Conrad Arnesen

{{Short description|Norwegian actor and opera singer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}}

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| name = Conrad Arnesen

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|05|05}}

| birth_place = Kristiania, Norway

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|05|25|1891|05|05}}

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| occupation = Actor, opera singer

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Conrad Arnesen (May 5, 1891 – May 25, 1955) was a Norwegian actor and opera singer.{{cite web |title=Conrad Arnesen |url=https://sceneweb.no/nb/artist/19468/Conrad_Arnesen-1891-5-5 |website=Sceneweb|accessdate=June 9, 2019}}

Arnesen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo). He made his film debut in 1922 in Erling Eriksen's Kjærlighet paa pinde, in which he played one of the film's three main roles together with August Schønemann and Ellen Sinding. In 1938, Arnesen had a minor role in Toralf Sandø and Knut Hergel's film Bør Børson Jr.{{cite web |title=Bør Børson jr. |url=https://www.nb.no/filmografi/show?id=95716 |website=Norsk filmografi |publisher=Nasjonalbiblioteket |accessdate=June 9, 2019}} He was also active with the Oslo New Theater in the 1920s and 1930s, and with Oslo's Opera Comique, where he worked under Benno Singer.{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon |title=Benno Singer |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Benno_Singer |access-date=June 9, 2019 |language=no}}