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Jun 11, 1944 Aabyhøj, Central Denmark Region, Denmark Died on 06 Nov 2003 (aged 59)
Danish film producer
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About Just Betzer
- Just Betzer (11 June 1944 – 6 November 2003), was a Danish Oscar-winning film producer, born in Åbyhøj, Denmark.Betzer began his career managing the candy concession and as an alternate projectionist at his father's theater in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1955.
- In 1960, Betzer founded Panorama Film production/distribution company in Denmark, which has since made over 30 feature films.
- He later opened a chain of 13 theatres throughout Denmark.
- In 1985, Betzer moved to England, and started the London-based company Panorama Film International with offices in Copenhagen, Denmark and Los Angeles, California. In 1987, the film Babette's Feast, produced by Betzer, was released.
- Babette's Feast won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and the BAFTA Best Foreign Film award, in 1988.
- Two years later, he opened the Los Angeles-based production company, Just Betzer Films.
- His other films include Winterborn, Assassination, And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird, Nobody's Perfect, The Misfit Brigade, and the erotic The Girl in a Swing, with Meg Tilly.
- Betzer died from a coronary embolism at age 59 on 6 November 2003, in Lumsaas, Denmark.
