was an Austrian actor, film director and film producer. He came to Bosnia-Herzegovina with his parents at the age of three and grew up there in a Benedictine monastery. During the First World War he served in the military for a time. During the war he received singing training in Vienna and completed a business apprenticeship. In the winter of 1917/18 he was discovered for film by the Danish director Einar Zangenberg. He took the stage name Olaf Fjord and appeared as an actor in numerous Austrian, French, Czech and American silent and sound film productions. Among other things, he played the Bavarian King Ludwig II in the 1921 biography Ludwig II. In his vita he repeatedly referred to himself as a Norwegian. Advertisement for the newly founded Fjord-Film in the Neue Kino-Rundschau Together with Harald Gurschner, the son of the sculptor Gustav Gurschner and the writer Paul Althof, he founded the film production company Fjord-Film in 1920. As a producer, he made a name for himself in Nazi Germany with his company Olaf Fjord Film Produktion GmbH, founded in June 1934, through an early version of the repeatedly adapted material Holiday from Me (1934, based on the novel by Paul Keller) and the film adaptation of the Knut Hamsun novella Pan (1937), which he directed and completed himself after the director Josef Rovenský fell ill. His attempt to film the novel Gösta Berling failed in 1938. In January 1939 he emigrated to the USA, where he lived for a while. His half-brother was the actor Oskar Pouché. In 1923 they also played two brothers in the film “The Emperor’s Couriers” and also appeared together in “Two Men”. Actor Victor Varconi was Fjord’s cousin
