Actor Erland Josephson dies

Published: Sun., February. 26, 2012, 12:04pm PTBy Connected PRESS Swedish actor Erland Josephson, who worked with with legendary film director Ingmar Bergman in additional than 40 films and plays, died in Stockholm on Saturday carrying out a lengthy fight against Parkinson's disease. He was 88. Born right into a group of artists and culture employees in Stockholm, Josephson was 16 as he first met Bergman, who had been pointing a manufacture of "The Merchant of Venice" by which Josephson was taking part being an amateur actor. Although he didn't have any formal acting education, Josephson ongoing to look in a number of Bergman stage plays within the nineteen forties and '50s younger crowd were built with a minor part in 1946 film "It Rains on Our Love." Within the late '50s he performed bigger roles in Bergman's films "The Magician" and "Edge of Existence," but Josephson first shot to worldwide fame using the role of Johan in "Moments From the Marriage," in 1973. Next, he received purports to come in many worldwide film productions and performed Friedrich Nietzsche in Italian director Liliana Cavani's 1977 effort "Beyond Good and Evil." Josephson made an appearance in Philip Kaufman's 1988 film "The Intolerable Lightness to beInch making memorable performances in Andrey Tarkovskiy's eighties films "Nostalghia" and "The Sacrifice." The actor won several Swedish film awards and received an honorary award in the Rimini film festival in 1986. 2 yrs later, he received the Off Broadway Theater Award for the best performance for his role as Gajev in Peter Brooks' NY manufacture of "Cherry Farm." Josephson also released many books and autobiographical books and 2 poetry collections, and that he composed some 40 scripts for stage, tv and radio. He offered as mind of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater between 1966 and 1975 and was director from the Swedish Film Institute within the the nineteen nineties. Josephson is made it by his wife Ulla Aberg and five children. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com