DYNASTY: Fallon Meets Peter de Vilbis

Once a strong and feisty character, Pamela Sue Martin's Fallon was soon lobotomized into a victim.

In late 1983 she fell pray to a conniving European playboy played by Helmut Berger.

Rumor has it, the Austrian actor shocked the Dynasty cast and crew when he appeared on the set naked to film a love scene with Sue Martin.

Having to conform to more conservative American production, Berger is said not to have enjoyed his "Dynasty" stint very much.

Taken from the "Peter de Vilbis" (#4.09) episode of "Dynasty" (aired November 30, 1983).

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[mayena]

Maybe Helmut forgot that this was a television series not a film set. Maybe that might explain his disappointment when arriving in Hollywood.

[SaffronSugar]

WTF was that?! Ha Ha Ha. Some guy arrives at your hotel room with a money bouquet and tells you how rich he is. OK. .. unsuspicious,you let him in and he is followed by waiters with dinner,champagne and candels. Violinists sweep into the room behind them,playing a romantic tune that you've just noticed has been playing all along. This guy clearly has pockets jammed full of condoms. What do you do now? Hilarious!!!!

[BernardProfitendieu]

Berger had a fantasy of "Hollywood" being a place stuck in a 1930's studio publicity timewarp rather than the industry it is. He came thinking everyone worked a little during the day and then met up at each other's houses for the big party later at night (after a cocktail or two at the Trocadero or Brown Derby, natch). When he found out it wasn't like that, rather than acknowledge his own naivete, he carped about it every chance he got for the next 20 years.

[Cinemadaptation]

Even if he's beauty has decayed after 1975, Helmut was still handsome in in forties

[travis082185]

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[billyguns2]

The gorgeous Helmut Berger said of his work on DYNASTY that he "cried all the way to the set and laughed all the way to the bank." One of the great actors of our time and a discovery of Luchino Visconti, he didn't have the good fortune of another Visconti discovery, Alain Delon. It was also a shame that Visconti did not leave a will, which would have left his estate to Berger; did the Viscontis take revenge by denying Berger, Visconti's lifelong partner, his rightful legacy?

[homeric9]

There was a great deal of press in Europe at the time w/Helmet's stint on Dynasty and his love interest w/Fallon. An established actor in his own right in Europe and long known to be gay his appearance was heavily written about.