Rolf Forsberg | |
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Born | |
Died | February 16, 2017 | (aged 91)
Occupation(s) | Producer, Director, Writer, Playwright |
Rolf Forsberg (July 12, 1925 – February 16, 2017) was an American playwright, film and theater director.[1]
Forsberg is known for directing films such as The Late Great Planet Earth[2] and Parable, a film produced for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Parable portrayed humanity as a traveling circus and Jesus Christ as a circus clown. This marked a new depiction of Christ[3] and inspired the musical Godspell. Parable went on to be honored at Cannes, the Edinburgh Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.[4]
On June 8, 2013, the UCLA Film and Television Archive offered a retrospective of the works of Rolf Forsberg titled The Outre World of Rolf Forsberg.[5] He died in February 2017 at the age of 92.[6]