Knut Christian Langaard
{{Short description|Norwegian athlete, landowner, dog breeder, and actor (1886–1965)}}
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| name = Knut Christian Langaard
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|02|02|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|05|01|1886|02|02|mf=y}}
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| occupation = Athlete, landowner, dog breeder, and actor
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| spouse = Linge Langård
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| father = Christian Langaard
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Knut Christian Langaard (February 2, 1886 – May 1, 1965) was a Norwegian athlete, Olympic competitor,{{cite book |title=The Fourth Olympiad: Being the Official Report of the Olympic Games of 1908 Celebrated in London Under the Patronage of His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII and by the Sanction of the International Olympic Committee |date=1909 |publisher=British Olympic Association |location=London |page=240}}{{cite book |last1=Mallon |first1=Bill |last2=Buchanan |first2=Ian |title=The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary |date=2000 |publisher=McFarland and Company |location=Jefferson, NC |page=218}} landowner,{{cite book |title=Norske Slægter 1912 |date=1911 |publisher=Kristiania (Oslo) |location=Gyldendal |page=170}} dog breeder, and actor.{{cite web |title=Langaard, Knut Christian |url=https://www.steinkjerleksikonet.no/langaard_knut_christian |website=Steinkjerleksikonet |access-date=October 5, 2022}}
Family
Langaard was the son of the businessman and patron of the arts Christian Langaard (1849–1922) and Ellevine Marie Langaard (1857–1890).{{cite web |title=Knut Christian |url=https://histreg.no/index.php/person/pd00000025312024 |website=Historisk befolkningsregister |publisher=Registreringssentral for historiske data |access-date=October 6, 2022 |location=Tromsø}} His first marriage was to Elisif Fearnley (1889–1954),{{cite web |title=Knut Kristian Langaard |url=https://histreg.no/index.php/person/pd00000035343707 |website=Historisk befolkningsregister |publisher=Registreringssentral for historiske data |access-date=October 6, 2022 |location=Tromsø}} the daughter of the shipowner and industrialist Thomas Nicolay Fearnley, in the fall of 1910. In the next few years, the couple had the children Ella Marie (born 1911), Cecil (born 1912), Elisabeth (born 1914), Christian Knut (born 1915), and Elisif (born 1919).{{cite web |title=Folketelling 1920 for 0417 Stange herred |url=https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/person/pf01073710004238 |website=Digitalarkivet |publisher=Nasjonalbiblioteket |access-date=October 6, 2022}} Langaard's only son, Christian K. Langaard, fought on the Allied side in the Second World War and fell during the campaign in North Africa in 1942.{{cite news |title=Krigsmedalien post mortem |url=https://www.nb.no/items/9a74ea8252e194cf231d3da3f2493670?page=1 |access-date=October 6, 2022 |work=Telemark Arbeiderblad |issue=294 |date=December 22, 1947 |page=6}} His first marriage ended in divorce. His second marriage was to the 23-year-old daughter of Didrik Cappelen: the actress Ingrid "Linge" Cappelen (1905–1981),{{cite book |title=Studentene fra 1903: biografiske opplysninger samlet til 50-års jubiléet 1953 |date=1953 |publisher=Merkur |location=Oslo |page=48}} an engagement announced in the summer of 1928.{{cite news |title=Familien |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digavis_tidenstegn_null_null_19280717_0_164_1?searchText=familien&page=3 |access-date=October 6, 2022 |work=Tidens Tegn |issue=164 |date=July 17, 1928 |page=5}} That marriage also ended in divorce, and his ex-wife Linge married the sculptor Knut Henrik Lund in 1959.{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Knut Henrik Lund |encyclopedia=Norsk kunstner-leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo |url=https://nkl.snl.no/Knut_Henrik_Lund |language=Norwegian|accessdate=October 6, 2022}}
Acting career
In 1929, Langaard made his theater debut in the Hans Bille Tour in the play The Spanish Fly by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach. There he played the role of the lawyer Gerlach, in a debut that the newspaper Smaalenenes Social-Demokrat described as "quite successful": "It's just so strange to see him play a slightly faded copy of himself; he possesses in his private life a far fuller measure of all the freshness, gallows humor, and disdain for difficulties that precisely Gerlach's role is mixed together from."{{cite news |title=Den spanske flue |url=https://www.nb.no/items/4ee1b688ae08b9997aec595d6e37ed9c?page=3 |access-date=October 7, 2022 |work=Smaalenenes Social-Demokrat |issue=41 |date=February 18, 1929 |page=4}} The following year Langaard toured with and played opposite his wife Linge Langård in the Kronstad–Langård Tour with the farce Guttebassen by Margaret Margo.{{cite news |title=Guttebassen |url=https://www.nb.no/items/a6f53923193ce5c8d96fc2b78e0a2659?page=1 |access-date=October 7, 2022 |work=Hamar Arbeiderblad |issue=237 |date=October 28, 1930 |page=3}}
Filmography
- 1930: Eskimo as the captain{{cite book |last1=Klaus |first1=Ulrich J. |title=Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1932 |date=1988 |publisher=Klaus-Archiv |location=Berlin |pages=267-268}}{{cite news |title=Lena Kino |url=https://www.nb.no/items/e4c809c32b0fcb66ffaadd2a61cea581?page=1 |access-date=October 5, 2022 |work=Totens Blad |issue=87 |date=August 8, 1931 |page=2}}
- 1932: Der weiße Gott as the captain
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0486409|name=Knut Christian Langaard}}
- [https://filmfront.no/aktor/63540/ Knut Christian Langaard] at Filmfront
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Category:20th-century Norwegian male actors