Knut Christian Langaard (February 2, 1886 – May 1, 1965) was a Norwegian athlete, Olympic competitor,[1][2] landowner,[3] dog breeder, and actor.

[7] Langaard's only son, Christian K. Langaard, fought on the Allied side in the Second World War and fell during the campaign in North Africa in 1942.

[10] That marriage also ended in divorce, and his ex-wife Linge married the sculptor Knut Henrik Lund in 1959.

[11] In 1929, Langaard made his theater debut in the Hans Bille Tour in the play The Spanish Fly by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach.

There he played the role of the lawyer Gerlach, in a debut that the newspaper Smaalenenes Social-Demokrat described as "quite successful": "It's just so strange to see him play a slightly faded copy of himself; he possesses in his private life a far fuller measure of all the freshness, gallows humor, and disdain for difficulties that precisely Gerlach's role is mixed together from.