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'''Tancred Ibsen''' (11 July 1893 – 4 December 1978) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]], [[Aviator|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. ==Aviation career==
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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. == 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'' ("The Great Christening"). 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> with [[Leif Sinding]] in second place. 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.
After the war, Ibsen took on the project ''To mistenkelige personer'' ("Two Suspicious Individuals"), 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.
==Second World War==
Ibsen was arrested by the German [[Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany|occupiers of Norway]] during the [[Second World War]], on 17 August 1943. He was imprisoned in [[Oflag XXI-C|Schildberg]] and then [[Oflag III-A|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>
== Personal life ==
Ibsen was the son of [[Sigurd Ibsen]], and 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.
His 1976 autobiography was called ''Believe It or Not''.
== Selected filmography ==
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