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      • Austrian actor Helmut Berger, the groundbreaking star of European cinematic masterpieces such as Luchino Visconti ‘s “The Damned” and Vittorio De Sica’s “Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” has died at the age of 78. Berger died at home in Austria from natural causes.
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  2. The death of Luchino Visconti in 1976 plunged him into a personal crisis. Exactly one year after Visconti died, Berger tried to commit suicide but was found in time to be saved. [5] . Drug and alcohol abuse began to shadow his acting career.

  3. May 21, 2023 · Helmut Berger, a handsome Austrian movie star who was best known for appearing in three feature films by the Italian neorealist director Luchino Visconti, his lover for a dozen years, died on...

  4. May 19, 2023 · Austrian-born actor Helmut Berger, a European movie star in the 1960s and 1970s who rose to prominence with roles in films by Italian director Luchino Visconti, has died. He was 78. His agent said that Berger died “peacefully but nevertheless unexpectedly” early Thursday in his home city of Salzburg.

  5. Jun 24, 2023 · Long before Visconti died in. 1976, Berger had drifted into excess and addiction. He was given to chopping out lines of cocaine with a gold razor blade and snorting them through a gold straw specially made for him by Bulgari, which he wore on a chain around his neck.

  6. May 19, 2023 · Helmut Berger, a golden-haired star of European cinema known for playing sinister but seductive characters in films by Italian master Luchino Visconti, his partner of more than a decade, died...

  7. May 19, 2023 · Berger died at home in Austria from natural causes. In one of European cinema’s most storied and creative periods, the 60s and 70s, Berger boldly established his place in the pantheon...

  8. May 18, 2023 · Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor and regular Luchino Visconti collaborator who become one of the most recognizable faces of European arthouse cinema in the 1960s, has died at the age of 78.