Biography
Peter Steen blev født i Randers i 1936. Han blev student i 1954 og studerede medicin et par år. I 1960 blev han optaget på Det kongelige Teaters elevskole, og i 1963 blev han ansat på teatret. I 1974 blev han freelance og spillede en lang række roller bl.a. på Rialto Teatret, Folketeatret og Odense Teater. Siden slutningen af 1970'erne har han været iscenesætter af en række teaterstykker. Han har været gift fire gange, bl.a. med væversken Kim Naver og skuespilleren Lisbet Lundquist. Hans erindr...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Young Andersen
2005
as Gamle H.C. Andersen
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Ander...

My Sister's Kids In Egypt
2004
as Hans
Five young siblings deal with a reluctant chaperone when they wind up stranded on a trip to Egypt.

Reconstruction
2003
as Mel David
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for...

The Inheritance
2003
as Niels
A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Chri...

Gone with the Fish
1999
as Jannick
Based on director Lotte Svendsen's own memories of her childhood on the Baltic island of Bornholm, but though it is set in 1981 the conflicts portraye...

Bella, min Bella
1996
as Henrik
Bella's father died tragically, and now the teenage girl lives in close proximity to her mother, Maj. They protect each other from the outside world, ...

300 Miles to Heaven
1989
as Urzędnik w obozie
Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden...

Otto Is a Rhino
1983
as Brandmester
The boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and right away, you have a real rhino for a companion. A ...

Den ubetænksomme elsker
1982
as Adrian Lorck
Psychological drama about a doctor who, after taking over a practice in a small community, becomes entangled in some of the local intrigues. This has ...

The Parallel Corpses
1982
as Kriminalassistent
About a businessman who murders his stepdaughter after having an affair with her. A crematorium worker who secretly sells coffins to an undertaker dis...

Danmark er lukket
1980
In the future, Denmark has been made a nuclear waste dump and the Danish language is banned.
Den sidste hjælp
1980
as Lars Tinglev

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

Mirror, Mirror
1978
Heavily influenced by the French stage sensation La Cage Aux Folles (which was filmed the very same year) a drag-queen comedy about a group of homosex...

The Marksman
1977
as Niels Winther
A man decides to perpetrate a series of killings and publicise them as political acts in an attempt to protest against nuclear armaments.

Sofies skolegang
1977
as Pastor
TV drama about Christen Kold and his ideas for independent schools, by Bent Grasten and Kirsten Stenbæk. The story is set in the village of Roemark in...

Going for Broke
1977
as Betjenten
Three out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station.

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 ...

The Gangster's Apprentice
1976
as Vincent
Crime film about a Copenhagen social worker who, out of boredom, seeks away from his environment and into the criminal underworld, which he soon becom...

En ægtemand
1976
Writer
He has recently divorced and found a new love. But when his ex-wife also finds a new lover, who is cold and harsh toward their two small children, it ...

That Brief Summer
1976
Kirsten gets divorced in her early 40s and moves with her son to her parents' home in Hjørring. Here she falls in love with a German officer, without ...

Bertram og Lisa
1975
as Bertram
Bertram is very happy with his life, but is encouraged to seek new challenges. Bertram is tasked with getting Merland to sign a contract with the muni...

The Misanthrope
1974
as Clitandre
Bergman took one of his favourite plays to Copenhagen for a guest performance, which was even broadcast on Danish TV. In his Copenhagen The Misanthrop...

The First Circle
1973
The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Præsten i Vejlby
1972
In the early 17th century, the tyrannical parish priest in Vejlby, Søren Jensen Quist, tries to force his daughter Maren into a lucrative marriage wit...

Lenin, You Rascal, You
1972
as Lenin
A comedy based on partially authentic events. The year is 1917, World War I is raging and dividing Germany between west and east. The Russian tsar is ...

The Olsen Gang in Jutland
1971
as Leutnant
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...

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

The Mad Dane
1969
An adventurous Danish sailor falls in love with the beautiful French singer Christine in this romantic adventure. Chased by soldiers, he takes cover u...

The Olsen Gang in a Fix
1969
as Mortensen
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...

Think of a Number
1969
as Bankassistent
The story opens just before Christmas, when solitary, apathetic bank clerk Flemming Borck uncovers a plot to rob his bank. After doing a little rooki...

The Olsen Gang
1968
as Mortensen
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
One Saturday evening, Trine prepares dinner for her boyfriend Hans. Unfortunately, Hans is delayed, as on his way between Frihavnen and Valby, he enco...

I den grønne skov
1968
"Modern vaudeville," where the entire story takes place at Dyrehavsbakken. In an impressionistic style, it tells the story of the waiter Mowitz, who p...

Jeg er sgu min egen
1967
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...

The Girl and the Viscount
1966
as Grev Ditmar Gyldenstjerne
Susanne is going to the countryside to visit Ditmar. Ditmar has been abroad for over a year, and in the meantime, Susanne has given birth to Lulu with...

Der var engang
1966
as Prinsen af Danmark
The princess of Illyria, who has rejected all the fine suitors who have proposed to her, begins to take an interest in a gypsy who wanders around near...

Neighbors
1966
as Ludvig
Taking place on a small villa road: The two neighbors Gormsen and Sandelund have been at a dispute for years and this evolves into an all out war. San...

Et fjernsynsmareridt
1964
as Manden
Danish TV theater from 1964. Ernst Bruun Olsen's absurd farce about a married couple whose perception of reality and dreams are influenced by the stre...

To
1964
In this romantic drama, Niels (Jens Osterholm) is a petty thief and irresponsible lout who meets Lone (Yvonne Ingdal), a hospital lab assistant who is...

Mord for åbent tæppe
1964
as Jørgen Bang
The action takes place in a theater, where actor and theater director Poul Bech is shot by his co-star Eva Berthelsen in the middle of a premiere. The...

Når enden er go'
1964
Claudius is a journalist who loses his job and is in love with Dorte. Her father refuses to give his consent until Claudius finds a suitable job with ...