Biography
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....
Known For
Complete Filmography

Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
2024
as Self (archive footage)
The film focuses on the icon of Hollywood’s golden age, Humphrey Bogart, and is framed around his relationships with the five formidable women in his ...

The Trouble With Forgetting
2024
as (archive footage)
To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past fin...

The Rossellinis
2021
as Self (archive footage)
A laid-back journey in search of one of the world’s most fascinating families, observed and examined from within its most intimate relationships, wher...

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the most exotic sex-symbol since Rudolph Valentino; t...

Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
I have a lot of interest and respect for classic cinema. I tried to make a film with at least 20 portraits of classical actresses whose films I'm fami...

Julie Andrews Forever
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Julie Andrews starred in Hollywood productions that have become iconic movies, winning an Oscar for her performance as Mary Poppins, a symbol of the m...

Becoming Cary Grant
2017
as Self (archive footage)
For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, th...

Hitler's Hollywood
2017
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collap...
Viva Ingrid!
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Original newsreels, clips from Roberto Rossellini films starring the actress, and above all, astonishing home movies made largely by Ingrid Bergman he...

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015
as Self (archive footage)
A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most ce...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

The War of the Volcanoes
2012
as Self (archive footage)
In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in New York, Ross...

Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The behind-the-scenes story of how "Casablanca" became an American film classic.

Smash His Camera
2010
as Self (archive footage)
A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of paparazzi.

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

Warner at War
2008
as (archive footage)
Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during World War II.

Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
2008
as Self (Archive Footage)
A documentary analyzing the surrealist elements of the film Spellbound, and the work made by Salvador Dalí in that film.

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

Året var 1955
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1955 - the year when The rip hunter is buried in snow for eight days before his ski pole with a movie ticket is discovered. Ingrid Bergman gets bad re...

Reflections on 'Gaslight'
2003
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary on the 1944 film "Gaslight" starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

As Time Goes By: The Children Remember
2003
as Self (archive footage)
"The Children Remember" is a look at "Casablanca" with Ingrid Bergman's daughter Pia Lindstrom and Humphrey Bogart's son Stephen Bogart.

Heart of the Festival
2002
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
as Self (archive footage)
This Bob Hope Special called “Highlights of a Quarter Century” begins his 26th year with NBC in 1975 (he began with NBC radio in 1937) celebrating 25 ...

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
2001
as Self (archive footage)
This Bob Hope Special called “Highlights of a Quarter Century” begins his 26th year with NBC in 1975 (he began with NBC radio in 1937) celebrating 25 ...

Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life eve...
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two very different personalities amidst the demise of ...

Glorious Technicolor
1998
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

Rossellini Under the Volcano
1998
as Karen (archive footage)
A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."

Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a...

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable p...

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1995
as Self (segment "Salute to Orson Welles") (archive footage)
Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner...

Stjärnbilder
1995
as (archive footage)
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film h...

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1995
as Dr. Constance Petersen (archive footage) (uncredited)
After escaping Russia's communist revolution, Léon Theremin travels to New York, where he pioneers the field of electronic music with his synthesizer....

That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...

Minns ni?
1993
as (archive footage)
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various behind-the-sc...

You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
1992
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the making of the classic film "Casablanca."

Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand ...

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
as Self (archive footage)
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to b...

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...

A Woman Called Golda
1982
as Golda Meir
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre
1981
as Interviewee
An interview with actress Ingrid Bergman at London's National Film Theatre in 1981.

Autumn Sonata
1978
as Charlotte
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte s...

Ersatz
1978
as Ilsa Lund (voice) (archive sound)
An animated Plasticine man enacts favourite scenes from Hollywood classics.

A Matter of Time
1976
as Contessa Sanziani
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a youn...
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
1975
as (archive footage)
A two hour celebration of Bob Hope's 25 years of television shows that features highlights starting with his first special that aired in 1950. Between...

Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Greta Ohlson
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1973
as Mrs. Frankweiler
A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...

Langlois
1970
as Self
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970
as Libby Meredith
A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.

Cactus Flower
1969
as Stephanie Dickinson
Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist J...

Stimulantia
1967
as Mathilde Hartman
Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Mola...

The Human Voice
1966
as A Woman
A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

Tokyo Olympiad
1965
Thanks
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive ...
The Car That Became a Star
1965
as Gerda Millett (archive footage)
This promotional film showcases the automobile whose adventures are chronicled in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964). After the car is filmed in various Eu...

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Gerda Millett
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The nex...

The Visit
1964
as Karla Zachanassian
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning,...

The Visit
1964
Producer
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning,...
Pappa Sandrew
1964
The story of Anders Andersson becoming the film and theatre producer Anders Sandrew (1885-1957) building a modern empire of cinemas and theaters in St...

Hedda Gabler
1962
as Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and na...

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...

Auguste
1961
as Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet ...

Goodbye Again
1961
as Paula Tessier
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her lo...

24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1961
as Clare Lester
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised t...

Startime: The Turn of the Screw
1959
as Governess
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1958
as Gladys Aylward
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys wor...

Indiscreet
1958
as Anna Kalman
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, whil...

Anastasia
1956
as Anna Koreff / Anastasia
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russ...

Elena and Her Men
1956
as Elena Sokorowska
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Me...

Joan of Arc at the Stake
1954
as Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc is being burned alive for heresy. In a kind of dream state, she departs from her body and begins to look back upon her life. She begins th...

Fear
1954
as Irène Wagner
Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose ...

Journey to Italy
1954
as Katherine Joyce
This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Rober...

Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
1953
Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.

We, the Women
1953
as Ingrid (segment "Ingrid Bergman")
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

The Chicken
1953
as Self
Ingrid Bergman notices that her roses have been destroyed. At first she suspects it is her dogs or her children, but later on notices a chicken walkin...

A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
1953
as Self
Commissioned by a Swedish newspaper, this news-reel like short on the life of the famous Swedish actress is a kind of ‘at home with Ingrid Bergman’ re...

Europe '51
1952
as Irene Girard
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in ...

Santa Brigida
1951
as Herself
Approximately ten minutes of 35mm footage survives at the Svenska Filmminstitutet from a documentary (probably not completed or even edited) shot in t...

Stromboli
1950
as Karin
After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more deman...

Under Capricorn
1949
as Lady Henrietta Flusky
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to hel...

Joan of Arc
1948
as Joan of Arc
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...

Arch of Triumph
1948
as Joan Madou
In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is...

Notorious
1946
as Alicia Huberman
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war c...

The Bells of St. Mary's
1945
as Sister Mary Benedict
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to...

Saratoga Trunk
1945
as Clio Dulaine
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostra...

Spellbound
1945
as Dr. Constance Petersen
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis...

Breakdowns of 1944
1944
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.

Gaslight
1944
as Paula Alquist
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Swedes in America
1943
as Herself
1943 documentary with Ingrid Bergman.

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Maria
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side t...

Casablanca
1943
as Ilsa Lund
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
as Ivy Peterson
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...

Adam Had Four Sons
1941
as Emilie Gallatin
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Em...

Rage in Heaven
1941
as Stella Bergen
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.

June Night
1940
as Kerstin Norbäck
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.

Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939
as Anita Hoffman
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music ...

Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test
1939
as Self
Ingrid Bergman's screen test for the film Intermezzo by Gregory Ratoff.

Only One Night
1939
as Eva Beckman
Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von Brede. The colonel knows and employs Valdemar as his stab...

A Woman's Face
1938
as Anna Holm
A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She le...

The Four Companions
1938
as Marianne Kruge
Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the ...

Dollar
1938
as Julia Balzar
Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but sti...

Cat Across the Road
1937
as Woman in mirror
An actress is happy when she is finally contacted by a famous director, but the director is more interested in her cat.

Intermezzo
1936
as Anita Hoffman
An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

On the Sunny Side
1936
as Eva Bergh
Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. ...

Walpurgis Night
1935
as Lena Bergström
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and wh...

Swedenhielms
1935
as Astrid
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also li...

Ocean Breakers
1935
as Karin Ingman
Daniel has been forced by his father to become a priest. After graduating, he comes to a parish in Hälsingland. During one stormy night, he seduces a ...

The Count of the Old Town
1935
as Elsa Edlund
A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.

National match
1932
as Girl Waiting in Line (uncredited)
Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a b...