Egil Hjorth-Jenssen (18 April 1893 – 8 November 1969) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director, playwright, children's writer and translator.

Hjorth-Jenssen was born in Fredrikshald as a son of editor Gunnar Olaves Jenssen (1843–1924) and Anna Marie Cecilie Hjorth (1867–1929), and married Rachel Råby (1900–1958) in 1921.

He chaired the Norwegian Actors' Equity Association from 1932 to 1939, and served as theatre director of Den Nationale Scene in Bergen from 1939 to 1946.

[1][2] Hjorth-Jenssen was also a screen actor in movies such as: Den glade enke i Trangvik (1927), Bussen (1961), Musikanter (1967), De ukjentes marked (1968), and Brent jord (1969).

He penned the fifty-year history of the Norwegian Actors' Equity Association in 1948, and became an honorary member in 1964.