Viktor Dobrovolsky
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Viktor Dobrovolsky | |
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Віктор Добровольський | |
Born | Odesa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire | January 23, 1906
Died | July 28, 1984[1] Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | (aged 78)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1922–1984 |
Viktor Mykolaiovych Dobrovolsky[a] (January 23, 1906 – July 28, 1984), was a Soviet and Ukrainian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1960).
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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