{{Short description|Norwegian military officer, aviator, film director and screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Tancred Ibsen | image = Tancibsen.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Tancred Ibsen | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|7|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Gausdal, Norway | death_date = {{death date and age|1978|12|4|1893|7|11|df=y}} | death_place = Oslo, Norway | education = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter, officer, and pilot | spouse = Lillebil Ibsen | parents = Sigurd Ibsen and Bergljot Bjørnson | children = Tancred Ibsen Jr. }} '''Tancred Ibsen''' (11 July 1893 – 4 December 1978) was a Norwegian military officer, aviator, film director and screenwriter.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://nbl.snl.no/Tancred_Ibsen|title =Tancred Ibsen|website=Norsk biografisk leksikon |access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
==Background== Ibsen was the son of Sigurd Ibsen and Bergljot Bjørnson. He was the grandson of both Henrik Ibsen and Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. He married dancer and actress Lillebil Ibsen in 1919, and remained married to her until his death in 1978. His son Tancred Ibsen Jr. (1921–2015) was a Norwegian diplomat.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://nbl.snl.no/Lillebil_Ibsen|title =Lillebil Ibsen|website=Norsk biografisk leksikon|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://snl.no/Tancred_Ibsen_-_diplomat|title =Tancred Ibsen - diplomat|website=Store norske leksikon|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
==Aviation career== In 1917, Tancred Ibsen started pilot training at Kjeller Airport and began his career in the Norwegian 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 the Det Norske Luftfartrederi routes in southern Norway. The activity of ''A/S Aero'' ended, with the company becoming part of the aircraft factory ''A/S Norske Aeroplanfabrik'' in Tønsberg.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.europeanairlines.no/tancred-ibsen-and-as-aero/ |title=Tancred Ibsen and A/S Aero|website= europeanairlines.no |author=Rob Mulder |access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.europeanairlines.no/as-norsk-aeroplanfabrik-1918-1921/ |title =A/S Norsk Aeroplanfabrik (1918-1921)|website=europeanairlines.no|date=June 16, 2010 |access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
==Film career== A 1923 trip to New York and a screening of D.W. Griffith's ''Orphans of the Storm'' inspired Ibsen with the potential of filmmaking. He spent the next two years in Los Angeles, working at Metro Goldwyn Mayer as a handyman, electrician, and finally in the script department.<ref>Nordic National Cinemas, edited by Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soila, page 105</ref>
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,<ref>Nordic National Cinemas, edited by Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soila, page 105</ref> together with Leif Sinding (1895–1985). Ibsen produced conventional melodramas more or less on the model of Hollywood films. In 1940, he returned to active military service against Operation Weserübung but continued to produce films through 1942.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Leif_Sinding |title =Leif Sinding|website=Norsk biografisk leksikon|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
After the war, Ibsen took on the project ''To mistenkelige personer'' (1950), based on a 1933 book by Gunnar Larsen about a real-life 1926 killing. The completed film was banned by the Supreme Court of Norway, based on the privacy rights of one of the figures in the real-life killing, still alive.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Gunnar_Larsen|title =Gunnar Larsen|website=Norsk biografisk leksikon|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
==Second World War== Ibsen was arrested on 17 August 1943 during the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He was imprisoned in Schildberg and then Luckenwalde until the camp was liberated.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Ottosen, Kristian|title=Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940–1945|edition=2nd|year=2004|publisher=Universitetsforlaget|location=Oslo|language=Norwegian|isbn=82-15-00288-9|page=336|editor-link=Kristian Ottosen}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * 1931: ''Den store barnedåpen'' (director) **The first Norwegian talkie<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Ibsen, Tancred | encyclopedia = Store Norske Leksikon | volume = 7| pages = 363| publisher = Kunnskapsforlaget | year = 2005}}</ref> * 1933: ''Men with Brooms'' (writer, director) * 1934: ''Op med hodet'' (writer, director), his wife Lillibel Ibsen starred in this play * 1934: ''Synnøve Solbakken'' (director), based on the novel written by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson * 1935: ''Kanske en gentleman'' (director) * 1935: ''Du har lovet meg en kone'' (writer, director, editor) * 1936: ''Ä vi gifta?'' (director) * 1936: ''Poor Millionaires'' (director) * 1936: ''The Ghost of Bragehus'' (director) * 1937: ''Fant'' (director) * 1937: ''To levende og en død'' (writer, director, editor) * 1939: ''Whalers'' (director) * 1939: ''Gjest Baardsen'' (writer, director) * 1940: ''Tørres Snørtevold'' (director) * 1942: ''The Dangerous Game'' (director) * 1948: ''The Private Apartment'' (writer, director) * 1950: ''To mistenkelige personer'' (writer, director) **Forbidden to be shown in public by the Supreme Court of Norway in 1952, legalized and published in 2007<ref>{{cite web|title =Forbudt film frigjøres for offentligheten: To mistenkelige personer|publisher=Norwegian Film Institute|date =29 January 2007|url=http://www.nfi.no/arkivbibliotek/_nyheter/vis.html?id=2456|accessdate = 20 June 2007 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070205110336/http://www.nfi.no/arkivbibliotek/_nyheter/vis.html?id=2456 |archivedate = 5 February 2007}}</ref> *1951: ''Storfolk og småfolk'' (writer, director) *1952: ''Oslo 1952: The VI Olympic Winter Games'' (director) **Official video of the 1952 Winter Olympics, held in Oslo, Norway<ref>{{Citation|last=Ibsen|first=Tancred|title=Oslo 1952 : official film|date=2017|url=https://library.olympic.org/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/172469/oslo-1952-official-film|publisher=International Olympic Committee. Lausanne|language=Norwegian|access-date=2020-04-04|last2=Committee|first2=International Olympic|last3=Ibsen|first3=Tancred|last4=Committee|first4=International Olympic}}</ref> * 1960: ''Venner'' (director) * 1963: ''The Wild Duck'' (director), written by Henrik Ibsen
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==External links== {{commons category|Tancred Ibsen}} *{{IMDb name|0406591|Tancred Ibsen}}
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