The Italian authorities (through neglect) killed Carol it seems to me.
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Thanks for the link. Some great interviews in the archive. Appreciated
O’Brien’s saying he got parts because Berger, “was busy or he was arrested” as evidence that Berger’s career was sacrificed to drugs sounds disingenuous.
An actor being busy hardly plays to his claim, and descibing that abominable miscarriage of justice as, “getting mixed up in drugs” is either heartless or ignorant.
Berger was acquitted and the tiny portion of cannabis found may have belonged to a guest or been planted by the police.
That they could only find 0.9 grams of a (now class B) drug, even if it was all William’s personal stash, is evidence against a pot head addiction that might undermine his professional or personal life.
Sounds like O’Brien was projecting personal animosity here.
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Agreed … and if Donal O’Brien was as he claims, a non-drinker, then someone like Berger, partaking of the ‘dreaded’ marijuana, must have seemed like a drug addled fiend to his narrow minded understanding.
Think about all the famous A-list actors who were total alcoholics … that addiction never had anything like the stigma of any kind of drug use … in fact it was seen by many as masculine and routine.
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Thanks for posting a link to the O’Brien interview. Is he still alive?
Berger’s career took a strange trajectory. He became a star of spaghetti westerns, but after the genre declined in the early 70s, he appeared in a number of gialli and Eurocrime films. Then he was in various weird artsploitation films and sexploitation films. In the 80s, he did any old rubbish for the money. A fine actor, but a sad waste of talent, who did not get the roles that he deserved.
Which of William Berger’s films are available on Blu Rays or at least on good DVD editions? I have a Multi Region Blu Ray player so it does not matter from which countries the Blu Rays or DVD’s are.