attractive Eva Brun works as secretary to Director Jansen. But when her boss becomes a little too fond of Eva's...

The Girl Gogo
1962
Director
Ragnar has left his family farm and works as a taxi driver in Reykjavík in the early sixties. He's drawn to the beautiful but unhappy girl Gogo and ho...

Den kære familie
1962
Director
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...

Cirkus Buster
1961
Director
Most of the ingredients in this filmed circus performance are familiar and simple, but something special has been added—something as simple as ordinar...

Poeten og Lillemor i forårshumør
1961
Director, Writer
The poet is tired of spring and can't write anything. Meanwhile, Lillemor thinks that spring should be used to get a lot done. Soon, a conflict is bre...

Forelsket i København
1960
Producer
Jan Scharf's band is playing at Grönköbing Folk Park. Pianist Jan flirts with a young female audience member. Her friend notices what is going on, so ...

The Poet and Lillemor and Lotte
1960
Director, Writer
The poet and Lillemor have become parents, but poetry and washing the diapers are two subjects which are hard to unite under the same roof. The two ju...

Faith, Hope and Witchcraft
1960
Director, Writer
In the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Troldø lives a single farming family. The grandmother Gunhild is the only woman on the is...

The Poet and the Little Mother
1959
Director, Writer
Poeten and Lillemor are making their living on his writing, but the general interest in modern poetry is low and their income very small. A creditor i...

6-Day Race
1958
Producer, Screenplay
Semi documentary on a famous cycle race in Copenhagen. The story is about the competition between the riders as well as about their private and marita...

Qivitoq
1956
Director
A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiancé, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not wait...

Kispus
1956
Director, Producer, Writer
When a young woman falls in love with a gown in a shop window it leads to adventure and romance exceeding even her own vivid imagination.

På tro og love
1955
Writer, Producer
The young advertising executive Hans and his young wife Grete, who is a dentist, have a considerable annual income between them – and they pay dearly ...

Kongeligt besøg
1954
Director
In the year 1646, Denmark is at peace. Only recently have the last occupying troops left Jutland, leaving behind the sad traces of iron heels. The adm...

Adam and Eve
1953
Director, Writer
It's all about an anonymous little gray book originating from sexually advanced Paris. The book doesn't look like much, but shouldn't be judged by its...

Vi som går køkkenvejen
1953
Director
The beautiful and spoiled manufacturer's daughter Helga defiantly bets with her friends whether she can survive a whole year as a working housekeeper ...

Us Petty Sinners
1952
Director
Venus aux belles fesses, or Venus with the beautiful buttocks, is the name given to a statuette by the famous Swedish sculptor Sergel, and this small ...

For freedom and justice
1949
Assistant Director
A picture of the life of the Danish people from the late 1820s to the introduction of the free constitution in 1849. A fictional character, Rasmus Nie...