Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

writer, director, actor

Ingmar Bergman was born on Jul 14, 1918 in Sweden. Ingmar Bergman's big-screen debut came with Torment directed by Alf Sjöberg in 1944, strarring Voice on the Radio (voice, uncredited). Ingmar Bergman is known for Saraband directed by Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann stars as Marianne and Erland Josephson as Johan. Ingmar Bergman has got 86 awards and 64 nominations so far. The most recent award Ingmar Bergman achieved is Sant Jordi Awards. The upcoming new movie Ingmar Bergman plays is Den obesegrade kvinnligheten which will be released on Oct 13, 2018.

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, Les meilleures intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Söndagsbarn (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Entretiens privés (1996) is the trilogy closed. Here, as in 'Den Goda Viljan' Pernilla August play his mother. Note that all three movies are not always full true biographical stories. He began his career early with a puppet theatre which he, his sister and their friends played with. But he was the manager. Strictly professional he begun writing in 1941. He had written a play called 'Kaspers död' (A.K.A. 'Kaspers Death') which was produced the same year. It became his entrance into the movie business as Stina Bergman (not a close relative), from the company S.F. (Swedish Filmindustry), had seen the play and thought that there must be some dramatic talent in young Ingmar. His first job was to save other more famous writers' poor scripts. Under one of that script-saving works he remembered that he had written a novel about his last year as a student. He took the novel, did the save-poor-script job first, then wrote a screenplay on his own novel. When he went back to S.F., he delivered two scripts rather than one. The script was Tourments (1944) and was the fist Bergman screenplay that was put into film (by Alf Sjöberg). It was also in that movie Bergman did his first professional film-director job. Because Alf Sjöberg was busy, Bergman got the order to shoot the last sequence of the film. Ingmar Bergman is the father of Daniel Bergman, director, and Mats Bergman, actor at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater. Ingmar Bergman was also C.E.O. of the same theatre between 1963-1966, where he hired almost every professional actor in Sweden. In 1976 he had a famous tax problem. Bergman had trusted other people to advise him on his finances, but it turned out to be very bad advice. Bergman had to leave the country immediately, and so he went to Germany. A few years later he returned to Sweden and made his last theatrical film Fanny et Alexandre (1982). In later life he retired from movie directing, but still wrote scripts for film and T.V. and directed plays at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre for many years. He died peacefully in his sleep on July 30, 2007.

  • Birthday

    Jul 14, 1918
  • Place of Birth

    Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Known For

Awards

86 wins & 64 nominations

Sant Jordi Awards
2006
Saraband (2003)
Winner - Special Award
1962
Best Film of the Year (Mejor Película del Año)
Winner - Sant Jordi
1962
Best Foreign Director (Mejor Director Extranjero)
Winner - Sant Jordi
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
2005
Saraband (2003)
Winner - Special Condor
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