Harald Kolling

A carte-de-visite portrait of the Danish actor Harald Kolling (1835-1904).

He is seen here as he appeared in Afgrunden [English: The Pit], a Danish adaptation of No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, which had been a huge success with audiences in both London and Paris in 1867.

A noted comic actor in his native Denmark, Kolling was extremely popular with middle-class audiences in Copenhagen. During his long career, he played over 450 different characters. His last performance was on 14 September 1901; he died three years later in 1904. He was his country's first thespian to receive the Knight's Cross.

Photographed by Peter Most of Copenhagen.