Viktor Dobrovolsky
Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolsky (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Добровольский; Ukrainian: Віктор Миколайович Добровольський; January 23, 1906 – July 28, 1984), was a Soviet and Ukrainian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1960).
Viktor Dobrovolsky | |
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| Born | Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolsky January 23, 1906 Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | July 28, 1984 (aged 78)[1] |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1922-1984 |
Biography
In 1928, he graduated from the drama school at Odessa drama theatre. In 1922, he began his stage career. Worked in theatres of Odessa, Kharkiv, Donetsk. In 1944-1956 — actor in the troupe of Ukrainian music and drama theatre named after Ivan Franko in Kiev. In the years 1964-1984 — the leading actor of the Kiev drama theatre named after Lesya Ukrainka. Since 1926 were in the movie. A member of the Union of cinematographers of the Ukrainian SSR.
Died in Kiev on July 28, 1984. He was buried on Baikove Cemetery.
Selected filmography
- 1926 - Taras Shevchenko
- 1938 - Pyotr pervyy
- 1940 - Makar Nechay
- 1944 - The Ural Front
- 1947 - Secret Agent
- 1951 - Bountiful Summer
- 1953 - Adventure in Odessa
- 1954 - Komandir korablya
- 1956 - Trista let tomu...
- 1959 - Nebo Zovyot
Honors
- Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1943)
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1948)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1960)
- Stalin Prize second degree (1951)
- State Prize of the USSR named after Taras Shevchenko (1983) - for the creation of images of Soviet contemporaries in the performances on stage KATRD name L.Ukrainki
- Order of Lenin (1951)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966)
- Order of Cyril and Methodius I degree (Bulgaria