Henning Bahs

{{short description|Danish screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Henning Bahs | birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|3|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Copenhagen, Denmark | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|3|29|1928|3|12|df=yes}} | death_place = Herlev, Denmark | occupation = Screenwriter | years_active = 1960–2002 }}

'''Henning Bahs''' (12 March 1928 – 29 March 2002){{r|Sundholm 2012}} was a Danish screenwriter and special effects designer. He wrote for more than 40 films between 1960 and 2002. He is best known as the co-author (with Erik Balling) of the ''Olsen-banden'' series of films.{{r|Abrahamsen 1978}} The Henning Bahs Award was established in 2012 by the Danish Film Critics Association in commemoration of Bahs' death ten years earlier.{{r|Politiken 2012}}

== Selected filmography == * ''Forelsket i København'' (1960) * ''A Farmer's Life'' (1965) * ''Relax Freddie'' (1966) * ''The Olsen Gang'' (1968) * ''The Olsen Gang Sees Red'' (1976) * ''Jeppe på bjerget'' (1981) * ''Varning för Jönssonligan'' (1981) * ''Jönssonligan och Dynamit-Harry'' (1982) * ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'' (1984)

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<ref name="Abrahamsen 1978">{{cite book | last = Abrahamsen | first = P.B. | title = Danske dramatikeres forbund 1978: en fortegnelse over medlenmernes arbejder | publisher = Danske Dramatikeres Forbund | year = 1978 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sZLkAAAAMAAJ | language = da | access-date = 19 February 2018 | page = 21 }}</ref> <ref name="Politiken 2012">{{cite news | first = Mette | last = Lützhøft | title = Dansk film får ny pris | work = Politiken | date = 14 February 2012 | url = https://politiken.dk/kultur/filmogtv/art5598149/Dansk-film-f%C3%A5r-ny-pris | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171230060122/https://politiken.dk/kultur/filmogtv/art5598149/Dansk-film-f%C3%A5r-ny-pris | archive-date = 30 December 2017 | url-status = dead | access-date = 19 February 2018 }}</ref> <ref name="Sundholm 2012">{{cite book | last = Sundholm | first = J. | title = Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema | publisher = Scarecrow Press | series = Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-0-8108-5524-3 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ae4QqlUDt9wC&pg=PA68 | access-date = 19 February 2018 | page = 68 }}</ref>

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== External links == * {{IMDb name|0046987}} * {{DNFn|31}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bahs, Henning}} Category:1928 births Category:2002 deaths Category:Danish male screenwriters Category:Visual effects artists Category:20th-century Danish screenwriters Category:Bodil Honorary Award recipients