Just Betzer


Producer

About

Birth Place
Denmark
Born
June 11, 1944

Biography

Former president of the prolific Danish production company, Panorama Film, who formed the London-based Panorama Film International in 1985 and set up Just Betzer Films in Los Angeles in 1990. Best known for the Oscar-winning "Babette's Feast" (1987)....

Biography

Former president of the prolific Danish production company, Panorama Film, who formed the London-based Panorama Film International in 1985 and set up Just Betzer Films in Los Angeles in 1990. Best known for the Oscar-winning "Babette's Feast" (1987).

Life Events

1960

Founded Panorama Film production/distribution (date approximate) company in Denmark; (responsible for over 30 features)

1985

Moved to England; set up London-based Panorama Film International with offices in Copenhagen and Los Angeles

1990

Formed Los Angeles-based production company, Just Betzer Films in October

Family

Edvard Betzer
Father
Exhibitor. Began as a still photographer; started a traveling cinema show in Jutland, Denmark (1942); built the first multiscreen complex in Aarhus province; managed five of his son's theaters in the Jutland and Fyn provinces; died of a heart attack on January 17, 1993.
Mogens Betzer
Brother
Exhibitor.

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