Victor Borge Net Worth
Victor Borge Net Worth is
$800,000
Victor Borge Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Victor Borge (b. January 3, 1909, Copenhagen, Denmark d. December 23, 2000, Greenwich, Connecticut) was a humorist, entertainer and world-class pianist affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane.He was a popular artist in his native Denmark until... | Full Name | Victor Borge |
| Date Of Birth | January 3, 1909, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | December 23, 2000, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Copenhagen |
| Profession | Comedian, Pianist, Conductor, Actor |
| Education | Royal Danish Academy of Music |
| Nationality | Denmark |
| Spouse | Sarabel Sanna Scraper (m. 1953–2000), Elsie Chilton (m. 1933–1953) |
| Children | Ronald Borge, Frederikke Borge, Sanna Feinstein, Vebe Borge, Janet Crowle |
| Parents | Bernhard Rosenbaum, Frederikke Rosenbaum |
| Nicknames | Børge Rosenbaum , The Clown Prince of Denmark , The Great Dane |
| Awards | Kennedy Center Honors |
| Nominations | Primetime Emmy Award for Best Specialty Act - Single Or Group |
| Movies | Higher and Higher, The Daydreamer, De tre måske fire, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Victor Borge's Funniest Moments, Victor Borge: Birthday Gala at Wolf Trap, Victor Borge: Then & Now, Victor Borge Tells Hans Christian Andersen Stories |
| TV Shows | The Victor Borge Show, The Complete Victor Borge |
| Star Sign | Capricorn |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. |
| 2 | And I wish to remind you that the smile is the shortest distance between people, and the more we smile, the less we fight. Because to my knowledge, no one ever fought smilingly...and won. So not goodbye, then. Never goodbye. Just...so long. |
| 3 | A woman complimenting me on my act one night told me she hadn't laughed so much since her husband died. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Became a U.S. citizen after his move there, but remained popular in his native Denmark and often performed there. |
| 2 | His Comedy in Music one-man show on Broadway reached 849 performances, the longest solo run in Broadway history. |
| 3 | His son, Ron Borge, appeared many times on stage with his father as the timid page turner. |
| 4 | Borge, almost single-handedly, developed the Rock Cornish game hen industry in America. He owned a very large farm where he raised Rock Cornish hens. |
| 5 | Attended Øster Borgerdyd High School in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| 6 | Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald S. Smith, pg. 57-58. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 |
| 7 | He was the voiceover artist for the Heineken beer adverts in the UK during the 1970s. 'Heineken does this because it refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach.' |
| 8 | He hosted the first US telecast of the Danny Kaye film, Hans Christian Andersen (1952). |
| 9 | In 1953, he starred in the one-man Broadway production "Comedy in Music", with which he toured off and on until his retirement. This was a show in which Borge often announced he was going to play a piece, but seldom actually got around to doing it because of his hilarious comments to the audience. The show went through several editions over the years, but always retained some of the same comic remarks. |
| 10 | Father of Frederikke Borge, Ronald Borge, Vebe Borge, Sanna Feinstein and Janet Crowle. |
| 11 | He is the founder of the Thanks to Scandinavia Foundation. |
| 12 | One of his famous skits involves "phonetic punctuation", in which he accents commas, question marks and periods with sound effects. |
| 13 | Borge publicly derided Adolf Hitler in his native Denmark just before World War II. When the Germans invaded that country, he managed to escape to America because, since he was married to an American women, he got an American visa. |
| 14 | Recipient of 22nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime contribution to arts and culture, presented by President Bill Clinton in Washington, DC, Dec. 5, 1999. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The King of Comedy | 1982 | Victor Borge | |
| Consumer Survival Kit | 1975 | TV Series | |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 1967 | TV Series | Mr. Willoughby |
| The Daydreamer | 1966 | Zenith (The Second Tailor) (voice) | |
| Mr. Belvedere | 1965 | TV Movie | Lynn Belvedere |
| The James Melton Show | 1951 | TV Series | |
| The Story of Dr. Wassell | 1944 | Man (uncredited) | |
| Higher and Higher | 1943 | Sir Victor Fitzroy Victor | |
| De tre måske fire | 1939 | Kontorist - Bøjesen (as Børge Rosenbaum) | |
| Alarm | 1938 | Tjener Cæsar (as Børge Rosenbaum) | |
| Der var engang en Vicevært | 1937 | Komponist Bøegh | |
| Frk. Møllers jubilæum | 1937 | Klaverstemmer Asmussen |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Victor Borge Show | 1963 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Victor Borge: Comedy in Music | 1956 | TV Mini-Series writer - 2 episodes |
Composer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| De tre måske fire | 1939 | as Børge Rosenbaum |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higher and Higher | 1943 | performer: "The Music Stopped" 1943, "You're On Your Own" 1943, "Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op.67" 1809, "Symphony No.6 in B Minor Pathétique, Op.74" 1893 |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Borge's Funniest Moments | 2002 | Video | Himself |
| The Legendary Victor Borge | 2000 | Video | Himself |
| Dronning Ingrid - i følge Victor Borge | 2000 | TV Special documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1999 | TV Special | Himself - Honoree |
| Borge for alvor | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Royal Variety Performance | 1996 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1995 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| CBS This Morning | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
| Comic Relief VI | 1994 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Guest Night | 1993 | TV Series | |
| Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Carnegie Hall at 100: A Place of Dreams | 1991 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Best of Victor Borge: Act One & Two | 1990 | Video | Himself |
| The Geraldo Rivera Show | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
| Wolf Trap Presents Victor Borge: An 80th Birthday Celebration | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| A Yabba-Dabba-Doo Celebration!: 50 Years of Hanna-Barbera | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Pat Sajak Show | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| Live from Her Majesty's | 1987 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sesame Street | 1978-1986 | TV Series | Himself |
| All-Star Salute to Ford's Theater | 1986 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Funniest Joke I Ever Heard | 1984 | TV Movie | Himself |
| On Stage America | 1984 | TV Series | Himself |
| Koncert med Victor Borge | 1984 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Conductor / Performer |
| Salute! | 1983 | TV Series | Himself |
| Her er dit liv | 1983 | TV Series | Himself - Entertainer |
| Tom Cottle: Up Close | 1982 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 36th Annual Tony Awards | 1982 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter: Best Actress in a Musical |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1981 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Gala of Stars 1981 | 1981 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Big Show | 1980 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Ingrid Bergman: An All-Star Salute | 1979 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Muppet Show | 1979 | TV Series | Himself - Special Guest Star |
| Live Wednesday | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
| Lørdagshjørnet | 1978 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1971-1978 | TV Series | Himself - Co-Host / Himself - Pianist / Himself - Comic Pianist / ... |
| The Hollywood Squares | 1977-1978 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| Good Morning America | 1978 | TV Series | Himself |
| The People's Command Performance | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| Carpenters Very First Television Special | 1976 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1963-1976 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself - Guest Host / Himself |
| Dinah! | 1975-1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Celebrity Sweepstakes | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| BBC Show of the Week | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Complete Victor Borge | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Electric Company | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| Parkinson | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Frost Show | 1970-1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| Tyve femten | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| En aften med Victor Borge | 1971 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Conductor / Performer |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1962-1970 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest |
| This Is Tom Jones | 1970 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Dean Martin Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sandler and Young's Kraft Music Hall | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Andy Williams Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Allen Ludden's Gallery | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Della | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1967-1969 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Host / Himself |
| The Jackie Gleason Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Hollywood Palace | 1964-1969 | TV Series | Himself - Host / Himself - Comic Pianist / Himself - Singer |
| The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Stig Lommer fortæller | 1969 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The World of Christmas | 1968 | TV Movie | Himself - Host |
| The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show | 1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| Laugh-In | 1968 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Performer |
| The Kraft Music Hall | 1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| Gala de l'Unicef | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Match Game | 1967 | TV Series | Himself - Team Captain |
| I've Got a Secret | 1960-1966 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself - Celebrity Guest / Himself / ... |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1949-1965 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Pianist / Himself - Guest Host / ... |
| The Bell Telephone Hour | 1965 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Juke Box Jury | 1965 | TV Series | Himself - Panellist |
| The 19th Annual Tony Awards | 1965 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| What's My Line? | 1952-1965 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist / Himself - Mystery Guest / Himself - Mystery Guest #1 |
| The Jack Paar Program | 1962-1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1949-1964 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
| The Victor Borge Show | 1951-1963 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1959-1960 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Many Sides of Mickey Rooney | 1960 | TV Special | Himself - Sketch Actor |
| Small World | 1959 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Heart of Show Business | 1957 | Short | Himself |
| Victor Borge: Comedy in Music | 1956 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 | 1955 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Person to Person | 1954 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Christmas with the Stars | 1953 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | 1953 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Frank Sinatra Show | 1952 | TV Series | Himself - Pianist |
| TV Club | 1950-1951 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Fred Waring Show | 1951 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Kate Smith Evening Hour | 1951 | TV Series | Himself |
| All Star Revue | 1951 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| Cavalcade of Stars | 1949-1950 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Comic Pianist / Himself |
| The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter | 1950 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue | 1949 | TV Series | Himself |
| I folkets navn | 1938 | Documentary as Børge Rosenbaum |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Borge Around Australia | 2009 | Video | Himself |
| Verdens morsomste mand | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Victor Borge: 100 Years of Music & Laughter! | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself |
| DR2 tema: Arven fra DINS | 2007 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| The Best of the Royal Variety | 2006 | TV Series | |
| Ed Sullivan All-Star Comedy Special | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Legends of Comedy | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Harry Måneskin | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
| TV-Avisen | 1987 | TV Series | Himself |
| Best of the Dean Martin Show | 1979 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Hollywood Palace | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Best Specialty Act - Single or Group |
Known for movies
Wolf Trap Presents Victor Borge: An 80th Birthday Celebration (1990)
as Himself
A Yabba-Dabba-Doo Celebration!: 50 Years of Hanna-Barbera (1989)
as Himself
Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år (1993)
as Himself - Narrator
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963-1976)
as Himself - Guest / Himself - Guest Host / Himself
