Svend Melsing (27 December 1888 â€" 8 June 1946) was a Danish stage
and film actor, theatre director and playwright whose career spanned
nearly forty years.Born Svend Nielsen in Fredericia, Denmark, he was
the son of Peder Nielsen, who was an army infantry captain and
military commander, and Marie Hansine Rose. His father died in 1901
when Melsing was thirteen. At age eighteen he changed his surname from
Nielsen to Melsing. He began studying acting under the tutelage of
Danish stage actress Soffy Walleen and was a student at the Royal
Danish Theatre School in Copenhagen from 1910 until 1912.Melsing made
his theatre debut at the Royal Danish Theatre on 10 March 1912 as the
character Albert Ebbesen in Johan Ludvig Heiberg's 1828 comedy
Elverhøi (Elves' Hill). He would continue as an actor at the Royal
Danish Theatre until 1914, followed by an engagement at the
Dagmarteatret from 1914 until 1926 and the Casino Theatre during the
1926â€"1927 season. He would also do several tours with the Betty
Nansen Teatret, Det Ny Teater and the Casino Theatre. From 1938 until
1943 he would become the winter season theatre director of the
Frederiksberg Theatre and director of the Allé-Scenen Teater from
January until July 1944.
and film actor, theatre director and playwright whose career spanned
nearly forty years.Born Svend Nielsen in Fredericia, Denmark, he was
the son of Peder Nielsen, who was an army infantry captain and
military commander, and Marie Hansine Rose. His father died in 1901
when Melsing was thirteen. At age eighteen he changed his surname from
Nielsen to Melsing. He began studying acting under the tutelage of
Danish stage actress Soffy Walleen and was a student at the Royal
Danish Theatre School in Copenhagen from 1910 until 1912.Melsing made
his theatre debut at the Royal Danish Theatre on 10 March 1912 as the
character Albert Ebbesen in Johan Ludvig Heiberg's 1828 comedy
Elverhøi (Elves' Hill). He would continue as an actor at the Royal
Danish Theatre until 1914, followed by an engagement at the
Dagmarteatret from 1914 until 1926 and the Casino Theatre during the
1926â€"1927 season. He would also do several tours with the Betty
Nansen Teatret, Det Ny Teater and the Casino Theatre. From 1938 until
1943 he would become the winter season theatre director of the
Frederiksberg Theatre and director of the Allé-Scenen Teater from
January until July 1944.
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