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).

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

References[]

External links[]

• Viktor Dobrovolsky at IMDb
• Viktor Dobrovolsky at Find a Grave