Ingmar Bergman
Born: 1918-07-14 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
Died: 2007-07-30
Known For: Directing
Biography
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul." Bergman directed more than 60 films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television screenings, most of which he also wrote. Most of his films were set in Sweden, and many films from 1961 onward were filmed on the island of Fårö. He also had a theatrical career that ran in parallel with his film career. It included periods as Leading Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and of the Residenztheater in Munich. He directed more than 170 plays. He forged a creative partnership with his cinematographers Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvist. Among his company of actors were Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom and Max von Sydow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ingmar Bergman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
- National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona ... (Original Story)
- Marie Göranzon - När rampljuset slocknar as Self (archive footage)
- Christina Schollin - sista föreställningen as Self (archive footage)
2025
- Faithless ... (Characters)
- Being Bo Widerberg as Self (archive footage)
- Året var 1976 as Self (archive footage)
- Fanny och Alexander på Galeasen ... (Original Film Writer)
- Laterna Magica ... (Writer)
2024
- Året var 1975 as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Scenes from a Marriage ... (Original Series Creator)
- Confidential Conversations ... (Short Story)
2020
- Short Cuts: Cries and Whispers ... (Original Film Writer)
2019
- Persona ... (Original Film Writer)
2018
- Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self (archive footage)
- Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip. as Self
- Searching for Ingmar Bergman as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- The Undefeated Femininity
- The Memory of Ingmar Bergman as Himself
- Ingmar Bergman - Herr der Dämonen as Self (archive)
- Persona: The Film That Saved Ingmar Bergman as Self (archive footage)
- Feature 136 as Himself (archival footage)
2017
2016
- Sven-Bertil as Self (archive footage)
- Ingmar Bergman Through the Choreographer's Eye ... (Writer)
2015
- A Spiritual Matter ... (Writer)
2013
- Trespassing Bergman as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Bergman's Video as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Liv & Ingmar as Self (archive footage)
- Palme as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Viaggio in Bergmania as Self (archive footage)
2010
- … But Film Is My Mistress as Self
2009
- Images from the Playground as Self
- Hollywood sul Tevere
- Bergman 101
- Bergmans Hushållerska as Self (Archive Footage)
2008
- Palermo Shooting ... (In Memory Of)
2007
- The Ghost Sonata ... (Director)
- Året var 1957 as Self (archive footage)
- Döden, motljuset och groggen
2006
- Bergman Island as Self - Filmmaker
- Filmmakers in Action as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Bergman's Sonata ... (Writer)
2004
- Ingmar Bergman Complete as Self - Filmmaker
- Shame: The Search for Humanity
- Ingmar Bergman Bids Farewell to Film as Self
- The Search for Sanity as Self
- Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Saraband ... (Director)
- Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband) as Self
2002
- Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)
- Ingmar Bergman: Intermezzo as Himself
2001
- Filmstaden
- An Image Maker as Himself
2000
- Faithless ... (Writer)
- Light Keeps Me Company as Self
- Federico Fellini's Autobiography as Self (archive footage)
- Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love
- The Image Makers ... (Director)
1998
- In the Presence of a Clown as Mental patient
- Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work as Self
1997
- Bergmans röst as Himself
- I sällskap med en clown as Self
1996
- Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- Private Confessions ... (Writer)
- Harald & Harald ... (Director)
1995
- The Last Gasp as Narrator (voice)
1994
- Unishe April ... (Original Concept)
1993
- The Bacchae ... (Director)
1992
- Madame de Sade ... (Writer)
- The Best Intentions ... (Writer)
- Sunday's Children ... (Writer)
- Inför Markisinnan de Sade
1991
- The Best Intentions ... (Writer)
1990
- New York City Opera: A Little Night Music ... (Original Story)
1989
- Ingmar Bergman in Iceland as Self
1988
1987
- Gotska Sandön ... (Producer)
1986
- Karin's Face as Self
- The Blessed Ones ... (Director)
- Introducing 'Scenes from a Marriage'
1985
- Dom Juan ... (Director)
1984
- Fanny and Alexander ... (Director)
- After the Rehearsal ... (Writer)
- The Making of Fanny and Alexander as Self
1983
- The School of Wives ... (Director)
1982
- Fanny and Alexander ... (Director)
1981
- The Guldbagge Awards as Self - Best Director winner
- Intervju med Ingmar Bergman
- Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
- Sally and Freedom ... (Producer)
1980
- From the Life of the Marionettes ... (Director)
1979
- Fårö Document 1979 as Ingmar Bergman
- A Look at Liv as Self
- Min älskade ... (Producer)
- Det hender ikke meg as Self
1978
- Autumn Sonata ... (Screenplay)
- Ingmar Bergman at 60 as Interviewee
- Rätt ut i luften ... (Producer)
- The Making of Autumn Sonata as Self
1977
1976
- Face to Face ... (Director)
- Confessions of a Fool ... (Producer)
- Face to Face ... (Director)
- The Dance of the Damned Women ... (Director)
- Three Scenes with Ingmar Bergman
1975
- The Magic Flute as Man in Audience (uncredited)
- Silence! Cameras! The Magic Flute! as Self
1974
- Scenes from a Marriage as Voice of the Press Photographer (uncredited)
- The Misanthrope ... (Director)
- The Best Musical in the World: Ingmar Bergman on 'The Magic Flute' as Self
1973
- Scenes from a Marriage as Press photographer (uncredited)
- The Lie ... (Writer)
- Foto: Sven Nykvist as Self
1972
- Cries and Whispers as Narrator (voice)
- Ingmar Bergman as Self
1971
- The Touch ... (Director)
1970
- Play for Today ... (Writer)
- The Lie ... (Writer)
- The Lie ... (Writer)
- Fårö Document as Self - Reporter (uncredited)
1969
- The Passion of Anna as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Rite as Priest
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Hour of the Wolf ... (Director)
- Shame ... (Director)
- An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman as Self
1967
- Daniel as Self
- Stimulantia as Self
1966
- Persona ... (Screenplay)
1965
- Studio III - Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft as Self
- Don Juan ... (Director)
1964
- All These Women ... (Screenplay)
- Dance Around the Guldbaggen as Self
1963
- Winter Light ... (Director)
- The Silence ... (Director)
- Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie as Self
- Skäggen
- Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie as Self
- A Dream Play ... (Director)
- Wood Painting ... (Writer)
1962
- The City ... (Writer)
1961
- Through a Glass Darkly ... (Screenplay)
- The Pleasure Garden ... (Writer)
1960
- The Virgin Spring ... (Director)
- The Devil's Eye ... (Director)
- The Storm ... (Director)
1958
- The Magician ... (Writer)
- Rabies ... (Director)
- Brink of Life ... (Director)
- The Venetian ... (Director)
1957
- The Seventh Seal ... (Screenplay)
- Wild Strawberries ... (Screenplay)
- Behind the Scenes of Wild Strawberries ... (Director)
- Mr. Sleeman Is Coming ... (Director)
- The Minister of Uddarbo ... (Additional Writing)
- Night Light ... (Scenario Writer)
1956
- Last Pair Out ... (Screenplay)
1955
- Smiles of a Summer Night ... (Screenplay)
- Dreams as Man with a poodle at the hotel
1954
1953
- Summer with Monika ... (Director)
- Sawdust and Tinsel ... (Writer)
1952
- Waiting Women as Man in the Stairs at the Gynecologist's (uncredited)
1951
- Summer Interlude ... (Director)
- Divorced ... (Screenplay)
1950
- This Can't Happen Here ... (Director)
- To Joy as Expecting Father at the Maternity Ward (uncredited)
- While the City Sleeps ... (Screenplay)
1948
- Bambi as Self
- Music in Darkness as A Train Passenger Reading a Newspaper (uncredited)
- Port of Call ... (Director)
- Eva ... (Screenplay)
1947
- A Ship to India as Man in Beret at Fairground (uncredited)
- Woman Without a Face ... (Writer)
1946
- Crisis ... (Director)
- It Rains on Our Love ... (Screenplay)