| William Berger | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wilhelm Thomas Berger June 20, 1928 Innsbruck, Austria |
| Died | October 2, 1993 (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Bill Berger Wilhelm Berger |
| Occupation | Actor |
William Berger (also mentioned as Bill Berger or Wilhelm Berger; born Wilhelm Thomas Berger on June 20, 1928 in Innsbruck, Austria – October 2, 1993 in Los Angeles, USA, of prostate cancer) was a European actor, mostly associated with Euro or spaghetti Westerns and travel documentaries.
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Biography [link]
Career [link]
A former roommate of Keith Richards, his earliest work was in Broadway theater, but while visiting Italy, he was cast in his first Western, Break Up in 1965. A series of westerns followed, including Faccia a faccia (1967), Today We Kill Tomorrow We Die (1968), If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968), Sabata (1969) and Keoma (1975). He also starred in Five Dolls for an August Moon.
In the early 1970s, Berger spent some time in an Italian prison, wrongly accused of possession of hashish and cocaine, but resumed his acting career after his release. His later fare included Love Letters from a Portuguese Nun (1977) - inspired in Letters of a Portuguese Nun by Mariana Alcoforado -, Super Fly T.N.T. (1973), Hercules (1983), Devil Fish (1984), The Brother from Space (1988), Dial Help (1988) and The King's Whore (1990). His 1985 memoirs, Half Way Home, recount his life to that point.
Personal life [link]
He married a couple of times. He had two daughters with his first wife: Carin Berger (1952) and actress Debra Berger (March 17, 1957). He had his first son - Wendell Nelson Berger - on December 28, 1972. By second wife songstress, singer, songwriter and actress Hanja Kochansky he had two children: a daughter actress Katya Berger and a son child actor Kasimir Berger (born in London on October 7, 1974), who starred with his father in the TV mini-series Christopher Columbus (1985) as Diego as a Child, in Tuareg - Il guerriero del deserto (1984) (uncredited) as Gacel's Son and with his mother and sister in Rosso sangue (1981) as Willy Bennett. On June 21, 1975 he had his last son Alexander Völz with Dörte Völz. He had no children with his last wife, Linda Berger.
External links [link]
https://wn.com/William_Berger_(actor)
William Berger
William Berger may refer to:
William Berger (author)
William Berger (or Will Berger) is an American author, radio music host and commentator.
Born in California 25 January 1961, studied Romance languages and musicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. For five years he worked in the San Francisco Opera, being responsible for acquiring company’s records collection. As author, he wrote such books on music and operatic composers as: Wagner Without Fear (1998), Verdi With a Vengeance (2000), Puccini Without Excuses (2005), all published by Random House. He has also written opera libretti and articles on religion and architecture.
He frequently gives lectures on operatic music and composers, and is also a radio commentator and has recently been a regular host for New York Public Radio’s Overnight Music and WNYC radio. Since creation of the Metropolitan Opera Radio on Sirius in the Fall of 2006, he writes all the commentaries heard during entractes of historical broadcasts. Berger is currently often a co-host during live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, and is often the moderator of those broadcasts' Met Opera Quiz.
