Tancred Ibsen | |
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 Tancred Ibsen | |
| Born | (1893-07-11)11 July 1893 Gausdal, Norway |
| Died | 4 December 1978(1978-12-04) (aged 85) Oslo, Norway |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, officer, and pilot |
| Spouse | Lillebil Ibsen |
| Children | Tancred Ibsen Jr. |
| Parent(s) | Sigurd Ibsen andBergljot Bjørnson |
Tancred Ibsen (11 July 1893 – 4 December 1978) was aNorwegianmilitary officer,aviator,film director andscreenwriter.[1]
Ibsen was the son ofSigurd Ibsen andBergljot Bjørnson. He was the grandson of bothHenrik Ibsen and Nobel laureateBjørnstjerne Bjørnson. He married dancer and actressLillebil Ibsen in 1919, and remained married to her until his death in 1978. His sonTancred Ibsen Jr. (1921–2015) was a Norwegian diplomat.[2][3]
In 1917, Tancred Ibsen started pilot training atKjeller Airport and began his career in theNorwegian Army Air Service. He started the first civilian active airplane company,A/S Aero in 1920, financed by his uncle, businessman Einar Bjørnson, and two shipowners. The company successfully operated demonstration, advertising, and limited mail flights with Ibsen as the head pilot. The company also chartered airplanes to theDet Norske Luftfartrederi routes in southern Norway. The activity ofA/S Aero ended, with the company becoming part of the aircraft factoryA/S Norske Aeroplanfabrik inTønsberg.[4][5]
A 1923 trip to New York and a screening ofD.W. Griffith'sOrphans of the Storm inspired Ibsen with the potential of filmmaking. He spent the next two years in Los Angeles, working atMetro Goldwyn Mayer as a handyman, electrician, and finally in the script department.[6]
Ibsen's return to Norway and directoral debut in 1931 was Norway's first feature-length sound film,Den store barnedåpen. Through the 1930s he would "dominate" the nation's film industry,[7] together withLeif Sinding (1895–1985). Ibsen produced conventional melodramas more or less on the model of Hollywood films. In 1940, he returned to active military service againstOperation Weserübung but continued to produce films through 1942.[8]
After the war, Ibsen took on the projectTo mistenkelige personer (1950), based on a 1933 book byGunnar Larsen about a real-life 1926 killing. The completed film was banned by theSupreme Court of Norway, based on the privacy rights of one of the figures in the real-life killing, still alive.[9]
Ibsen was arrested on 17 August 1943 during theOccupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He wasimprisoned inSchildberg and thenLuckenwalde until thecamp was liberated.[10]
Henrik Ibsen's family | ||
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| Ancestors and birth relatives | GrandparentsHenrich Ibsen,Johanne Plesner,Johan Andreas Altenburg,Hedevig Paus,Ole Paus (step grandfather), parentsKnud Ibsen andMarichen Altenburg, sisterHedvig Ibsen, unclesChristian Cornelius Paus,Henrik Johan Paus,Christopher Blom Paus, great-auntKristine Cathrine Ploug (née Altenburg), first cousinOle Paus, nephewCarl Stousland, first cousin once removedChristopher de Paus, great-grandfatherCornelius Paus |  |
| Wife, family-in-law and issue | WifeSuzannah Ibsen (née Thoresen), step mother-in-lawMagdalene Thoresen, sonSigurd Ibsen, daughter-in-lawBergliot Ibsen (née Bjørnson), grandsonTancred Ibsen, granddaughterIrene Ibsen Bille (née Ibsen), grandson's wifeLillebil Ibsen (née Krohn), great-grandsonsTancred Ibsen Jr. andJoen Bille, great-great-granddaughtersNora Ibsen andBeate Bille | |
See also:Ibsen family –Paus family | ||
