{{Short description|Norwegian actor}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = | name = Knut Jacobsen | birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|03|19|mf=y}} | birth_place = Moss, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|09|18|1910|03|19|mf=y}} | death_place = | resting_place= | occupation = Actor, costume designer | yearsactive = | spouse = | children = | mother = | father = | relatives = }}
'''Knut Jacobsen''' (March 19, 1910 – September 18, 1971) was a Norwegian actor and costume designer.<ref name="SNL">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Knut Jacobsen |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Knut_Jacobsen |access-date=April 28, 2021 |year=2020 |language=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lein |first1=Magne |title=Spioner in eget land: norske radiooperatører i Secret Service, Kompani Linge, XU, Milorg og sovjetisk tjeneste 1940–45 |date=2003 |publisher=Genesis |location=Oslo |page=112}}</ref>
As a student at the National Theater in Oslo, he studied with Egil Eide, and he took singing lessons with the well-known singing teacher Arne van Erpekum Sem and dance lessons with Inga Jacobi.<ref name="Oisang">{{cite book |last1=Øisang |first1=Ole |title=Profiler ved Trøndelag teater |date=1941 |publisher=F. Bruns bokhandel |location=Trondheim}}</ref>
Jacobsen debuted in 1932 at the National Theater in Henrik Ibsen's play ''An Enemy of the People'', which was staged as Egil Eide's anniversary performance.<ref name="Oisang"/> He then also worked at the Oslo New Theater and the Søilen Theater.<ref name="Oisang"/> After a few years in Oslo, he moved to Trondheim in 1937 and started performing at the Trøndelag Theater, where he quickly became one of the theatre's driving forces. For fifteen years he was the costume director<ref name="Oisang"/> at the Trøndelag Theater in addition to performing on stage as an actor and singer. Among Jacobsen's roles in plays by Ibsen were Doctor Wangel in ''The Lady from the Sea'', Kroll in ''Rosmersholm'', Stockmann in ''An Enemy of the People'', and Manders in ''Ghosts''. He also appeared in operettas and revues.<ref name="SNL"/>
Jacobsen appeared in supporting roles in the films ''To levende og en død'' (1937) and ''Trysil-Knut'' (1942).
==Filmography== * 1937: ''To levende og en død'' as the doctor<ref>{{cite web |title=To levende og en død |url=https://www.nb.no/filmografi/show?id=791618 |website=Norsk filmografi |publisher=Nasjonalbiblioteket |access-date=April 28, 2021}}</ref> * 1942: ''Trysil-Knut'' as an adjutant<ref>{{cite web |title=Trysil-Knut |url=https://www.nb.no/filmografi/show?id=791653 |website=Norsk filmografi |publisher=Nasjonalbiblioteket |access-date=April 28, 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0414748|name=Knut Jacobsen}} * [https://www.filmfront.no/aktor/63247/knut-jacobsen Knut Jacobsen] at Filmfront * [https://sceneweb.no/nb/artist/19932/Knut_Jacobsen-1910-3-19 Knut Jacobsen] at Sceneweb
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