Per Aabel

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Per Pavels Aabel was a respected Norwegian comic actor son of comedian Hauk Aabel.

He studied ballet in London and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. He then embarked on training with the great theatre director Max Reinhardt in Vienna before making his stage debut in 1931.

Aabel spent a number of years as a principal actor and teacher with major theatre companies in Oslo during the 1930s and but did not appear in film until the late 1940s. His work is most renowned with the Norwegian theatre.