| [[August Strindberg]] <ref>{{cite web |title=Bergman and literature: August Strindberg |url=http://www.ingmarbergman.se/universe.asp?guid=9382BA49-EA89-48D2-9AE3-1C3BF39CFAC4 |work=Ingmar Bergman Face to Face |publisher=Ingmar Bergman Foundation |accessdate=26 May 2011 |quote=Strindberg has followed me all of my life: I have loved him, hated him and thrown his books in the wall, but rid of him, I cannot get.}}</ref>
| [[Victor Sjöström]]
| [[Victor Sjöström]] <ref name=sydsv1>{{cite web |last=Aghed |first=Jan |title=När Bergman går på bio |url=http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur-och-nojen/article255225/Nar-Bergman-gar-pa-bio.html |work=Sydsvenska Dagbladet |accessdate=26 May 2011 |language=Swedish |date=30 July 2002 |quote=If we talk about filmmakers who have given me fundamental experiences and impulses we have to begin with Victor Sjöström, him first and most of all. And then Marcel Carné and Kurosawa and of course Fellini. No order of precedence between them, it's just that I have a special relationship to them in particular.}}</ref>
| [[Akira Kurosawa]] <ref name=sydsv1 />
| [[Federico Fellini]] <ref name=sydsv1 />
| [[Marcel Carné]] <ref name=sydsv1 />
}}
|spouse = {{unbulleted list |[[Else Fisher]] {{small|(1943–45)}} |Ellen Lundström {{small|(1945–50)}} |Gun Grut {{small|(1951–59)}} |[[Käbi Laretei]] {{small|(1959–69)}} |{{nowrap|[[Ingrid von Rosen]] {{small|(1971–95)}}}}}}
