Fridtjof Mjøen
Fridtjof Otto Rudolf Greverus Mjøen (born August 3, 1897 in Magdeburg , † October 21, 1967 in Oslo , Norway ) was a Norwegian actor and doctor.
Life
He grew up as the eldest of six children of the Norwegian pharmacist and racial hygienist Jon Alfred Mjøen (1860-1939) and the translator Cläre Greverus Mjøen (1874-1963) in Germany. After his youth and school days in Norway, which he lived in an artistically ambitious home near Oslo , he studied medicine in Rostock at the request of his father . He received his doctorate there in 1923 on "the inheritance of musicality". For a few years he supported his father in his work in the Vinderen Biological Laboratory.
Against his father's wishes, he renounced a medical career and made his debut in 1927 at the Central Theater in Oslo in a play by Schnitzler . After engagements at several Oslo theaters, in which he appeared mainly in revues and cabaret, the actor had his first film role in the German-Norwegian silent film Snowshoe Bandits in 1928 . From then on, stage roles and directing work alternated. In 1938 he went to Berlin , where he a. a. embodied small roles in two feature films and played under Gustaf Gründgens at the Schauspielhaus Theater. At the beginning of the war he left Germany and went to Sweden , where he shot the feature film "En, menn ett lejon" in 1940. After making a feature film in German-occupied Norway in 1942 , he went to Finland in 1943 for a film project .
In the post-war period he became a popular Norwegian stage actor and director. He made a few films and became popular as a radio play speaker.
Fridtjof Mjøen was married twice. His brother was the Norwegian actor Jon Lennart Mjøen (1912-1997).
Filmography (selection)
- 1927: Madame besøker Oslo
- 1928: Snowshoe bandits
- 1938: The deceived caliph
- 1938: The stars shine
- 1938: The scarab
- 1939: twelve minutes past twelve
Web links
- Fridtjof Mjøen in the Norske Leksikon store
- Fridtjof Mjøen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Fridtjof Mjøen's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mjøen, Fridtjof |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mjøen, Fridtjof Otto Rudolf Greverus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian actor and medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1967 |
| Place of death | Oslo , Norway |