Birte Tove

She is best known for her work in the 1970s Bedside-films (Danish: Sengekantsfilm), an erotic film series produced by A/S Palladium. Her films were popular internationally, and in Hong Kong she was nicknamed, "the Danish Elizabeth Taylor".

Birte Tove
Tove in 1969
Born	Birte Tove Sørensen (1945-01-16)16 January 1945 Helsingør, Denmark
Died	6 February 2016(2016-02-06) (aged 71)
Resting place	Søllerød Cemetery
Spouse	Ole Schächter (divorced)
Children	2

Alongside her modeling and acting career, Tove trained as a nurse, and she worked for several years in home care.

Birte Tove was born on 16 January 1945 in Helsingør, Denmark. She had been married Ole Brix Schächter from October 1970 until 1995, which ended in divorce. Tove was the mother of 2 children, including actors Anne Katrine Tove Brix and Adam Brix Schächter [da].

In 1967, she first appeared as a model in Ekstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid newspaper. In 1969, Tove had her first acting role in the American–Danish film Swedish Fly Girls (1971; Danish: Christa), where she played a free-spirited flight attendant looking for love. Throughout the 1970s, she starred in many Bedside-films, often alongside actor Ole Søltoft. She lived in Hong Kong from 1972 until 1975, where she worked with the Shaw Brothers Studio and filmed Sexy Girls of Denmark (1973), Bamboo House of Dolls (1973), and The Mini Skirt Gang (1975).

Tove died on 6 February 2016 from multiple sclerosis.

Film

Television

• List of Danish films of the 1970s