Helmut Berger

Helmut Berger was born Helmut Steinberger on the 29^th May, 1944; he is an Austrian actor. He most popular for the work he did with Luchino Visconti, especially in his role as the King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig for which he got a special David di Donatello award.

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Helmut Berger was born in Bad Ischl, Austria into a family of horeliers, for which he remains persona no grata. At first he trained and worked in this field, even though he never had any interest in gastronomy or the hospitality industry. He moved to London at the age of 8, and it was there that he did odd-jobs while he was receiving lessons on acting. He moved to the city of Rome after studying languages in the city of Perugia.

In the year 1964, Helmut Berger first met with the director called Luchino Visconti, who handed him his first acting role in the film called Le Streghe, though his international fame came from the role he played in the movie called The Damned in the year 1969.

Helmut Berger has worked in TV, famously in the role of Peter De Vilbis in nine episodes 1983 to 1984 of the American Prime-time soap opera Dynasty that he did for money.

Helmut Berger is openly bisexual. He was in a long-term relationship with Visconti and he was in a relationship with Marisa Berenson and was also romantically linked with Bianca Jagger, Nathalie Delon, and Marisa Mell.  Helmut Berger married the Italian writer called Francesca Guidato on November 19, 1994, though they are separated.

Filmography

Ø  1967 – Le streghe (The Witches) (Luchino Visconti)

Ø  1968 – The Young Tigers (Antonio Leonviola)

Ø  1968 – Sai cosa faceva Stalin alle donne? (Maurizio Liverani)

Ø  1969 – The Damned (Luchino Visconti)

Ø  1970 – Dorian Gray (Massimo Dallamano)

Ø  1970 – The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)

Ø  1971 – Un beau monstre (Sergio Gobbi)

Ø  1971 – The Bloodstained Butterfly (Duccio Tessari)

Ø  1972 – Ludwig (Luchino Visconti)

Ø  1972 – La colonna infame (Nelo Risi)

Ø  1973 – Les Voraces (Sergio Gobbi)

Ø  1973 – Ash Wednesday (Larry Peerce)

Ø  1973 – Reigen (de) (Otto Schenk)

Ø  1974 – Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti)

Ø  1975 – Order to Kill (José G. Maesso)

Ø  1975 – The Romantic Englishwoman (Joseph Losey)

Ø  1976 – Salon Kitty (Tinto Brass)

Ø  1976 – Victory at Entebbe (Marvin Chomsky)

Ø  1977 – Beast with a Gun (Sergio Grieco)

Ø  1978 – The Fifth Commandment (Duccio Tessari)

Ø  1978 – The Biggest Battle (Umberto Lenzi)

Ø  1979 – Le rose di Danzica (Alberto Bevilacqua)
1980 – Fantômas (Claude Chabrol)

Ø  1981 – Mia moglie è una strega (Castellano & Pipolo)

Ø  1982 – Deadly Game (Károly Makk)

Ø  1982 – Victoria! La gran aventura de un poble (Antoni Ribas)

Ø  1983 – Eroina (Massimo Pirri) 1983 – Femmes (Tana Kaleya)

Ø  1983 – Victoria! 2: El frenesì del 17 (Antoni Ribas)

Ø  1983 – Veliki Transport (V. Bulajic)

Ø  1983–1984 – Dynasty (television series)

Ø  1984 – Victoria! 3: La razon y el arrebato (Antoni Ribas)

Ø  1985 – Code Name: Emerald (Jonathan Sanger)

Ø  1988 – Faceless (Jess Franco)

Ø  1988 – Act of Revenge (Salvatore Nocita)

Ø  1989 – La Puritana (Nini Grassia)

Ø  1990 – The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)

Ø  1992 – Adelaide (Lucio Gaudino)

Ø  1993 – Boomtown (Christoph Schrewe)

Ø  1993 – Ludwig 1881 (F. Dubini / D. Dubini)

Ø  1995 – L'affaire Dreyfuss (Yves Boisset)

Ø  1996 – Teo (Cinzia TH Torrini)

Ø  1996 – L'ombra del faraone (S. Ben Barka)

Ø  1996 – Last Cut (Marcello Avallone)

Ø  1997 – Die 120 Tage von Bottrop (Christoph Schlingensief)

Ø  1999 – Under the Palms (M. Kruishoop)

Ø  2002 – Zapping Alien (V. Zeplichal)

Ø  2004 – Honey Baby (Mika Kaurismäki)

Ø  2005 – Damals warst du still (R. Matsutani)

Ø  2008 – Blutsfreundschaft (Peter Kern)

Ø  2010 – Iron Cross (Joshua Newton)

Ø  2011 – Mörderschwestern (Peter Kern)

Ø  2013 – The Devil's Violinist (Bernard Rose)

Ø  2014 – Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)