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name: "Mogens Wieth"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mogens-wieth"
fi1m_id: "mogens-wieth"
imdb_id: "nm0927692"
tmdb_id: 975645
wikidata_id: "Q4992069"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 September 1919"
died: "10 September 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T07:55:09.313958+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mogens Wieth

## Identity

Mogens Wieth

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mogens-wieth
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mogens-wieth
- **IMDb ID:** nm0927692
- **TMDB ID:** 975645
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4992069
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogens_Wieth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4992069, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0927692/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/975645

Actor. Born 16 September 1919 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Died 10 September 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 September 1919, Copenhagen, Denmark
- **Died:** 10 September 1962
- **Also known as:** Могенс Вит
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogens_Wieth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4992069, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0927692/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/975645

## Biography

Mogens Wieth was a Danish actor who appeared in more than 20 films between 1940 and 1962. He was born in Copenhagen on 16 September 1919 and died in London on 10 September 1962.

He is known for his roles as the Ambassador in Alfred Hitchcock's *The Man Who Knew Too Much* (1956), Orla Leehmann in *For freedom and justice* (1949) and Crespel in *The Tales of Hoffmann* (1951). Wieth was the son of actors Carlo Wieth and Agnes Thorberg Wieth, and was married to actress Lily Weiding.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Man Who Knew Too Much* (1956), Fi1m 74, as Ambassador — [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-who-knew-too-much.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Private Potter* (1962), as Yannis
- *The Musketeers* (1961), as Frederik III
- *A Matter of Morals* (1961), as Erik Walderman
- *Be Dear to Me* (1957), Actor
- *Tante Tut fra Paris* (1956), as Claus Hiller
- *The Man Who Knew Too Much* (1956), as Ambassador — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-who-knew-too-much.md)
- *Arthur's Crime* (1955), as Akim Taroff
- *Som sendt fra himlen* (1951), as Allan/Alfred Kragh
- *24 Hours* (1951), as Hugo Strand
- *The Tales of Hoffmann* (1951), as Crespel
- *Aila – Pohjolan tytär* (1951), as Harm
- *For freedom and justice* (1949), as Orla Leehmann
- *Kampen mod uretten* (1949), Actor
- *Kongefilmen Frederik IX* (1949), as Speaker (voice)
- *While the Gate was Locked* (1948), Actor
- *Hatten er sat* (1947), Actor
- *Familien Swedenhielm* (1947), as Løjtnant Bo Swedenhielm
- *The Invisible Army* (1945), as Poul
- *Mit Liv er Musik* (1944), as Erik Smith, violinist
- *Drama på slottet* (1943), as Frederich von Kötschau - kammerjunker
- *I Met a Murderer* (1943), as Henrik Nielsen
- *A Gentleman in Top Hat and Tails* (1942), as Erik Rask
- *Nat-ekspressen (P. 903)* (1942), Actor
- *Regnen holdt op* (1942), as En ung Mand
- *Come Home With Me* (1941), as Asmus Asmussen
- *The Child* (1940), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Mogens Wieth](https://film.one/media/person/3874969/gallery-e34613a9603b.jpg) Mogens Wieth — Film trailer screenshot (Paramount Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Much_%281956%29_trailer_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mogens Wieth](https://film.one/media/person/3874969/gallery-8de7795ba18d.jpg) Mogens Wieth — Image via TMDB
- ![Mogens Wieth](https://film.one/media/person/3874969/gallery-1cf8d436d37b.jpg) Mogens Wieth — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1949: Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (won), for *Kampen mod uretten*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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