Ole & Axel

Ole & Axel[2][3] (American) or Long & Short[2][3] (British) were a pair of comics from Denmark, known in Danish as Fyrtårnet og Bivognen (Lighthouse and Sidecar), often called Fy og Bi for short.

Their heyday was in the 1920s, when Ole & Axel were Danish cinematography's major export product and the world's first internationally renowned film comedy pair.

Ole & Axel were known as Telegrafstolpen og Tilhengeren in Norway, Fyrtornet och Släpvagnen in Sweden, Majakka ja Perävaunu (The Lighthouse and the Trailer) in Finland, Doublepatte et Patachon in France,[1] Watt en Halfwatt in the Netherlands, and Long & Short in England.

These versions were again cut into serials (with 59 episodes) by Federal German television ZDF from 1968 to 1970.

This version kept Pat und Patachon well known in Germany due to numerous reruns.

Ole & Axel on the front page of the Swedish weekly magazine Se in 1947. The roles here were played by Harald Madsen and Calle Reinholdz (who succeeded Carl Schenstrøm). [ 1 ]
Clip of Ole & Axel and their Danish traveling companions during a visit to Amsterdam in 1924