Torben Ulrich

Torben Ulrich is one of those rare polymaths who make a single career feel narrow. A professional tennis player who was also a filmmaker, journalist, poet, and musician, he lived to 95 and happened to father Metallica's Lars Ulrich. What moves me is the refusal to be one thing: he competed at the highest level while turning inward through words and images. His whole life reads like an extended meditation on creativity, never settling into a single discipline. I deeply admire that kind of restless, free-spirited integrity, and the world feels a bit smaller without him.

Name (English)

Torben Ulrich

Name (Japanese)

トルベン・ウルリッヒ

Reading

とるべん・うるりっひ

Born

October 4, 1928 – December 20, 2023

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

Origin

Frederiksberg, Denmark

Height

180 cm

Occupation

tennis player / film director / journalist / writer / poet

• Official sitehttp://www.torbenulrich.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torben%20Ulrich
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%92
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q785404

Tags

• tennis player
• film director
• journalist

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.