- Nacimiento
- Defunción14 de abril de 1934 · Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos (su suicidio por disparo)
- Nombre de nacimientoRasmus Carl Therkelsen Gottlieb
- Alias
- The Great Dane
- Altura1.92 m
- Karl Dane nació el 12 de octubre de 1886 en Copenhague, Dinamarca. Fue un actor, conocido por The Big Parade (1925), La Bohème (1926) y All at Sea (1929). Estuvo casado con Emma Awilda Peabody Sawyer, Helen Benson y Carla Dagmar Hagen. Murió el 14 de abril de 1934 en Los Ángeles, California, EE.UU..
- CónyugesEmma Awilda Peabody Sawyer(marzo de 1924 - septiembre de 1924) (divorciado)Helen Benson(15 de junio de 1921 - 9 de agosto de 1923) (su muerte, 1 niño)Carla Dagmar Hagen(10 de septiembre de 1910 - 1919) (divorciado, 2 niños)
- Following his suicide with a gun in 1934, fellow Danish actor and MGM star Jean Hersholt, concerned that Dane would be placed in a pauper's grave, insisted that MGM step in and give him a proper burial. They did and he is interred in Hollywood Memorial cemetery. Hersholt and actor/former "Big Parade" co-star Tom O'Brien served as pallbearers.
- A noted animal lover, he rescued two dogs following the making of his movie The Trail of '98 (1928).
- Became a star in King Vidor's classic The Big Parade (1925) as the tobacco-chewing riveter Slim. The popularity extended to Denmark, where his long-estranged brother and children from his first marriage saw it. They reconnected and he enjoyed a reunion with them.
- Karl was also an auto racer and an aviator, being one of the first Danish aviators with the Danish Flying Corps.
- The son of a Danish glove maker, he had an older brother (by a year), Reinald Marius Gottlieb. His parents divorced in 1903. He and his brother apprenticed as machinists for a railroad equipment company during their teens.
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