[HIGHLIGHTS] Helmut Berger dies at 78, the iconic actor of Visconti's 'The Fall of the Gods'

Helmut Berger (1944, Bad Isch, Austria), icon of European cinema of the sixties and seventies, died this Thursday. The Austrian was discovered as an actor by Italian director Luchino Visconti, of whom he was a lover for years.

His life was marked by great successes in the cinema such as The Fall of the Gods (1969), The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1970) or Ash Wednesday ( 1973) In his autobiography, Ich, published in 1998, the actor claimed to have had sex with dozens of celebrities of the time.