Urs Egger
Birth dateMarch 9, 1953
Birth placeBern
Death dateJanuary 18, 2020 (aged 66)
OccupationFilm director, television director, and journalist

Urs Egger (born 9 March 1953 in Bern – died 18 January 2020 in Berlin) was a Swiss film and television director.

From 1974 to 1997, he worked for the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Australian Cinema Papers as a correspondent from Los Angeles, responsible for reporting on the film industry. He visited the American Film Institute to become a director.

Egger died in January 2020 in Berlin, Germany, after suffering a long illness.

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