Leonid Obolensky Explained

Leonid Obolensky
Birth Date:	21 January 1902
Birth Place:	Arzamas, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast, USSR
Occupation:	actor
Years Active:	1919—1991
Spouse:	Irina Obolenskaya

Leonid Leonidovich Obolensky (Russian: Леонид Леонидович Оболенский; 21 January 1902 — 17 November 1991) was a Russian and Soviet actor. Born into the family of the Soviet diplomat Leonid Leonidovich Obolensky (1873−1930), he studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.^{[1] [2]}

Selected filmography

• On the Red Front (1920) as Red Army soldier^[3]
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) as dandy
• The Death Ray (1925) as Mayor Hard
• St. Jorgen's Day (1930) as film director
• A Very English Murder (1974) old lord Warbeck
• Walnut Bread (1978) as Andrius's grandfather
• The Casket of Maria Medici (1980) as Bertrand Marti
• Faktas (1981) as Alexandre

Notes and References

1. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 494-495.
2. https://zenon74.ru/krug-obsheniya/krepostnoi-knyaz Крепостной князь. Воспоминания о Леониде Оболенском
3. http://good-cinema.ru/?cat=1&id=5&type=2 Ваш уходящий объект Леонид Оболенский