Vaudevillian and Comedian
Used to be a circus impresario.
Opened Copenhagens first cinema, The Biograph Theatre, on April 23rd 1905.
Founder of Nordisk Film (est. Denmark 1906). The companys US distribution arm was called the Great Northern Film Co.
Late in 1963, Olsens body was shipped from Kansas, where it had been initially interred, to be buried alongside Chic Johnson at Palm Downtown Mortuary and Cemetery in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Brother of actor Steve Olsen.
Father-in-law of William Lear, who invented the 8-track tape and the Lear Jet.
Vaudevillian, graduate of Northwestern University.
He had 4 children with his first wife, Lillian: son, J.C. Olsen ; and daughters, Joy Pendergraft , Moya Lear , and Martha Jane, who died in infancy.
In 1950 Ole was involved in a serious traffic accident that left him partially paralyzed.
With Chic Johnson , Ole was half of that lunatic comedy team from vaudeville, Olsen & Johnson. The pair made several films, among which the most successful (and most representatively loony) was Hellzapoppin .
Son of Ole Olsen
