Swedish stage and screen actor Erland Josephson, best known for his roles in legendary director Ingmar Bergman's films, has died at age 88, Swedish radio reported on Sunday.
"Erland Josephson passed away during the night, 88 years old," the radio said, citing his family.
He had been suffering from Parkinson's disease.
Josephson starred with Liv Ullmann in Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage", a made-for-television series that aired in 1972 and was adapted to the big screen in 1973.
His collaboration with Bergman began in the 1930s when the two worked together in the theatre and the pair remained lifelong friends until Bergman's death in 2007.
It was "Scenes from a Marriage" that introduced Josephson to a broad international audience.
Among the films Bergman and Josephson collaborated on were "The Touch" (1971), "Cries and Whispers" (1972), "Face to Face" (1976), "Autumn Sonata" (1978), and "Fanny and Alexander" (1982), "Faithless" (2000) and "Saraband" (2003).
Josephson also played leading roles in Andrey Tarkovskiy's "Nostalghia" (1983) and "The Sacrifice" (1986), as well as the 1988 adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
Josephson succeeded Bergman as director of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1966, a position he held until 1975. He also headed city theatres in Helsingborg and Gothenburg.
There are no comments yet