Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gunnar Sommerfeldt

actor

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1890

Place of Birth: Denmark

Date of Death: 30-Aug-1947

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gunnar Sommerfeldt (4 September 1890 – 30 August 1947) was a Danish actor and film maker. In 1919 he directed Saga Borgarættarinnar, the first feature film shot in Iceland.
Sommerfeldt also wrote the script, based on Gunnar Gunnarsson's novel by that name.
He made his last feature film in 1921, an adaption of Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil which received the Nobel prize in Literature the year before.