1982Winner
Best Performance
The King of Comedy
Victor Borge
Actor
København
January 3, 1909
Biography
Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish- American comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as "The Clown Prince of Denmark", "The Unmelancholy Dane", and "The Great Dane". He was born in Copenhagen and started out as a classic concert pianist, having his first major concert in 1926. In 1933 he started his now famous "stand up" act, with the signature blend of piano music and jokes, and married American Elsie Chilton the same year. Borge started touring extensively in Europe, where he began telling anti-Nazi jokes. When Germany invaded Denmark on 9 April 1940, he was touring Sweden, and fled via finland to the USA with his American wife. Once in the USA, he took the name Victor Borge, and quickly managed to adapt his jokes to the American audience, learning English by watching movies. In 1941 he was hired by Bing Crosby for his Kraft Music Hall, and from then on, his fame just grew and grew.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1996Nominee
Best Performance
Victor Borge Nytårs-show
1979Nominee
Best Performance
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Career Highlights
1976Highlight
Best Performance
Carpenters Very First Television Special
1989Highlight
Best Performance
Hanna-Barbera's 50th
Video
The King of Comedy
Carpenters Very First Television Special
Higher and Higher