
Arthur Jensen was originally trained as a tailor and later educated at the Royal Theatre's student school 1920-23 and had an extensive theatre career. He experienced his heyday on television after passing the age of 70. He never achieved the same heights in film as he did in television, with roles such as caretaker Meyer in Huset på Christianshavn (1970-77) and clerk Schwan from Damernes Magasin in Matador (1978-81). With the exception of when he reprised the character of caretaker Meyer in Erik Balling's film version of the TV series, Ballade på Christianshavn (1971). It was his best film performance. He portrayed the two TV series characters shamelessly on his distinctive type: the comically aunty as caretaker Meyer and the sly and vain as clerk Schwan. What could have ended up as a gay caricature becomes human portraits in the garb of folk comedy, not least thanks to Arthur Jensen's humor, which at once shows solidarity and irony with the characters. It took a long time for Arthur Jensen to discovery who he was as an actor. After four silent film supporting roles at Fy&Bi, he formed a comedic duo with Ib Schønberg in several of Alice O'Fredericks' and Lau Lauritzen's energetic prank farces in the 1930s, but the fun is sporadic, and the inventions are often self-satisfied and infantile. His recurring role as a whiny spanking boy for the healthy guys in these films, including director Lauritzen himself, are particularly unfunny and almost unpleasant.

Gys og gæve tanter

Matador

Affæren i Mølleby

Huset på Christianshavn

Lille Virgil og Orla Frøsnapper

Jensen længe leve!

Under byens tage

To skøre ho'der

Den gamle mølle paa Mols

Inkognito

Barken Margrethe

Olsen-banden

Olsen-banden deruda'

Han, hun og Hamlet

Giftes - nej tak!

Kriminalsagen Tove Andersen

Kristinus Bergman

Vores lille by

Olsen-banden går amok

Mifunes sidste sang

Olsen-banden overgiver sig aldrig

Den kloge mand

Olsen-bandens store kup

I løvens tegn

Ballade på Christianshavn

I kongens klæ'r

Don Olsen kommer til byen

Damernes ven

Ud i den kolde sne

Manden på Svanegården

Flagermusen

Kidnapped

Panserbasse

Hvad med os?

Pigen og pressefotografen

Agent 69 Jensen i Skorpionens tegn

Een pige og 39 sømænd

Jeppe på Bjerget

Agent 69 Jensen i Skyttens tegn

Et eventyr om tre

Københavnere

Min søn Peter

Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde

Kristiane af Marstal

Slå først, Frede

Fængslende feriedage

Venus fra Vestø

Bussen

Snushanerne

Hærværk

Soya's en Tagsten i Ho'det

Tretten Aar

Fem raske piger

København, Kalundborg og -?

Smukke-Arne og Rosa

Nøddebo præstegård

Piger til søs

Nyhavns glade gutter

Ta' lidt solskin

I Tvillingernes tegn

Vi har det jo dejligt

Paw

5 mand og Rosa

Familien Olsen

Flaadens blaa matroser

Højt paa en Kvist

Mord for åbent tæppe

Week-end

Danmark for Folket

Hopla på sengekanten

Den røde rubin

Mig og min lillebror

Sømænd på sengekanten

Mazurka på sengekanten

Familien Gyldenkål vinder valget

Der må være en sengekant!

Tandlæge på sengekanten

Fætrene på Torndal

Sønnen fra Vingården

Dyden går amok

Sytten

Motorvej på sengekanten

Stormvarsel

Romantik på sengekanten

Utro

Livsens ondskab

Det tossede paradis

Champagnegaloppen