Ingolf Findregaard Schanche (13 June 1877 – 15 April 1954) was a Norwegian actor and

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. He spent most of his career at

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, and was also the first artistic director at Det Nye Teater.

Personal life

Schanche was born in

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as the son of shipmaster Christian Fredrik Grøner Schanche (1847–1918) and Ida P. M. Larsen (1848–1896). He was a distant relative of postmaster Jens Schanche and Herman Garmann Schanche. He was married to actress Ragnhild Fredriksen (1882–1963) from July 1905. Ingolf Schanche as Hamlet 1920

Career

He made his stage début in 1897 at the Bergen theatre

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in Peter Egge's play ''Stridsmænd'', and acted at Den Nationale Scene for two seasons. He joined Ludovica Levy and Dore Lavik at their theatre Sekondteatret in

from the start in 1899. One year later he played at Centralteatret and then at Fahlstrøms Teater. In 1905 he started working at

. He stayed at Nationaltheatret until 1928, when he was actor and manager for Det Nye Teater, which opened in 1929. From 1931 to 1942 he again played at Nationaltheatret. Schanche also appeared in a number of films beginning with the 1913 Carl Gandrup directed

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short ''Under Kniven''. His last film appearance was in the 1939

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, Stockholm and

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. He played comedy roles such as "Count Danilo" in Lehár's ''

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'', Ibsen characters such as "Bishop Nikolas" and "Gregers Werle", the Bjørnson character "Paul Lange", and "Fedja" in

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's play ''

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''. The height of his career was "Hamlet" in

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, a role he played first time in 1921. Schanche was an honorary member of the Swedish Union for Theatre, Artists and Media. He was a Knight of the Swedish

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, and was decorated Knight, First Class of the

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in 1937.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schanche, Ingolf 1877 births 1954 deaths Actors from Bergen Norwegian male stage actors Norwegian male film actors Norwegian male silent film actors 20th-century Norwegian male actors Norwegian theatre directors Knights of the Order of Vasa Theatre people from Bergen