Hjalmar Fries


Hjalmar Fries Schwenzen was a Norwegian actor and theater director. He had his film debut in Pan in 1922.
As Hjalmar Fries Schwenzen he worked as a war correspondent for the Oslo based Tidens Tegn in Macedonia, Greece, during the First [Balkan War].
Fries was employed at the Den [Nationale Scene|National Theater] in the 1920s, and he was the theater director at the Oslo [Nye Teater|Oslo New Theater] from 1934 to 1935.
Hjalmar Fries was the brother of the actor Harald Schwenzen and screenwriter Per Schwenzen, and the father of the actress Gretelill Fries.

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