Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays. With a career spanning five decades, she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history.
According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, upon her arrival in the U.S. Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress. David O. Selznick once called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four).
Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund, her most famous role, opposite Humphrey Bogart. Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramas For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945), with Gregory Peck, Notorious (1946), opposite Cary Grant and Under Capricorn (1949), alongside Joseph Cotten.
In 1950, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, released after the revelation she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini's Europa '51 and Journey to Italy (1954), now critically acclaimed, the former of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She had a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in Anastasia (1956), winning her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Soon after, she co-starred with Grant in the romance Indiscreet (1958). In 1969, she starred in the acclaimed and highly successful film Cactus Flower. In later years, Bergman won her third Academy Award, this one for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). In 1978, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's (no relation) Swedish Autumn Sonata receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination. Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.
In her final role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the television miniseries A Woman Called Golda (1982) for which she posthumously won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering from breast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday.
Acted in
The Trouble With Forgetting
2024
as (archive footage)
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Rossellinis
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Becoming Cary Grant
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Viva Ingrid!
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015
as Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Talking Pictures
2013
as Self (archive footage)
The War of the Volcanoes
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Smash His Camera
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Warner at War
2008
as (archive footage)
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
2008
as Self (Archive Footage)
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
2003
as Self (archive footage)
As Time Goes By: The Children Remember
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Un film et son époque
2003
as Self (archive footage)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
as Self (archive footage)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Julie Andrews Forever
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Glorious Technicolor
1998
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rossellini Under the Volcano
1998
as Karen (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1995
as Self (segment "Salute to Orson Welles") (archive footage)
Stjärnbilder
1995
as (archive footage)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1995
as Dr. Constance Petersen (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Minns ni?
1993
as (archive footage)
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993
as Self (archive footage)
You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
1992
as Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
A Woman Called Golda
1982
as Golda Meir
Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre
1981
as Interviewee
Autumn Sonata
1978
as Charlotte Andergast
Ersatz
1978
as Ilsa Lund (voice) (archive sound)
The Making of Autumn Sonata
1978
as Self
A Matter of Time
1976
as Contessa Sanziani
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Greta Ohlson
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1973
as Mrs. Frankweiler
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
Langlois
1970
as Self
A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970
as Libby Meredith
Cactus Flower
1969
as Stephanie Dickinson
Stimulantia
1967
as Mathilde Hartman
ABC Stage 67
1966
as A Woman
The Human Voice
1966
as A Woman
Dim Dam Dom
1965
as Self
The Love Goddesses
1965
as (archive footage)
The Car That Became a Star
1965
as Gerda Millett (archiveFootage)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Gerda Millett
The Visit
1964
as Karla Zachanassian
Pappa Sandrew
1964
Hedda Gabler
1962
as Hedda Gabler
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self (uncredited)
Auguste
1961
as Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Goodbye Again
1961
as Paula Tessier
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961
as Clare Lester
Startime: The Turn of the Screw
1959
as Governess
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1958
as Gladys Aylward
Indiscreet
1958
as Anna Kalman
Anastasia
1956
as Anna Koreff / Anastasia
Elena and Her Men
1956
as Elena Sokorowska
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Recipient
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - appearing on film
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joan of Arc at the Stake
1954
as Joan of Arc
Fear
1954
as Irène Wagner
Journey to Italy
1954
as Katherine Joyce
Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
1953
We, the Women
1953
as Ingrid (segment "Ingrid Bergman")
The Chicken
1953
as Self
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
1953
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Europe '51
1952
as Irene Girard
Santa Brigida
1951
as Herself
Star Time
1950
as Self
Stromboli
1950
as Karin
Under Capricorn
1949
as Lady Henrietta Flusky
Joan of Arc
1948
as Joan of Arc
Arch of Triumph
1948
as Joan Madou
Bambi Awards
1948
as Self (archive footage)
Notorious
1946
as Alicia Huberman
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945
as Sister Mary Benedict
Saratoga Trunk
1945
as Clio Dulaine
Spellbound
1945
as Dr. Constance Petersen
Motion Picture Industry Red Cross War Fund Week Trailer
1945
as Herself
Breakdowns of 1944
1944
as Self
Gaslight
1944
as Paula Alquist
Swedes in America
1943
as Herself
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Maria
Casablanca
1943
as Ilsa Lund
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
as Ivy Peterson
Adam Had Four Sons
1941
as Emilie Gallatin
Rage in Heaven
1941
as Stella Bergen
June Night
1940
as Kerstin Norbäck
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939
as Anita Hoffman
Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test
1939
as Self
Only One Night
1939
as Eva Beckman
A Woman's Face
1938
as Anna Holm
The Four Companions
1938
as Marianne Kruge
Dollar
1938
as Julia Balzar
Cat Across the Road
1937
as Woman in mirror
Intermezzo
1936
as Anita Hoffman
On the Sunny Side
1936
as Eva Bergh
Walpurgis Night
1935
as Lena Bergström
Swedenhielms
1935
as Astrid
Ocean Breakers
1935
as Karin Ingman
The Count of the Old Town
1935
as Elsa Edlund
National match
1932
as Girl Waiting in Line (uncredited)