Kristensen has starred in shows and plays including roles like Tony in West Side Story , King Claudius in William Shakespeare 's Hamlet , McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy , Albin in La Cage Aux Folles , Phantom in Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera ,[ 2] and Max Bialystok in Mel Brooks 's musical comedy The Producers . In 1979 he created the musical and comedy group Linie 3 together with Thomas Eje and Anders Bircow . He has performed with the best symphony orchestras in Denmark.
Kristensen is the localized Danish voice of Lumiere in Disney's Beauty and the Beast ,[ 3] Genie in Disney's Aladdin ,[ 4] Berkeley Beetle in Don Bluth 's Thumbelina , Woody in Toy Story 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 ,[ 5] and Ramon in Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two .[ citation needed ]
On television, Kristensen was one of the main characters in season two of The Killing and also appeared in the final season of Borgen .[ citation needed ]
Kristensen has received several awards for his acting, and was in 2003 knighted by Margrethe II of Denmark .[ citation needed ]