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Filmmaker · Norway

Harald Schwenzen

Died in 1954

Harald Schwenzen was born on 18 May 1895, in Glücksburg in Germany. He built his career at the National Theatre in Oslo, where he played leading roles, Don Carlos and Peer Gynt among others, and also appeared on screen. President of the Norwegian actors' union under the occupation, he was arrested and interned at Grini, then at Sachsenhausen. In 1951 he received the King's Medal of Merit in gold and died in Oslo on 16 April 1954.

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