Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born on 14 July 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Erik Bergman, a Lutheran minister and later chaplain to the King of Sweden, and Karin, a nurse who had Walloon ancestors.
14 Facts About Ingmar Bergman
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Ingmar Bergman enrolled at Stockholm University College in 1937, to study art and literature.
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Ingmar Bergman dissolved Persona in 1974 after having been notified by the Swedish Central Bank and subsequently reported the income.
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On 23 March 1976, the special prosecutor Anders Nordenadler dropped the charges against Ingmar Bergman, saying that the alleged crime had no legal basis, saying it would be like bringing "charges against a person who has stolen his own car, thinking it was someone else's".
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In one of the last major interviews with Ingmar Bergman, conducted in 2005 on the island of Faro, Ingmar Bergman said that despite being active during the exile, he had effectively lost eight years of his professional life.
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Ingmar Bergman had hip surgery in October 2006 and was making a difficult recovery.
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Ingmar Bergman died in his sleep at age 89; his body was found at his home on the island of Faro, on 30 July 2007.
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Ingmar Bergman stayed at Helsingborg for three years and then became the director at Gothenburg city theatre from 1946 to 1949.
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Ingmar Bergman became director of the Malmo City Theatre in 1953, and remained for seven years.
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Ingmar Bergman was the director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm from 1960 to 1966, and manager from 1963 to 1966, where he began a long-time collaboration with choreographer Donya Feuer.
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Ingmar Bergman remained active in theatre throughout the 1990s and made his final production on stage with Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2003.
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In 1960 Ingmar Bergman was featured in the cover of TIME, the first foreign-language filmmaker to do so since Leni Riefenstahl in 1936.
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In 1971, Bergman received the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award at the Academy Awards ceremony.
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Ingmar Bergman was ranked at No 36 on Empire magazine's "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005.