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176:). Psilander's charismatic performance earned him great praise and he quickly became Nordisk's highest-paid actor. Within two years, he was named the most popular male actor in film magazine readership polls around the world. During the course of the next 6 years, Psilander made 83 films. In a 2023 documentary about Psilander's life film historian Casper Tybjerg said that Valdemar Psilander was one of the world's first and biggest film stars.
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In 1911, Nordisk Film had a fine international reputation and a wide distribution network, but it was
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actor, who was the highest-paid performer of his period and received critical acclaim as the greatest male lead during the golden era of
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on 9 May 1884. At the age of 15, he was employed as an apprentice actor at the Casino theater in
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Psilander seldom granted interviews. In a rare newspaper interview from 1913, he spoke about his acting method:
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