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Also Known As	Ernst Ingmar Bergman
Born	July 14, 1918 • Uppsala • Sweden
Died	July 30, 2007 (aged 89) • Sweden
Awards And Honors	Academy Award • Praemium Imperiale (1991) • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1971)
Notable Works	“Cries & Whispers” • “Face to Face” • “Fanny and Alexander” • “Saraband” • “Scenes from a Marriage” • “The Seventh Seal” • “Through a Glass Darkly” • “Wild Strawberries” • “Winter Light”

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Max von Sydow as Antonius Block and Bengt Ekerot as Death play chess outdoors in a scene from Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal, with a wagon in the background.

Ingrid Thulin and Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries

Max von Sydow and Birgitta Valberg in a dramatic outdoor scene from The Virgin Spring, with Valberg holding and kissing a young woman's face as von Sydow looks on.

Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in character, standing close together by a lit candle, in a scene from Cries and Whispers (1972) directed by Ingmar Bergman.

Silhouetted figures holding hands in a line across a hilltop, performing the dance of death in the final scene of Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal.

Max von Sydow and Harriet Andersson in Through a Glass Darkly

Max von Sydow and Birgitta Pettersson in The Virgin Spring

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