Carlo Wieth

Carlo Rossini Wieth (born Carl Andersen; 11 December 1885 – 30 June 1943)[1] was a Danish stage and film actor whose career began at the turn of the 20th-century and lasted until his death in 1943.

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[5] Between 1912 and 1914, he appeared in approximately nine Swedish silent films for such directors as John Ekman, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström before returning to Denmark and appearing in such films as Gunnar Sommerfeldt's 1918 drama En Lykkeper in 1918 and in Carl Theodor Dreyer's popular 1921 silent drama Leaves from Satan's Book, which tells the tale of Satan's banishment from heaven.

He wouldn't return to the screen until appearing in his first talkie; Pál Fejös's 1935 Det gyldne smil (The Golden Smile) opposite Bodil Ipsen.

On 30 June 1943, Wieth was on a bicycle excursion in the Gribskov forest in the Hovedstaden region on Zealand when he collapsed from a fatal heart attack, aged 57.