Anecdotes

After several years of employment at the theatre, he established himself as a freelance actor.

Lars Lunøe was the son of a district court prosecutor and considered studying law before choosing the theater path.

Lars Lunøe has been since the 1960s one of the biggest villains in Danish film.

"The villainous and demonic lies before him. There is a strange mixture of cynicism and melancholy in the sunken gaze, his cultured diction often has an undertone of the satanic or sardonic, and his body can appear both menacing and strangely old man-like, even in his early roles. A handsome man with a powerful radiance of something slightly decadent", wrote film reviewer Morten Piil about Lunøe in 'Danish Filmskuespillere' from 2003.

He graduated from Aarhus Theater's student school in 1960.

During his five-decade-long career, he played a multitude of roles, but will probably be best remembered as one of Danish cinema's greatest villains.

He was most recently seen - handsomely aged - as a leading policeman in Helsingør in episodes 15 and 16 of the TV series "Rejseholdet" (2000-01).

In addition to his contribution to Danish film, Lars Lunøe has starred in a number of classic theater plays to great acclaim. On the slanted boards, he has, among other things, helped to interpret Shakespeare, Ibsen and Holberg.

Over the decades, Lunøe has also frequently appeared in the major Danish TV series, including 'Riget', 'Strisser på Samsø', 'Nikolaj og Julie', 'Edderkoppen' and 'Gøngehövdingen'.

From the 1970s he mainly plays small roles, apart from the Tom Kristensen film "Hærværk" (1977), where he is effective but also somewhat superficial as the self-righteous and unreliable revolutionary Sanders. And in the colonial drama "Peter von Scholten" (1987) he is a clichéd villain of a plantation owner who treats his slaves very badly.