Jean Hersholt
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DOB
12 July 1886, Copenhagen, Denmark
12 July 1886, Copenhagen, Denmark
DOD
2 June 1956, Hollywood, California, USA (cancer)
2 June 1956, Hollywood, California, USA (cancer)
Height
5' 11"
5' 11"
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Filmography
Actor:
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Trivia
- Uncle of actor Leslie Nielsen
- Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, just outside the Great Mausoleum.
- Translated over 160 of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales into English. These were published in 1949 in six volumes as "The Complete Andersen". Hersholt was knighted by King Christian X of Denmark in 1948 partly due to this endeavor. Hersholt's grave in Forest Lawn Memorial Park is marked with a statue of Klods Hans, a Hans Christian Anderson character who left Denmark to find his way in the the world - much as Hersholt himself did.
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