Biography

Norwegian actor, son of Hauk Aabel. Growing up in the world of theatre and films, Per Aabel was groomed for a life in the arts. He studied ballet in London and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. He followed this with training with the great theatre director Max Reinhardt in Vienna. His stage debut was in 1931 and he spent a number of years as a principal actor and teacher with major theatre companies in Oslo. He did not appear in films for nearly a decade after that, and his cinematic output was not large. He prospered in the Norwegian theatre and became one of its most respected comic actors.
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Son of Hauk Aabel.

As a young child his family were neighbours and friends with the legendary playwright Henrik Ibsen. Aabel himself was only four when Ibsen died but has a clear memory of himself riding on his lap as a child.

Fourth oldest male actor in Norway so far, he was 97 years and eight months old when he died in Desember 1999. Behind Stein Grieg Halvorsen (104) , Espen Skjønberg (98,4) Rolf Sand (98,3).

He is buried at Oslo Western Civil Cemetery.

The newspapers Dagbladet and VG in Oslo, Norway, gave him the entire first page the day after his death on December 22. 1999.