Rolf Forsberg

Rolf Forsberg (July 12, 1925 – February 16, 2017) was an American playwright, film and theater director.^[1]

Rolf Forsberg
Born	(1925-07-12)July 12, 1925 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	February 16, 2017(2017-02-16) (aged 91)
Occupation(s)	Producer, Director, Writer, Playwright

Biography

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]

Filmography

• Sacagawea – on PBS, (2003)
• Tecumseh – History Channel (1997)
• Seven Signs of Christ's Return (2002)
• Where Jesus Walked – starring Barbara Harris (1995)
• Touring Civil War Battlefields (1992)
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – narrated by Pierce Brosnan (1990)
• Beyond The Next Mountain – starring Saeed Jaffery and Barry Foster (1987)
• The Late Great Planet Earth – starring Orson Welles (1979)
• Mother Tiger Mother Tiger (1976)
• Peace Child (1974)
• Nail (1974)
• And There Was Morning (1973)
• One Friday (1973)
• King of the Hill (1972)
• Ark (1970)^[7]
• Stalked – starring Jack Hawkins(1968)^[7]
• Awareness (1968)^[8]
• Antkeeper – narrated by Fred Gwynne (1966)
• Parable (1964)^[9]
• Light Time for PBS (1960)

Stage-ography

• A Tenth of an Inch Makes The Difference – performer's Arena, Chicago (1984)
• Revival – Pasadena Playhouse Studio (1973)
• The Dybbuk Between Two Worlds – Court Theatre (Chicago) (1962)^[10]
• A Tenth of an Inch makes the Difference – New York (1961)^[11]
• The Tempest- off-Broadway (1959)
• The Tempest – San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (1958)
• Oedipus Rex – Court Theatre (Chicago) (1960)^[10]
• Round Dance – Playwrights, Chicago (1955)
• Shakuntala^[11] – Playwrights, Chicago (1954)
• The Trojan Women by Euripides – Court Theatre (Chicago) (1956)^[10]
• Rashomon – Chicago (1953)
• Moods From Shakespeare, USA Tour (1944–1953)^[10]