Ingmar Bergman Bio (Biography)
Real name:
Ernst Ingmar Bergman
Date of birth:
July 14. 1918
Place of birth:
Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
Astrology Sign:
Cancer
Height:
5' 10½" (1.79 m)
Residence:
Faro Island
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Biography
Ingmar Bergman is a director of film and television. He has produced many films over a long career and is known for writing and directing existentialist films dealing with mortality and religion. Several of his movies have been nominated for Academy Awards and he has won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film three times.
Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden in the year 1918. His birthday is the 14th of July. Ingmar Bergman grew up in a strict religious family, which would later be a key influence on his work as he realized he was an atheist. When Ingmar Bergman was a child he acted as the "manager" of a puppet theatre that he and his sister and friends played with. Ingmar Bergman's first real job was as a writer in charge of repairing more famous writers' bad screenplays. He got this job at the company Swedish Filmindustry in 1941, after being recognized for a play he had written called "Kasper's Death". Rewriting an earlier novel into a screenplay, he got Swedish Filmindustry to produce it as the 1944 film "Hets".
Ingmar Bergman went on to become a prolific writer / director. His best known films include "Winter Light", "Wild Strawberries", "Face to Face", "Autumn Sonata", "Fanny and Alexander", "Cries and Whispers" and "Through a Glass Darkly". The movies directed by Ingmar Bergman that have received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film are "The Virgin Spring", "Through a Glass Darkly" and "Fanny and Alexander". Ingmar Bergman's film career has spanned over sixty years. Ingmar Bergman has been married five times and has had several children who have become involved in the film industry as actors, writers or directors.
As of early 2007 Ingmar Bergman continues to write and direct for film and television. The TV film "Saraband" was released in 2003 and "Bergmanova Sonata" was released in 2005.
He died at his home on Faro Island on July 30. Relatives said he died peacefully in his sleep.
Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden in the year 1918. His birthday is the 14th of July. Ingmar Bergman grew up in a strict religious family, which would later be a key influence on his work as he realized he was an atheist. When Ingmar Bergman was a child he acted as the "manager" of a puppet theatre that he and his sister and friends played with. Ingmar Bergman's first real job was as a writer in charge of repairing more famous writers' bad screenplays. He got this job at the company Swedish Filmindustry in 1941, after being recognized for a play he had written called "Kasper's Death". Rewriting an earlier novel into a screenplay, he got Swedish Filmindustry to produce it as the 1944 film "Hets".
Ingmar Bergman went on to become a prolific writer / director. His best known films include "Winter Light", "Wild Strawberries", "Face to Face", "Autumn Sonata", "Fanny and Alexander", "Cries and Whispers" and "Through a Glass Darkly". The movies directed by Ingmar Bergman that have received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film are "The Virgin Spring", "Through a Glass Darkly" and "Fanny and Alexander". Ingmar Bergman's film career has spanned over sixty years. Ingmar Bergman has been married five times and has had several children who have become involved in the film industry as actors, writers or directors.
As of early 2007 Ingmar Bergman continues to write and direct for film and television. The TV film "Saraband" was released in 2003 and "Bergmanova Sonata" was released in 2005.
He died at his home on Faro Island on July 30. Relatives said he died peacefully in his sleep.