Ingolf Schanche

Ingolf Findregaard Schanche (13 June 1877 – 15 April 1954) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director.

He spent most of his career at Nationaltheatret in Oslo, and was also the first artistic director at Det Nye Teater.

He joined Ludovica Levy and Dore Lavik at their theatre Sekondteatret in Oslo from the start in 1899.

His last film appearance was in the 1939 Sigurd Wallén directed Swedish language drama Mot nya tider.

He played comedy roles such as "Count Danilo" in Lehár's The Merry Widow, Ibsen characters such as "Bishop Nikolas" and "Gregers Werle", the Bjørnson character "Paul Lange", and "Fedja" in Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse.