Birte Tove

{{Infobox person

| name = Birte Tove

| image = File:1969 Tove Birte.jpg

| caption = Tove in 1969

| birth_name = Birte Tove Sørensen

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|01|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Helsingør, Denmark

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|02|06|1945|01|16|df=y}}

| resting_place = Søllerød Cemetery

| spouse = Ole Schächter (divorced)

| children = 2

}}

Birte Tove (née Birte Tove Sørensen; 1945–2016), was a Danish actress and nude model.{{Cite web |last=Hartung |first=Berit |date=2016-02-07 |title=Folkekær skuespillerinde død: 'Vi holdt mor i hånden da hun tog af sted' |url=https://www.bt.dk/content/item/33 |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=www.bt.dk |language=da|publisher= Berlingske Media A/S}} She is best known for her work in the 1970s Bedside-films ({{Langx|da|Sengekantsfilm}}), an erotic film series produced by A/S Palladium. Her films were popular internationally,{{Cite web |date=2016-02-07 |title=Birte Tove er død |url=https://underholdning.tv2.dk/kendte/2016-02-07-birte-tove-er-doed |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=TV 2 DK |language=da-DK}} and in Hong Kong she was nicknamed, "the Danish Elizabeth Taylor".{{Cite book |last=Stevenson |first=Jack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0RWBCgAAQBAJ |title=Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s |date=2015-09-02 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1259-1 |pages=197–198 |language=en}}

Alongside her modeling and acting career, Tove trained as a nurse, and she worked for several years in home care.

Biography

Birte Tove was born on 16 January 1945 in Helsingør, Denmark.{{Cite web |title=Birte Tove |url=https://danskefilm.dk/skuespiller.php?id=133 |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Dansk Film Database}} She had been married Ole Brix Schächter from October 1970 until 1995, which ended in divorce.{{Cite web |last=Lautrup |first=John |date=2016-02-08 |title=Birte Tove er død |url=https://www.billedbladet.dk/kendte/danmark/film/birte-tove-er-doed |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Billed-Bladet |language=da}} Tove was the mother of 2 children, including actors Anne Katrine Tove Brix and {{III|Adam Brix Schächter|da}}.

In 1967, she first appeared as a model in Ekstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid newspaper. In 1969, Tove had her first acting role in the American–Danish film Swedish Fly Girls (1971; {{Langx|da|Christa}}), where she played a free-spirited flight attendant looking for love. Throughout the 1970s, she starred in many Bedside-films, often alongside actor Ole Søltoft. She lived in Hong Kong from 1972 until 1975, where she worked with the Shaw Brothers Studio and filmed Sexy Girls of Denmark (1973), Bamboo House of Dolls (1973), and The Mini Skirt Gang (1975).

Tove died on 6 February 2016 from multiple sclerosis.

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable"

|+Film

!Date

!Title

!Role

!Production

!Notes

1970

|Bedroom Mazurka

|Line, youngest daughter

|A/S Palladium

1971

|Swedish Fly Girls

|Christa

|American International Pictures

|{{cite news |author=Thompson |first=Howard |date=21 August 1971 |title=Movie Review: Christa (1971) |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D07E1D71238EF34BC4951DFBE66838A669EDE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530014845/https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D07E1D71238EF34BC4951DFBE66838A669EDE |archive-date=30 May 2014}}{{Cite news |last=Laycock |first=John |date=1972-04-17 |title=Sexy Stewardess Crashes |pages=28 |work=The Windsor Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50793295/christathewindsorstarontario170472/ |access-date=2023-01-06}}{{Cite news |date=1971-12-18 |title=Birte Tove |pages=11 |work=Philadelphia Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115888446/birte-tove/ |access-date=2023-01-06}}

1971

|With Love ({{Langx|da|Med kærlig hilsen}})

|Eve

1971

|Bedside Dentist ({{Langx|da|Tandlæge på sengekanten}})

|Nina

|A/S Palladium

|{{Cite book |last=Larsen |first=Darl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DX0xBwAAQBAJ |title=A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: All the References from African Swallows to Zoot |date=2015-03-06 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-4554-9 |pages=15 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1972-11-03 |title=Sex with Soltoft |pages=28 |work=Kensington News and Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115888384/sex-with-soltoft/ |access-date=2023-01-06}}

1972

|Z.P.G.

|Nurse

|Sagittarius Productions

|as Birthe Tove

1972

|Bedside Highway ({{Langx|da|Motorvej på sengekanten}})

|Line, apprentice

|A/S Palladium

1973

|Between the Sheets ({{Langx|da|Romantik på sengekanten}})

|Bine Hansen

|A/S Palladium

1973

|Sexy Girls of Denmark

|Shaw Brothers Studio

|{{Cite book |last1=Berry |first1=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EiDHDwAAQBAJ |title=Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia |last2=Sawada |first2=Chiho |date=2017-12-31 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-7510-7 |pages=158 |language=en}}

1973

|Bamboo House of Dolls ({{Lang-zh|p=Nu ji zhong ying}})

|Jennifer

|Shaw Brothers Studio

|{{Cite book |last=Weldon |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nhjsnWfFoiAC |title=The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film |date=1996 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-312-13149-4 |pages=38 |language=en}}

1975

|The Mini Skirt Gang

|Shaw Brothers Studio

1975

|Girls at Arms

|Marianne Valdorff

= Television =

class="wikitable"

|+Television

!Date

!Title

!Role

!Directors

!Notes

1994

|The Kingdom (miniseries)

| rowspan="2" |Nurse

| rowspan="2" |Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred

|{{Cite book |last1=Lumholdt |first1=Jan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voTOt3GaRJAC |title=Lars Von Trier: Interviews |last2=Trier |first2=Lars von |date=2003 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-532-5 |pages=38–40 |language=en}}

1997

|The Kingdom II, Exodus