Bruno Freindlich

Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (Russian: Бруно Артурович Фрейндлих; 10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002[1]) was a Soviet and Russian actor.[2] People's Artist of the USSR (1974). His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a famous actress.[3]

Bruno Freindlich
Born
Bruno Arturovich Freindlich

(1909-10-10)10 October 1909
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died9 July 2002(2002-07-09) (aged 92)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
OccupationActor
Years active1931–2000
ChildrenAlisa Freindlich

Biography

A native of Saint Petersburg and of German ancestry, Bruno Freindlich began his career as an actor performing for audiences of children. For two years he worked at the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama. Since 1948, he was a leading actor of the former Alexandrine Theatre. Among his stage works were Khlestakov in The Government Inspector and Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsev's staging of Shakespeare's play. He played the roles of Peer Gynt, père Goriot, Gayev in The Cherry Orchard, Baron in The Lower Depths. One of the dearest roles of Freindlich, which he played for many years, was the part of writer Ivan Turgenev in the play Elegy. For the role of Guglielmo Marconi in the propaganda film Alexander Popov he won the Stalin Prize (1951).

Death

Freindlich died in Petersburg at the age of 92 and was buried on 11 July 2002 at the Volkovo Cemetery.

Partial filmography

References
  1. Умер Бруно Фрейндлих
  2. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 228–229. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  3. Большая советская энциклопедия
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