Ernst Legal

{{Short description|German actor and opera director}}

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{{Infobox actor

| name = Ernst Legal

| image = Fotothek df pk 0000019 040 Porträt Intendant Ernst Legal.jpg

| caption = Ernst Legal in 1945

| birth_name = Ernst Otto Eduard Legal

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1881|5|2}}

| birth_place = Schlieben, Prussia, German Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1955|6|29|1881|5|2}}

| death_place = West Berlin, West Germany

| occupation = Actor

}}

Ernst Otto Eduard Legal (2 May 1881 – 29 June 1955) was a German actor and opera director of Berlin State Opera.{{cite book |author= |date=2020 |title=Five Months in Berlin: Letters of Edgar N. Johnson from Occupied Germany |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Five_Months_in_Berlin/NKLiDwAAQBAJ |publisher=De Gruyter |page=268 |isbn=9783110651058 |access-date=February 16, 2025}}

Born on 2 May 1881 in Schlieben in the Prussian Province of Saxony, he was the father of the actress Marga Legal. He died in West Berlin at age 74.

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