{{Short description|Norwegian revue and film actor and theatre director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
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'''Ernst Diesen''' (6 April 1913 – 14 November 1970) was a Norwegian revue and film actor and theatre director.
==Personal life== Diesen was born on 6 April 1913 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of Andreas Melchior Seip Diesen (1881–1958) and Sofie Elisabeth Aars Brodtkorb (1885–1968).<ref name=nbl/> In 1937, he married the singer and revue actress Kari Diesen (1914–1987).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Kari_Diesen |title=Kari Diesen |publisher=Norsk biografisk leksikon|author=Svend Erik Løken Larsen|accessdate= April 1, 2018}}</ref> They were the parents of Andreas Diesen.<ref name=snl/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Kari Diesen |first= |last= |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-first=Erik | editor-last=Bolstad |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Kari_Diesen |language=no |accessdate=31 March 2024}}</ref>
==Career== Diesen studied at the theater school operated by Max Reinhardt in Berlin from 1932 to 1933. He was a student at Det Nye Teater from 1933 to 1934. He worked for the revue theatre Chat Noir from 1934 to 1942 and as theater director from 1950 to 1953. He was at the Edderkoppen Theatre from 1943 to 1950 and again from 1954 to 1959.<ref name="nbl"/>
He also acted in several films, including the comedy films ''Bør Børson Jr.'' from 1938, ''Den forsvundne pølsemaker'' from 1941, ''Det æ'kke te å tru'' from 1942, ''Smuglere i smoking'', and ''Pappa tar gull'' from 1964.<ref name=nbl/>
Diesen died in Oslo on 14 November 1970.<ref name=snl/>
==References== <references>
<ref name=snl>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Ernst Diesen |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Ernst_Diesen |editor=Henriksen, Petter|language=Norwegian|accessdate=20 March 2011 }}</ref> <ref name=nbl>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Ernst Diesen |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Svend Erik Løken |last=Larsen |editor=Helle, Knut |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Ernst_Diesen/utdypning|language=Norwegian |accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref>
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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Diesen, Ernst}} Category:1913 births Category:1970 deaths Category:Male actors from Oslo Category:Norwegian male stage actors Category:Norwegian male film actors Category:Norwegian theatre directors Category:20th-century Norwegian male actors
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