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Herbert Berghof is a Actor Autrichien born on 13 september 1909 at Vienna (Austria)
Herbert Berghof (13 September 1909 – 5 November 1990) was an Austrian-American actor, director and acting coach. He co-founded HB Studio (the Herbert Berghof Studio) in New York City with his wife Uta Hagen in 1945. Some of his famous students include Jon Stewart, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Geraldine Page, Fritz Weaver, Anne Bancroft, Donna McKechnie and Matthew Broderick. Berghof was also one of the first members of the newly formed Actors Studio in 1947, his classmates including Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Jerome Robbins, and Sidney Lumet.
His acting roles include appearances in 5 Fingers (1952), Red Planet Mars (1952), Fräulein (1958), Cleopatra (1963), An Affair of the Skin (1963), Harry and Tonto (1974), Voices (1979), Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980), Times Square (1980) and Target (1985).
Described by The New York Times as "one of the nation's most respected acting teachers and coaches", he died of a heart ailment on November 5, 1990 at his home in Manhattan.
Cette même année 1939, il met une scène à Broadway (New York) la revue From Vienna au profit de réfugiés comme lui. Il est régulièrement acteur et metteur en scène sur les planches new-yorkaises par la suite.
Citons par exemple Nathan le Sage de Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1942, où il tient le rôle-titre aux côtés d'Olive Deering et Alfred Ryder), la comédie musicale Oklahoma ! sur une musique de Richard Rodgers (représentée de 1943 à 1948, où il est l'un des remplaçants de Joseph Buloff dans le rôle d'Ali Hakim), Les Revenants et Hedda Gabler d'Henrik Ibsen (1948, aux côtés d'Eva Le Gallienne), En attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett (metteur en scène, en 1956 avec Bert Lahr et E. G. Marshall, puis en 1957 avec Earle Hyman et Mantan Moreland), ou encore Pauvre Assassin de Pavel Kohout (adaptateur et metteur en scène, 1976-1977, avec Maria Schell et Kevin McCarthy), son avant-dernière pièce à Broadway.
Suit en 1980 Charlotte de Peter Hacks, adaptée par Uta Hagen et Herbert Berghof, mise en scène par lui. Cette ultime pièce est jouée par ladite Uta Hagen (1919-2004), qu'il épouse en secondes noces en 1957 et restée sa veuve à sa mort en 1990, à 81 ans.
Fait notable durant sa carrière théâtrale, il est le fondateur en 1945 de l'école de théâtre new-yorkaise HB Studio (de ses initiales), comptant entre autres parmi ses élèves Anne Bancroft et Robert De Niro.
Au cinéma, il contribue à treize films américains, les quatre premiers sortis en 1952, dont L'Affaire Cicéron de Joseph L. Mankiewicz (avec James Mason et Danielle Darrieux) et Courrier diplomatique d'Henry Hathaway (avec Tyrone Power et Patricia Neal).
Ultérieurement, mentionnons Cléopâtre du même Mankiewicz (1963, avec Elizabeth Taylor dans le rôle-titre et Richard Burton), Harry et Tonto de Paul Mazursky (1974, avec Art Carney et Ellen Burstyn) et Target d'Arthur Penn (avec Gene Hackman et Matt Dillon), son dernier film sorti en 1985.
À la télévision américaine enfin, Herbert Berghof apparaît dans deux téléfilms, le premier étant Victoire sur la nuit de Robert Butler (1976, avec Elizabeth Montgomery et Anthony Hopkins), remake du film éponyme de 1939 ; le second est diffusé en 1985.
S'ajoutent seize séries de 1950 à 1974, dont Studio One (deux épisodes, 1953-1955) et Playhouse 90 (un épisode, 1959).
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Nationality Austria
Birth 13 september 1909 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 5 november 1990 (at 81 years) at New York City (USA)
Birth 13 september 1909 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 5 november 1990 (at 81 years) at New York City (USA)
His acting roles include appearances in 5 Fingers (1952), Red Planet Mars (1952), Fräulein (1958), Cleopatra (1963), An Affair of the Skin (1963), Harry and Tonto (1974), Voices (1979), Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980), Times Square (1980) and Target (1985).
Described by The New York Times as "one of the nation's most respected acting teachers and coaches", he died of a heart ailment on November 5, 1990 at his home in Manhattan.
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Formé au théâtre notamment à l'Académie de musique et des arts du spectacle de Vienne et auprès de Max Reinhardt à Berlin, Herbert Berghof débute sur les planches dans son pays natal et en Allemagne. Suite à l'Anschluss en 1938, il fuit le nazisme et émigre aux États-Unis en 1939.Cette même année 1939, il met une scène à Broadway (New York) la revue From Vienna au profit de réfugiés comme lui. Il est régulièrement acteur et metteur en scène sur les planches new-yorkaises par la suite.
Citons par exemple Nathan le Sage de Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1942, où il tient le rôle-titre aux côtés d'Olive Deering et Alfred Ryder), la comédie musicale Oklahoma ! sur une musique de Richard Rodgers (représentée de 1943 à 1948, où il est l'un des remplaçants de Joseph Buloff dans le rôle d'Ali Hakim), Les Revenants et Hedda Gabler d'Henrik Ibsen (1948, aux côtés d'Eva Le Gallienne), En attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett (metteur en scène, en 1956 avec Bert Lahr et E. G. Marshall, puis en 1957 avec Earle Hyman et Mantan Moreland), ou encore Pauvre Assassin de Pavel Kohout (adaptateur et metteur en scène, 1976-1977, avec Maria Schell et Kevin McCarthy), son avant-dernière pièce à Broadway.
Suit en 1980 Charlotte de Peter Hacks, adaptée par Uta Hagen et Herbert Berghof, mise en scène par lui. Cette ultime pièce est jouée par ladite Uta Hagen (1919-2004), qu'il épouse en secondes noces en 1957 et restée sa veuve à sa mort en 1990, à 81 ans.
Fait notable durant sa carrière théâtrale, il est le fondateur en 1945 de l'école de théâtre new-yorkaise HB Studio (de ses initiales), comptant entre autres parmi ses élèves Anne Bancroft et Robert De Niro.
Au cinéma, il contribue à treize films américains, les quatre premiers sortis en 1952, dont L'Affaire Cicéron de Joseph L. Mankiewicz (avec James Mason et Danielle Darrieux) et Courrier diplomatique d'Henry Hathaway (avec Tyrone Power et Patricia Neal).
Ultérieurement, mentionnons Cléopâtre du même Mankiewicz (1963, avec Elizabeth Taylor dans le rôle-titre et Richard Burton), Harry et Tonto de Paul Mazursky (1974, avec Art Carney et Ellen Burstyn) et Target d'Arthur Penn (avec Gene Hackman et Matt Dillon), son dernier film sorti en 1985.
À la télévision américaine enfin, Herbert Berghof apparaît dans deux téléfilms, le premier étant Victoire sur la nuit de Robert Butler (1976, avec Elizabeth Montgomery et Anthony Hopkins), remake du film éponyme de 1939 ; le second est diffusé en 1985.
S'ajoutent seize séries de 1950 à 1974, dont Studio One (deux épisodes, 1953-1955) et Playhouse 90 (un épisode, 1959).
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Target (1985)
, 1h57Directed by Arthur Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films
Actors Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brad Williams, Josef Sommer, Guy Boyd
Roles Schroeder
Rating58%
In Dallas, Walter Lloyd (Hackman) runs a lumber business. After checking out at the office, Walter stops by the local racetrack, where his college-age son Chris (Dillon) works repairing stock cars. He reminds Chris of his mother's departure for Europe that afternoon, and Chris meets him back at the house to send her off.
Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
, 1h45Directed by Michael Pressman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller, Herbert Berghof, Kevin McCarthy
Roles Dr. Julius Fuldauer
Rating63%
In the early 1950s, a star-struck Ohio boy, Artie Shoemaker, skips school to work behind the scenes for a touring stock theatrical company.
Times Square (1980)
, 1h51Directed by Allan Moyle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Tim Curry, Steve James, Peter Coffield, Herbert Berghof
Roles Dr. Huber
Rating65%
Nicky Marotta (Robin Johnson) and Pamela Pearl (Trini Alvarado) are two teenage girls who meet in the New York Neurological Hospital, where they are both being examined for mental illness. Pamela feels lonely and misunderstood, and is neglected and exploited by her father, a prominent and wealthy environmental commissioner running a campaign to "clean up" Times Square. Nicky is a tough-talking street kid with musical aspirations, sent to the hospital for an evaluation after an altercation with the police. Sharing a room, the frank Nicky and the shy Pamela become friends; Nicky tells Pamela that she stages seizures to keep out of juvenile detention. Nicky admires Pamela's poetic spirit; Pamela admires Nicky's forthright attitude, and resents the condescending way in which the doctors treat her. Nicky tells Pamela not to take her meds as they "take your fight away." She also reads a poem that Pamela wrote about her: "Your ribs are my ladder, Nicky/I'm so amazed, I'm so amazed." Nicky is released from the hospital, and later returns, ostensibly for an appointment for her social worker, but really to break Pamela out. Both girls escape from the hospital, steal an ambulance, and hide out in an abandoned Chelsea Piers No.56 on the Hudson River. Pamela tells Nicky, "Everything you do, or you say, is poetry. At least, I think so." The girls seal their devotion to each other with a blood oath and make a pact to scream out each other's names in times of trouble.
Times Square (1980)
, 1h51Directed by Allan Moyle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Peter Coffield, Herbert Berghof, David Margulies
Roles Dr. Huber
Rating65%
Deux filles, l'une rebelle et l'autre réservée, s'échappent d'une clinique psychiatrique et développent une amitié dans les rues de New-York. Elles décident alors de mener un train de vie punk-rock délirant, avant que les autorités ne commencent activement à les rechercher, ce qui perturbe leur états mentaux déjà fragiles.
Voices (1979)
, 1h46Directed by Robert Markowitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Michael Ontkean, Amy Irving, Alex Rocco, Barry Miller, Herbert Berghof, Allan Rich
Roles Nathan Rothman
Rating66%
Harry and Tonto (1974)
, 1h55Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Transport films, Films about cats, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Art Carney, Herbert Berghof, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman, Chief Dan George
Roles Jacob Rivetowski
Rating72%
Harry Coombes (Art Carney) is an elderly widower and retired teacher who is forced from his Upper West Side apartment in New York City when his building is condemned. He initially stays with his eldest son Burt's family in the suburbs but eventually chooses to travel cross country with his pet cat "Tonto" in tow.
Cleopatra (1963)
, 4h8Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn
Roles Theodotos
Rating70%
After the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey, Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). The Romans hold, and the armies of Mithridates arrive on Egyptian soil. The following day, Caesar passes judgment. He sentences Ptolemy's lord chamberlain to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra. Cleopatra is crowned Queen of Egypt. She dreams of ruling the world with Caesar. When their son Caesarion is born, Caesar accepts him publicly, which becomes the talk of Rome and the Senate.
An Affair of the Skin (1963)
, 1h42Directed by Ben Maddow
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Viveca Lindfors, Kevin McCarthy, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Herbert Berghof, Nancy Malone
Roles Max
Rating65%
This drama story take place in New York and describes the sexual relations of the three main characters, Victoria Allen and his wife Katherine including the problems they encounter, as told in three intertwined stories. Victoria is an aging fashion model who is afraid to let go of her young male lover because she thinks she is too old to ever get another man to love her. Allen and Katherine are an unhappily married neurotic couple with problems of their own.
Fraulein (1958)
, 1h35Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Dana Wynter, Mel Ferrer, Dolores Michaels, Margaret Hayes, Theodore Bikel, Luis van Rooten
Roles Karl Angermann
Rating64%
In Berlin near the end of World War II, American prisoner of war Foster MacLain (Mel Ferrer) escapes and is sheltered by Professor Julius Angermann (Ivan Triesault). Angermann's daughter Erika (Dana Wynter) is not so welcoming, but hides the American from the soldiers looking for him. MacLain leaves when it is safe.
5 Fingers (1952)
, 1h48Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden, Oskar Karlweis, Herbert Berghof
Roles Col. von Richter
Rating75%
In neutral Turkey in 1944, German ambassador Franz von Papen (John Wengraf) and his British counterpart Sir Frederic Taylor (Walter Hampden) attend a reception and encounter Countess Anna Staviska (Danielle Darrieux), who is a Frenchwoman and the widow of a Polish count. Now destitute, the countess volunteers to become a spy for a fee, but she is turned down.
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
, 1h37Directed by Henry Hathaway, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Karl Malden, Helene Stanley, Hildegard Knef
Roles Arnov
Rating67%
Mike Kells is assigned by the State Department to fly to Salzburg and meet his old friend Sam Carew, who will pass a top-secret document to him. A passenger on the plane, Joan Ross, takes a liking to Mike and expresses a desire to see him again.
Red Planet Mars (1952)
, 1h27Directed by Harry Horner
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films based on plays, Space opera
Actors Peter Graves, Andrea King, Walter Sande, Marvin Miller, Herbert Berghof, Marvin Miller
Roles Franz Calder
Rating49%
An American astronomer obtains images of Mars suggesting large-scale environmental changes are occurring at a pace that can only be accomplished by intelligent beings with advanced technology. At the same time a colleague claims to have been contacting Mars by radio, using technology stolen from the Nazis after World War II. He communicates first through an exchange of mathematical concepts, like the value of pi, and then through answers to specific questions about Martian life. The transmissions claim that Mars is a utopia fueled by nuclear power, which has led to great technological advancement and the elimination of scarcity, but that there is no fear of nuclear war.
Assignment: Paris (1952)
, 1h25Directed by Robert Parrish, Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Sandro Giglio, Audrey Totter, Donald Randolph
Roles Prime Minister Andreas Ordy
Rating60%
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador. While on assignment, Race is framed for espionage.