Tancred Ibsen

Infobox Person
name = Tancred Ibsen


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birth_date = 11 July, 1893
birth_place = Gausdal, Norway
death_date = death date and age|1978|12|4|1893|7|11|df=y
death_place = Oslo, Norway
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occupation = Film director, screenwriter, officer, and pilot
spouse = Lillebil Ibsen
parents = Sigurd Ibsen and Bergljot Ibsen
children = Tancred Ibsen

Tancred Ibsen (born 11 July, 1893, died 4 December, 1978) was a Norwegian officer, pilot, film director and screenwriter. He was the son of Sigurd Ibsen, and the grandson of Henrik Ibsen, and Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. He was married to Lillebil Ibsen.

Aviation career

In 1917, Tancred Ibsen started his career in the Army at the "Hærens Flyvevåpen" (the Army’s Air Force) and started the training for pilot at Kjeller Airport. Not content with his military career, 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 successly operated demonstration, advertising, and limited mail flights with Tancred Ibsen as the head pilot. The company also chartered airplanes to the Det Norske Luftfartrederi routes in southern Norway. Tancred Ibsen soon got tired of his career as a pilot, and the activity of "A/S Aero" ended, with the company becoming part of the aircraft factory in Tønsberg, "A/S Norske Aeroplanfabrik". When that company later went broke, it turned out that A/S Aero was never formally registered as a limited company, but as a personal company of Tancred Ibsen. This turned out to be a potential personal disaster, since the debt of the factory was regarded as a personal debt. Ibsen managed, however, to get to a favourable settlement.

Selected filmography

*"Den store barnedåpen" (1931) — director
**The first Norwegian talkie [cite encyclopedia | title = Ibsen, Tancred | encyclopedia = Store Norske Leksikon | volume = 7 | pages = 363 | publisher = Kunnskapsforlaget | date = 2005]
*"Opp med hodet" (1933) — writer, director, editor, producer
*"Du har lovet meg en kone" (1935) — writer, director, editor
*"Fant" (1937) — director
*"To levende og en død" (1937) — writer, director, editor
*"Gjest Baardsen" (1939) — writer, director
*"Tørres Snørtevold" (1940) — director
*"Den farlige leken" (1942) — director
*"To mistenkelige personer" (1950) — writer, director
**Forbidden to be shown in public by the Supreme Court of Norway in 1952, legalized and published in 2007 [cite web | title =Forbudt film frigjøres for offentligheten: To mistenkelige personer | work =Norsk Filminstitutt | date =29 January, 2007 | url =http://www.nfi.no/arkivbibliotek/_nyheter/vis.html?id=2456 | accessdate = 2007-06-20]
*"Venner" (1960) — director
*"Vildanden" (1963) — director

References

External links

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* [http://www.europeanairlines.no/Arcticles_Aero_270904.htm Tancred Ibsen and A/S Aero]

Persondata
NAME= Ibsen, Tancred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Film director, screenwriter, officer, and pilot
DATE OF BIRTH= 11 July, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH= Gausdal, Norway
DATE OF DEATH= 1978-12-4
PLACE OF DEATH= Oslo, Norway