Name Ingolf Schanche | Died April 15, 1954 | |
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Ingolf Findregaard Schanche (13 June 1877 – 15 April 1954) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He spent most of his career at Nationaltheatret in Oslo, and was also the first artistic director at Det Nye Teater.
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Personal life
Schanche was born in Bergen as the son of shipmaster Christian Fredrik Groner 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.
Career
He made his stage debut in 1897 at the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene in Peter Egge's play Stridsmaend, and acted at Den Nationale Scene for two seasons. He joined Ludovica Levy and Dore Lavik at their theatre Sekondteatret in Oslo from the start in 1899. One year later he played at Centralteatret and then at Fahlstroms Teater. In 1905 he started working at Nationaltheatret. 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 Nationalteatret.
During the 1920s he often made guest performances at theatres in Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen. He played comedy roles such as "Count Danilo" in Lehar's The Merry Widow, Ibsen characters such as "Bishop Nikolas" and "Gregers Werle", the Bjornson character "Paul Lange", and "Fedja" in Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse. The height of his career was "Hamlet" in Shakespeare's tragedy, 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 Order of Vasa, and was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1937.