Svend Melsing (27 December 1888 – 8 June 1946)[1] was a Danish stage and film actor, theatre director and playwright whose career spanned nearly forty years.

His first role at Nordisk was in the 1912 August Blom directed comedy short Direktørens Datter, starring Carl Alstrup and Karen Poulsen.

His most popular role at Palladium was as the character Cardenio in Lau Lauritzen's 1926 silent film adaptation of Don Quixote.

After retiring from film, he would return to the Frederiksberg Theatre and the Allé-Scenen Teater as a director and actor.

[5] In 1945, his play De kloge og vi gale was adapted into a film by Lau Lauritzen, Jr. and Alice O'Fredericks for Spillefilm, and starred Poul Reumert.