Adopted by the Dreyer family

Left home

Worked as a theater critic

First passenger to fly between Denmark and Sweden

Hired as newspaper columnist for "Ekstrabladet"

Screenwriting debut with "Bryggerens Datter/The Brewer's Daughter"

Hired by Nordisk Films Kompagni as screenwriter

Film directing debut with "Praesidenten/The President" (also screenwriter)

Left Nordisk Films Kompagni

Formed independent production company with Baron Nicholas de Gunzburg in early 1930s

Made last and most notable silent film, "The Passion of Joan of Arc"

First sound film as director, "Vampyr"

Made manager of Copenhagan cinema house, Dagmar, by Danish government

Last film, "Gertrud"