Edvard Drabløs

Edvard Drabløs (1 April 1883 – 29 April 1976) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director.[1]

Edvard Drabløs in 1961

Biography

Drabløs was born at Sykkylven 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 Det Norske Teatret, 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.[2]

He was proclaimed Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1953. Drabløs died in Oslo in 1976 at the age of 93.[2][3]

Selected filmography

References
  1. "Edvard Drabløs". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  2. Edvard Drabløs Norsk Biografisk Leksikon, retrieved 26 March 2013 (in Norwegian)
  3. "Edvard Drabløs". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
Cultural offices
Preceded by
Rasmus Rasmussen		 Director of the Det Norske Teatret
1915–1916		 Succeeded by
Amund Rydland



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