Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. As one of the founders of Modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include "Brand", "Peer Gynt", "An Enemy of the People", "Emperor and Galilean", "A Doll's House", "Hedda Gabler", "Ghosts", "The Wild Duck", "When We Dead Awaken", "Pillars of Society", "The Lady from the Sea", "Rosmersholm", "The Master Builder", and "John Gabriel Borkman". He is the most frequently
Greta Gynt Is a Woman" (1957) and the lead in "Morning Call" (1957), and "The Crowning Touch" (1959). Gynt had a support role in "Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons" (1959). Her last film was a Columbia Pictures release, "The Runaway" 1963 (released 1966) in which she played the lead. Reportedly, she adopted the name Gynt after she heard a pianist playing Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" in a hotel in London in the late 1930s. In her 1938 radio interview with NRK she states her husband exclaimed "What's this?" and her name was born. Gynt was married four times. Her last husband was Frederick