Viktor Dobrovolsky Explained

Viktor Dobrovolsky
Birth Name:Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolsky
Birth Date:January 23, 1906
Birth Place:Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Date:[1]
Death Place:Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:Actor
Years Active:1922–1984

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).

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

Honors

Notes and References

  1. http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/6110/bio Добровольский Виктор Николаевич