Erland Josephson, 1923-2012

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• Johan Andreasson says:

  February 26, 2012 at 7:17 pm

  Erland Josephson is of course mostly remembered as an act­or in Ingmar Bergman films, but he also had a par­al­lel career as a writer start­ing in the 1940s. He pub­lished poetry, nov­els, short stor­ies, plays, children’s books and auto­bi­o­graph­ic­al books. And he was a film fan who loved Italian movies, and for some reas­on the first thing I come to think about now is Josephson intro­du­cing BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET in a series at the Stockholm Cinematheque where act­ors picked films that had meant a lot to them. Josephson was a very elo­quent and funny man, and the film was equally enter­tain­ing. An even­ing well spent.

• lipranzer says:

  February 27, 2012 at 12:28 am

  I was just watch­ing AFTER THE REHEARSAL the oth­er day. Not my favor­ite Bergman by a long shot, but even in that film, you could see Josephson and Bergman work­ing com­pletely in sync. When I think of the act­ors Bergman worked with, I either think of the women or, of course, of Max Von Sydow, but Josephson really was the unsung hero of a lot of Bergman movies, espe­cially FACE TO FACE. R.I.P.

• warren oates says:

  February 27, 2012 at 11:58 am

  Josephson was one of those rare great art film act­ors who seemed equally adept at car­ry­ing ultra-serious moods and much light­er com­ic moments. For me what he brought to his roles above all was a deep and groun­ded human­ity, the very qual­ity that allowed him to anchor the cos­mic angst of Tarkovsky’s final films. His passing is a huge loss.

• Stephanie says:

  February 29, 2012 at 3:08 pm

  A very great act­or. So sorry to hear he had Parkinson’s. RIP.