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Lev Sverdlin

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Lev Sverdlin
Sverdlin in Wait for Me, 1943
Born
Lev Naumovich Sverdlin

(1901-11-16)16 November 1901
Died29 August 1969(1969-08-29) (aged 67)
Occupation(s)Actor, theater director and pedagogue
Years active1922–1969

Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (Russian: Лев Наумович Свердлин; 16 November 1901 – 29 August 1969) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue.[1][2]

Biography

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Lev Sverdlin was born in Astrakhan to a Jewish family. He served in the Red Army from 1919 to 1922, in the latter year he entered the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. He began to appear in movies from 1924.

From 1938 to 1941, he worked as an actor in the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, then in Mayakovsky Theatre from 1943 to 1969.

He died from pancreatic cancer in Moscow at the age of 67, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1936 By the Bluest of Seas Yusuf the fisherman
Circus Circus spectator
1937 The Defense of Volotchayevsk Colonel Ushijima
1939 Minin and Pozharsky Grigory Orlov
1940 Gorky 3: My Universities Tatar guard
1942 His Name Is Sukhe-Bator Damdin Sükhbaatar
1943 Nasreddin in Bukhara Nasreddin
Wait for Me Mikhail Weinstein
The Front Gaidar
David Bek Russian ambassador
1944 Days and Nights Colonel Protsenko
The Wedding Organ grinder
1945 Simple People Akbashev representative Uncredited; released in 1956
1946 The White Fang Matt
Cruiser 'Varyag' Japanese consul
1948 Tale of a True Man Naumov
1949 Alitet Leaves for the Hills Alitet
1950 Far from Moscow Mikhail Borisovich Zalkind
1954 A Tale of the Forest Giant Vladimir Vasilyevich
1955 The Road Beimbetov
1956 Different Fortunes Nikolai Kapitonovich Ognev
1960 It Was I Who Drew the Little Man Supreme Liar Voice
1963 The First Trolleybus Svetlana's father
All Remains to People General manager Uncredited
1967 The Elusive Avengers Semyon Budyonny

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 673–675. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ "Свердлин Лев Наумович | это... Что такое Свердлин Лев Наумович?". Словари И Энциклопедии На Академике.
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