Ingrid Bergman
Born
August 29, 1915
Died
August 29, 1982 (67 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Stockholm, Sweden
Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 – August 29, 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.
Sweden and the War
Self (archive footage) · (5 episodes)
2025
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
Self (archive footage)
2024
The Trouble With Forgetting
(archive footage)
2024
The Rossellinis
Self (archive footage)
2021
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020
Julie Andrews Forever
Self (archive footage)
2019
Becoming Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
2017
Hitler's Hollywood
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2017
Viva Ingrid!
Self (archive footage)
2015
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2015
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
2014
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2013
The War of the Volcanoes
Self (archive footage)
2012
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Self (archive footage)
2012
Smash His Camera
Self (archive footage)
2010
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Self (archive footage)
2009
Warner at War
(archive footage)
2008
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
Self (Archive Footage)
2008
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Self (archive footage)
2006
Året var 1955
Self (archive footage)
2005
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
Self (archive footage)
2003
As Time Goes By: The Children Remember
Self (archive footage)
2003
Un film et son époque
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2003
Heart of the Festival
2002
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
2001
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
Self (archive footage)
2001
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Self (archive footage)
2000
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1999
Glorious Technicolor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Karen (archive footage)
1998
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
1997
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self (archive footage)
1996
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Self (segment "Salute to Orson Welles") (archive footage)
1995
Stjärnbilder
(archive footage)
1995
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Dr. Constance Petersen (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
1994
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
1993
Minns ni?
(archive footage)
1993
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Self (archive footage)
1993
You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
Self (archive footage)
1992
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
1990
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self (archive footage)
1988
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Self (archive footage)
1988
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "Notorious") (archive footage)
1982
A Woman Called Golda
Golda Meir
1982
A Woman Called Golda
Golda Meir · (2 episodes)
1982
Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre
Interviewee
1981
Autumn Sonata
Charlotte
1978
Ersatz
Ilsa Lund (voice) (archive sound)
1978
A Matter of Time
Contessa Sanziani
1976
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
(archive footage)
1975
Apostrophes
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Murder on the Orient Express
Greta Ohlson
1974
Spécial cinéma
Self · (1 episode)
1974
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Mrs. Frankweiler
1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · (1 episode)
1973
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
1972
Langlois
Self
1970
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Libby Meredith
1970
Cactus Flower
Stephanie Dickinson
1969
Omnibus
Self · (1 episode)
1967
Stimulantia
Mathilde Hartman
1967
ABC Stage 67
A Woman · (1 episode)
1966
The Human Voice
A Woman
1966
Dim Dam Dom
Self · (1 episode)
1965
The Car That Became a Star
Gerda Millett (archive footage)
1965
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Gerda Millett
1964
The Visit
Karla Zachanassian
1964
Pappa Sandrew
1964
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
1962
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self (uncredited)
1961
Auguste
Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1961
Goodbye Again
Paula Tessier
1961
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Clare Lester
1961
Startime: The Turn of the Screw
Governess
1959
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Gladys Aylward
1958
Small World
Self · (1 episode)
1958
Indiscreet
Anna Kalman
1958
Anastasia
Anna Koreff / Anastasia
1956
Elena and Her Men
Elena Sokorowska
1956
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Recipient · (1 episode)
1956
The Steve Allen Show
Self - appearing on film · (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
1956
Cinépanorama
Self · (2 episodes)
1956
Joan of Arc at the Stake
Joan of Arc
1954
Fear
Irène Wagner
1954
Journey to Italy
Katherine Joyce
1954
Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
1953
We, the Women
Ingrid (segment "Ingrid Bergman")
1953
The Chicken
Self
1953
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Self
1953
The Oscars
Self · (4 episodes)
1953
Europe '51
Irene Girard
1952
Santa Brigida
Herself
1951
Star Time
Self · (1 episode)
1950
Stromboli
Karin
1950
Under Capricorn
Lady Henrietta Flusky
1949
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
1948
Arch of Triumph
Joan Madou
1948
Bambi-Verleihung
Self (archive footage) · (4 episodes)
1948
Notorious
Alicia Huberman
1946
The Bells of St. Mary's
Sister Mary Benedict
1945
Saratoga Trunk
Clio Dulaine
1945
Spellbound
Dr. Constance Petersen
1945
Breakdowns of 1944
Self
1944
Gaslight
Paula Alquist
1944
Swedes in America
Herself
1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Maria
1943
Casablanca
Ilsa Lund
1943
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ivy Peterson
1941
Adam Had Four Sons
Emilie Gallatin
1941
Rage in Heaven
Stella Bergen
1941
June Night
Kerstin Norbäck
1940
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Anita Hoffman
1939
Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test
Self
1939
Only One Night
Eva Beckman
1939
A Woman's Face
Anna Holm
1938
The Four Companions
Marianne Kruge
1938
Dollar
Julia Balzar
1938
Cat Across the Road
Woman in mirror
1937
Intermezzo
Anita Hoffman
1936
On the Sunny Side
Eva Bergh
1936
Walpurgis Night
Lena Bergström
1935
Swedenhielms
Astrid
1935
Ocean Breakers
Karin Ingman
1935
The Count of the Old Town
Elsa Edlund
1935
National match
Girl Waiting in Line (uncredited)
1932