Tancred Ibsen
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Tancred Ibsen
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11 July 1893 Gausdal, Oppland, Norway |
| Died | 4 December 1978 (aged 85) Oslo, Norway |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, officer, and pilot |
| Spouse(s) | Lillebil Ibsen |
| Children | Tancred Ibsen, Jr. |
| Parent(s) | Sigurd Ibsen and Bergljot Bjørnson |
Tancred Ibsen (11 July 1893 – 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 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. He was married to dancer and actress Lillebil Ibsen. His son Tancred Ibsen, Jr. (1921–2015) was a Norwegian diplomat.
In 1917, Tancred Ibsen started his career in the Army at the Norwegian Army Air Service 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 successfully 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. Ibsen soon 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 had never been formally registered as a limited company, leaving Ibsen personally liable for sizable debts. He managed a favourable settlement.)
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.
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