Erland Josephson’s Death – Cause and Date

The movie actor Erland Josephson died at the age of 88. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

He directed and starred in the 1980 film, Marmalade Revolution, which played at the Berlin International film festival. His other films include Ulysses’ Gaze, Faithless, Peacetime in Paris and Saraband.

His great grandfather was entomologist Carl Henrik Boheman.

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Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it’s important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

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I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical – there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

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Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a… you say ‘kick’ in America? It’s a fantastic profession in that way.

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I’m too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I’m free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don’t feel well.

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A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.