He first made his mark in “The Damned” as a character one critic said personified “the outright perversion” of Nazism. He and the director became lovers. By Richard Sandomir Helmut Berger, a handsome ...

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 May 18 ...

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 ...

Helmut Berger, a handsome Austrian movie star who was best known for appearing in three feature films by Italian neorealist director Luchino Viscontihis lover for a dozen years, died Thursday at his ...