Victor Borge
Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000),[1] known professionally as Victor Borge (/ˈbɔːrɡə/ BOR-gə), was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist. He was known for his radio and television works in the United States and Europe.[2]
Borge was known as "The Clown Prince of Denmark".[3] His best known work was in Comedy in Music, which became the longest running one-man show in the history of theatre with 849 performances, a feat which placed it in the Guinness Book of World Records.[4] He was born in Copenhagen.
In 1999, he received the Kennedy Center Honors.
Borge died on 23 December 2000 in his sleep in Greenwich, Connecticut following a concert, aged 91.[5]
Victor Borge Media
Borge performing before an audience in 1957
Victor Borge, Sergio Franchi, Leonid Hambro a Carnegie Hall, 1963
Danish American comedian Victor Borge, photographed outside of Hotel D'Angleterre in Copenhagen, DK, on a grey cloudy day in 1990
The footstone of Victor Borge
References
- ↑ Bjørn Rasmussen. Filmens hvem-vad-hvor (in da) (1969)Politiken. p. 239. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
- ↑ Det Kongelige Teater – Kort fortalt (in da). Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ↑ Jean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo, Neva Editions, 2015, p.296. ISBN 978-2-35055-192-0
- ↑ Young, Mark. The Guinness Book of World Records 1998 (2 March 1998)Bantam Books. p. 439. ISBN 978-0-553-57895-9. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ↑ Comedian Victor Borge dies. 24 December 2000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1085323.stm. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
Other websites
Quotations related to Victor Borge at Wikiquote
- Victor Borge Official website Archived 2019-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Victor Borge on IMDb
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