Edvard Drabløs (1 April 1883 – 29 April 1976) was a

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actor and theatre director.

Biography

Drabløs was born at

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in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was the son of Jens Helgesen Drabløs (1856–1925) and Olave Velle (1852–1917). He worked most of his professional career at

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, from 1912. He was the director of this theatre from 1915 to 1916 and 1950 to 1951. He also appeared in approximately twenty films, beginning in the 1910s through the 1950s.Edvard Drabløs

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, retrieved 26 March 2013 He was proclaimed Knight, First Class of the

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in 1953. Drabløs died in

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in 1976 at the age of 93.

Filmography

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