Birte Tove
Tove in 1969
Born
Birte Tove Sørensen

(1945-01-16)16 January 1945
Helsingør, Denmark
Died6 February 2016(2016-02-06) (aged 71)
Resting placeSøllerød Cemetery
SpouseOle Schächter (divorced)
Children2

Birte Tove (née Birte Tove Sørensen; 1945–2016), was a Danish actress and nude model.[1] She is best known for her work in the 1970s Bedside-films (Danish: Sengekantsfilm), an erotic film series produced by A/S Palladium. Her films were popular internationally,[2] and in Hong Kong she was nicknamed, "the Danish Elizabeth Taylor".[2][3]

Alongside her modeling and acting career, Tove trained as a nurse, and she worked for several years in home care.[1]

Biography

Birte Tove was born on 16 January 1945 in Helsingør, Denmark.[4] She had been married Ole Brix Schächter from October 1970 until 1995, which ended in divorce.[5] Tove was the mother of 2 children, including actors Anne Katrine Tove Brix and Adam Brix Schächter [da].[1][5]

In 1967, she first appeared as a model in Ekstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid newspaper.[1] In 1969, Tove had her first acting role in the American–Danish film Swedish Fly Girls (1971; Danish: Christa), where she played a free-spirited flight attendant looking for love.[4] Throughout the 1970s, she starred in many Bedside-films, often alongside actor Ole Søltoft.[4] She lived in Hong Kong from 1972 until 1975, where she worked with the Shaw Brothers Studio and filmed Sexy Girls of Denmark (1973), Bamboo House of Dolls (1973), and The Mini Skirt Gang (1975).[4][3]

Tove died on 6 February 2016 from multiple sclerosis.[5]

Filmography

Film

Film
Date Title Role Production Notes
1970 Bedroom Mazurka Line, youngest daughter A/S Palladium
1971 Swedish Fly Girls Christa American International Pictures [4][6][7][8]
1971 With Love (Danish: Med kærlig hilsen) Eve
1971 Bedside Dentist (Danish: Tandlæge på sengekanten) Nina A/S Palladium [9][10]
1972 Z.P.G. Nurse Sagittarius Productions as Birthe Tove
1972 Bedside Highway (Danish: Motorvej på sengekanten) Line, apprentice A/S Palladium [4]
1973 Between the Sheets (Danish: Romantik på sengekanten) Bine Hansen A/S Palladium
1973 Sexy Girls of Denmark Shaw Brothers Studio [11]
1973 Bamboo House of Dolls (pinyin: Nu ji zhong ying) Jennifer Shaw Brothers Studio [4][3][12]
1975 The Mini Skirt Gang Shaw Brothers Studio [3]
1975 Girls at Arms Marianne Valdorff [3]

Television

Television
Date Title Role Directors Notes
1994 The Kingdom (miniseries) Nurse Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred [13]
1997 The Kingdom II, Exodus [13]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Hartung, Berit (2016-02-07). "Folkekær skuespillerinde død: 'Vi holdt mor i hånden da hun tog af sted'". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Berlingske Media A/S. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  2. ^ a b "Birte Tove er død". TV 2 DK (in Danish). 2016-02-07. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  3. ^ a b c d e Stevenson, Jack (2015-09-02). Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s. McFarland. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-1-4766-1259-1.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Birte Tove". Dansk Film Database. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  5. ^ a b c Lautrup, John (2016-02-08). "Birte Tove er død". Billed-Bladet (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  6. ^ Thompson, Howard (21 August 1971). "Movie Review: Christa (1971)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014.
  7. ^ Laycock, John (1972-04-17). "Sexy Stewardess Crashes". The Windsor Star. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  8. ^ "Birte Tove". Philadelphia Daily News. 1971-12-18. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  9. ^ Larsen, Darl (2015-03-06). A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: All the References from African Swallows to Zoot. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4422-4554-9.
  10. ^ "Sex with Soltoft". Kensington News and Post. 1972-11-03. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  11. ^ Berry, Michael; Sawada, Chiho (2017-12-31). Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia. University of Hawaii Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-8248-7510-7.
  12. ^ Weldon, Michael (1996). The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film. Macmillan. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-312-13149-4.
  13. ^ a b Lumholdt, Jan; Trier, Lars von (2003). Lars Von Trier: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 38–40. ISBN 978-1-57806-532-5.

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