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Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (1996) is the trilogy closed. Here, as in 'Den Goda Viljan' Pernilla August play his mother. Note that all three movies are not always full true biographical stories. He began his career early with a puppet theatre which he, his sister and their friends played with. But he was the manager. Strictly professional he begun writing in 1941. He had written a play called 'Kaspers död' (A.K.A. 'Kaspers Death') which was produced the same year. It became his entrance into the movie business as Stina Bergman (not a close relative), from the company S.F. (Swedish Filmindustry), had seen the play and thought that there must be some dramatic talent in young Ingmar. His first job was to save other more famous writers' poor scripts. Under one of that script-saving works he remembered that he had written a novel about his last year as a student. He took the novel, did the save-poor-script job first, then wrote a screenplay on his own novel. When he went back to S.F., he delivered two scripts rather than one. The script was Torment (1944) and was the fist Bergman screenplay that was put into film (by Alf Sjöberg). It was also in that movie Bergman did his first professional film-director job. Because Alf Sjöberg was busy, Bergman got the order to shoot the last sequence of the film. Ingmar Bergman is the father of Daniel Bergman, director, and Mats Bergman, actor at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater. Ingmar Bergman was also C.E.O. of the same theatre between 1963-1966, where he hired almost every professional actor in Sweden. In 1976 he had a famous tax problem. Bergman had trusted other people to advise him on his finances, but it turned out to be very bad advice. Bergman had to leave the country immediately, and so he went to Germany. A few years later he returned to Sweden and made his last theatrical film Fanny and Alexander (1982). In later life he retired from movie directing, but still wrote scripts for film and T.V. and directed plays at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre for many years. He died peacefully in his sleep on July 30, 2007.

Clive Dunn was born on 9 January 1920 in Brixton, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Dad's Army (1968), The Avengers (1961) and Bootsie and Snudge (1960). He was married to Priscilla Morgan and Patricia Kenyon. He died on 6 November 2012 in Faro, Algarve, Portugal.

Carlos Santos was born on 4 October 1937 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor, known for Operation Autumn (2012), Bem-Vindos a Beirais (2013) and A Mãe é que Sabe (2016). He died on 27 November 2016 in Faro, Algarve, Portugal.

Wolfgang Koszics was born on 18 August 1942 in Hamburg, Germany. He died on 24 February 2014 in Faro, Algarve, Portugal.

Sverri Egholm was born on 31 August 1930 in Leynar, Faroe Islands. He was an actor, known for Atlantic Rhapsody - 52 myndir úr Tórshavn (1990), Bye Bye Blue Bird (1999) and Manden der fik lov at gå (1995). He died on 24 January 2001 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.

William Heinesen was born on 15 January 1900 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. He was a writer, known for The Dance (1998), Tro, håb og trolddom (1960) and I havets og de lyse nætters land - et sommereventyr fra Færøerne (1972). He died on 12 March 1991 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.

Carlos Porfírio was born on 29 March 1895 in Faro, Portugal. Carlos was a writer and director, known for Sonho de Amor (1945), Um Grito na Noite (1948) and A Revolução de Maio (1945). Carlos died on 25 November 1970 in Faro, Portugal.