He was well known for his ability to perform “the colossus with feet of clay”, apparently solid and superior characters — both sympathetic and unsympathetic — who fall apart by the end of the film. Among his best-known serious performances are his mean-cultivated informer type in "Afsporet" (1942 - "Derailed"); his leader af a children’s home, a sadist with shattered nerves in the social film "Kampen mod uretten" (1949 - "The Struggle Against Injustice") and his two portraits of alcoholics in "Ta’ hvad du vil ha’" (1947 – "Take What You Want") and "Café Paradis" (1951). In his later years he was a regular participant in the so-called “Morten Korch films” (based upon the regional novels of a very popular Danish light literate) often placed as the fatherly friend of the hero and his serial role as a widower with children in the popular "Far til fire" ("The Father of Four") films.