Alfred Jørgen Gjems Selmer (June 4, 1893 – January 30, 1919) was a Norwegian actor. Selmer was born in Balsfjord, Norway, the son of the district physician Alfred Selmer and the actress and writer

Ågot Gjems Selmer Ågot Gjems Selmer, also Ågot Gjems-Selmer, (27 October 1857 – 25 September 1926) was a Norwegian actress, writer, and lecturer. Biography Gjems-Selmer was born into a wealthy family in Kongsvinger, Norway. She was the eldest of nine sibling ...

. One of his sisters was the singer

Tordis Gjems Selmer Tordis Gjems Selmer (June 2, 1886 – February 15, 1964) was a Norwegian singer. Selmer was born in Balsfjord, Norway, the son of the district physician Alfred Selmer and the actress and writer Ågot Gjems Selmer. She was the sister of the actor ...

, and another was the actress and writer

Lillemor von Hanno Lillemor von Hanno (née Bergljot Selmer; 30 December 1900 – 5 April 1984) was a Norwegian actress, novelist and playwright. Personal life Von Hanno was born in Balsfjord, the daughter of the actress Ågot Gjems Selmer (1858–1926) and the ...

. Selmer was married to the actress Liv Uchermann Selmer. In 1918, Selmer played Erhart Borkman in a production of

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

's '' John Gabriel Borkman'' at the National Theater in Bergen. Selmer died of the

Spanish flu The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...

in 1919.

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