Haakon Særsten
- Actor
The Norwegian resistance-man Haakon Særsten, (1888-1969) was born in Bømlo, Hordaland County. As a young man, he was like so many others in his generation, a time in America.
Back in Norway, he worked on a boat that trafficked the fjords nearby, from 1937 he was employed as a postman at a small place called Urangsvåg. When the war came in 1940, he became involved in the resistance, and in the following year he and his wife had to flee to England. With this background he was offered a role in the film Suicide Mission (1954). Died in a nursing home, near 81 years.