Berghof, Herbert

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 639 words | Copyright

Berghof, Herbert (1909–90), actor, director, and teacher. Born in Vienna, he studied at the Vienna State Academy of Dramatic Art and with Max Reinhardt, then spent many years performing in Austria and Germany. Berghof first appeared on the New York stage in 1941 and went on to play many roles, most memorably in Ibsen revivals of the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was also a respected director, staging the Broadway production of Waiting for Godot (1956), but he was best known as a leading teacher of acting. He taught at several noted institutions before founding his own studio in 1946, which he ran with his wife, Uta Hagen.

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