We were just talking about Scenes From a Marriage , too: The Swedish actor-writer-director Erland Josephson has died following a protracted battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was 88. Josephson came to prominence as a friend, theater colleague and eventual ensemble player for the great Ingmar Bergman, finally breaking into the leading-man ranks in the filmmaker’s seminal relationship epic Scenes before eventually diversifying with roles in films by Peter Greenaway ( Prospero’s Books ), Philip Kaufman ( The Unbearable Light of Being ) and, most indelibly, Andrei Tarkovsky, who cast Josephson in his 1986 masterpiece The Sacrifice . Very sad. R.I.P. [ NYT ]
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Erland Josephson, Bergman Star, Dead at 88
