Kjeld Nørgaard



Kjeld Nørgaard (b. October 10, 1938) voiced Ebenezer Scrooge and others in Muppets Juleeventyr, the danish dub of The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Originally a teacher but got acceptet into the Danish royal theaters acting school in 1963, and graduated in 1966. He got his first movie role in the 1966 movie Der var engang. Most of his movie roles have been very small parts, however in the 1984 movie Drengen der forsvandt where he played a cheating, drunk family dad who's son ran away from home. What he did not do in the movies he did on television. he have had many memorable roles on television some of those include Niles Nelsen in Bryggeren, Bent Falck in Taxa and many more. From 1971-1976 Kjeld Nørgaard was one of two pupeteers on DR's children show Legestue. The show had been on air since 1969 in different formats. This time it would star a blue parrot named Andrea, performed by Hanne Willumsen, who also crated the puppets, and the frog Kaj, performed by Kjeld Nørgaard. Besides the two puppets there was a human host named Poul, played by the now deceased singer Poul Kjøller. Besides performing Kaj, Kjeld Nørgaard would appear in live segments as Pouls dumb witted sidekick, Kjeld. He was also one of the shows writers. The show was a hit, but unfortunately not many episodes exist of the show today, at the time it was not uncommon for for DR to recycle the tapes, so many of the episodes have been recorded over. The few episodes that was left have been in re-run many times since. In 1999 it was decided to recreate the show, it was now named Kaj og Andrea. Kjeld Nørgaard would return to perform Kaj, and as a co-writer. Hanne Willumsen would also return to take the role of Andrea. Ole Kibsgaard and Christine Skou played Ole and Carla, the two humans on the show.