Rolf Forsberg is a Swedish-American playwright, film and theater director known for directing such films as The Late Great Planet Earth and Parable

Parable

A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or a normative principle. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally feature human...

a film produced for the 1964 New York World's Fair

1964 New York World's Fair

The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair was the third major world's fair to be held in New York City. Hailing itself as a "universal and international" exposition, the fair's theme was "Peace Through Understanding," dedicated to "Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe";...

. Parable portrayed humanity as a traveling circus and Jesus Christ as a circus clown. This marked a new depiction of Christ and inspired the musical Godspell

Godspell

Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

. Parable went on to be honored at Cannes

Cannes

Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....

 and the Edinburgh Film Festival and Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

.

Rolf Forsberg is the father of film director Eric Forsberg

Eric Forsberg

Eric Forsberg is the writer and director of the feature film Mega Piranha, as well as the writer of the feature film Snakes on a Train, a mockbuster produced and released by The Asylum. He also wrote the screenplays for 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea and War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, also for...

. From 1945 to 1965 Rolf Forsberg was married to stage director Josephine Forsberg

Josephine Forsberg

Josephine Forsberg , ex-wife of film director Rolf Forsberg was hired by Paul Sills and Viola Spolin to join the original Second City in 1959 as the female understudy and Spolin's teaching assistant...

.

Filmography

Sacagawea – on PBS,(2003)
Tecumseh – History Channel (1997)
Seven Signs of Christ's Return (1997)
Where Jesus Walked – starring Barbara Harris

Barbara Harris

Barbara Harris may refer to:*Barbara Clementine Harris, first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion*Barbara Harris , American actress*Barbara Eve Harris, Canadian actress*Barbara Harris , lead singer of the R&B group The Toys...

 (1995)
Touring Civil War Battlefields (1992)
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – narrated by Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...

 (1990)
Beyond The Next Mountain – starring Saeed Jaffery & Barry Foster (1987)
The Late Great Planet Earth – starring Orson Wells (1979)
Mother Tiger Mother Tiger (1976)
Peace Child (1972)
King of the Hill (1972)
Ark

Ark

Ark is a Latin-based word that means a "box" or container. Ark may refer to:-Religion:* Ark , a cabinet used to store a synagogue's Torah scroll* Ark of the Covenant, the consecrated container for the tablets of the Ten Commandments...

 (1970)
Stalked – starring Jack Hawkins

Jack Hawkins

Colonel John Edward "Jack" Hawkins CBE was an English actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.-Career:Hawkins was born at Lyndhurst Road, Wood Green, Middlesex, the son of master builder Thomas George Hawkins and his wife, Phoebe née Goodman. The youngest of four children in a close-knit family,...

(1968)
Awarness (1968)
Antkeeper – narrated by Fred Gwynne

Fred Gwynne

Frederick Hubbard "Fred" Gwynne was an American actor. Gwynne was best known for his roles in the 1960s sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as well as his later roles: Pet Sematary and My Cousin Vinny...

 (1966)
Parable

Parable

A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or a normative principle. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally feature human...

 (1964)
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)

Court Theatre (Chicago)

The Court Theatre is a professional theatre located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Court Theatre is affiliated with the University of Chicago, receiving in-kind support from the University and operating within the larger University umbrella...

 (1962)
A Tenth of an Inch makes the Difference – New York (1961)
The Tempest- off-Broadway (1959)
The Tempest – San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (1958)
Oedipus Rex – Court Theatre (Chicago)

Court Theatre (Chicago)

The Court Theatre is a professional theatre located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Court Theatre is affiliated with the University of Chicago, receiving in-kind support from the University and operating within the larger University umbrella...

 (1960)
Round Dance – Playwrights, Chicago (1955)
Shakuntala – Playwrights, Chicago (1954)
The Trojan Women

The Trojan Women

The Trojan Women is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier in 415 BC , the same year...

 by Euripides

Euripides

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...

 – Court Theatre (Chicago)

Court Theatre (Chicago)

The Court Theatre is a professional theatre located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Court Theatre is affiliated with the University of Chicago, receiving in-kind support from the University and operating within the larger University umbrella...

(1956)
Rashomon – Chicago (1953)
Moods From Shakespeare, USA Tour (1944–1953)

External links