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Son of a Priest: Ingmar Bergman Trivia  
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Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish stage and film director. Ingmar Bergman found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his indelible explorations of the human condition. Here's what I know about the newly deceased film master; what do you know?

	Son of a priest.
	Began his career early with a puppet theatre which he, his sister and their friends played with.
	Strictly professional he began writing in 1941.
	His first job was to save other, more famous, writers' poor scripts.
	Ingmar Bergman was CEO of the same theatre between 1963-66, where he hired almost every professional actor in Sweden.
	1976 he had a famous tax problem. He left the country immediately and went to Germany. In 1982 he went back to Sweden and made his last movie 'Fanny and Alexander'.
	The director got around, he is the father of (at least) nine children.
	Like Fellini's "Fellinesque", he inspired the word "Bergmanesque".

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Comments: I find it amazing that he died on the same day as Michaelangelo Antonioni. Two film greats gone at the same time! :-( Comment by: buccicone.2 I find it amazing that he died on the same day as Michaelangelo Antonioni. Two film greats gone at the same time! :-( Comment by: buccicone.2