Henry Gleditsch(1902-1942)
- Actor
Norwegian actor and stage manager,stage debut in 1923.With his boyish
good looking,and with a very good singing voice,he got many parts as
lover in both operettas and comedies. Among his later parts were
Horatio,(Shakespeare) and as Marchbanks.(Shaw) From 1934 to 1935 he was
manager at Søilen Theater in Oslo, and in 1937 he became founder and
manager at Trøndelag Theater in Trondheim. In films his best parts were
as: Mellet in Laila (1929) as Gründer in A Quiet flirt (1933)
and as manager in the danish movie: De tre måske fire (1939) A
fearless defender for the human rights,and for the art of theater,he
opposed the Nazi-regime from the start.For his resistance he was
executed in the Falstad wood on October 7th 1942,together with nine
other citizens from Trondheim.
