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{{short description|Norwegian comedian}}
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{{Infobox person
|name        = Hauk Aabel
|image       = Hauk Aabel OB.F13642.jpg
|caption     =
|birth_date   = 21 April 1869<ref name=petersen33/>
|birth_place    = [[Førde]], [[Norway]]<ref name=petersen33/>
|death_date   = {{death date and age|1961|12|12|1869|4|21|df=yes}}
|death_place  = [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]
|years_active =
|spouse       = [[Svanhild Johannessen]]
|children    = [[Per Aabel]], [[Andreas Aabel]]
}}
'''Hauk Erlendssøn Aabel''' (21 April 1869 – 12 December 1961) was a popular [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[comedian]] and actor in Norwegian and [[Sweden|Swedish]] silent [[film]].{{cn|date=December 2022}}
==Career==
Aabel made his début on stage on 11 October 1897 at the [[Christiania Theatre]] in [[Oslo]], and was a prominent [[actor]] in the Norwegian theatre.<ref name=petersen33>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Petersen |first=Alf |editor= |encyclopedia=Den norske hærs vernepliktige officerer: 1864-1933  |title=Aabel, Hauk Erlandsson |url=http://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/8290475385ecf7122d24441d8430463e?index=3 |edition= |year=1936 |publisher=A. M. Hanche |volume= |location=Oslo |id= |isbn= |doi= |page=33 |quote= |language=Norwegian }}</ref> In 1917, he began appearing in silent films in Sweden. He then returned to Norway in 1927, where he worked in many films, including several after the advent of sound. He made his last film in 1939, aged 72.
Hauk Aabel was a [[Military reserve force|reserve officer]] ({{langx|no|vernepliktig officer}}) in the [[Norwegian Army]], with the rank of First Lieutenant.<ref name=petersen33/>
He was the informant who provided sounding material to the pioneering linguistic study of [[Einar Haugen|Haugen]] and Joos in 1952, called Tone and Intonation in East Norwegian.
His son [[Per Aabel]] was also a popular comic actor in Norwegian films, and his son [[Andreas Aabel]] was an actor and translator. Aabel died in 1961.
== Works ==
* ''Hauk Aabel'' av Erling Alm-Vik i ''Norske scenekunstnere'' 1918
* ''Moro var det lell! – Mine første tyve år på scenen'' 1935
* ''Gode gamle dager'' 1949
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[[Category:1869 births]]
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[[Category:People from Førde]]
[[Category:Norwegian male comedians]]
[[Category:Norwegian male stage actors]]
[[Category:Norwegian male film actors]]
[[Category:Norwegian male silent film actors]]
[[Category:20th-century Norwegian male actors]]
[[Category:Norwegian Army personnel]]
[[Category:19th-century Norwegian male actors]]