Ingmar Bergman’s 60-year career contained classics like Cries & Whispers, The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries and his films won the best foreign film Oscar three times.
Ingmar Bergman, who was born in 1918 in Uppsala, was married five times, with Ingrid von Rosen being his most recent wife, and he fathered nine children.
In his youth Ingmar Bergman used to help a local film projectionist and he went on to train as an actor and director at the University of Stockholm.
Ingmar Bergman became the director of the Helsingborg City Theatre in 1944, and the same year his first film script, Frenzy, was made into a film by Alf Sjoberg. Then in 1946, Ingmar Bergman made his own debut as a director with Crisis, the first of more than 40 films he made in his astonishing career.
