He was immediately hired away by Nordisk Film to perform in August Blom's Ved Fængslets Port (At the Prison Gates).

[2] Psilander's charismatic performance earned him great praise and he quickly became Nordisk's highest-paid actor.

[2] Within two years, he was named the most popular male actor in film magazine readership polls around the world.

[2] (By comparison, the next highest paid star of the era, Olaf Fønss, received 14,000 DKK).

[3] In a rare newspaper interview from 1913, he spoke about his acting method: "We so often see fine stage actors become nothing on film because they don't understand that it depends upon concentration.

[1] On 6 March 1917, Psilander was found dead at age 32 in his suite at the Hotel Bristol in Copenhagen.