Viktor Stanitsyn
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Born | 2 May 1897 Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire |
Died | 24 December 1976 | (aged 79)
Other names | Viktor Yakovlevich Geze |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1932-1967 (film) |
Viktor Yakovlevich Stanitsyn (Russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Стани́цын; 1897–1976) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.[1] He appeared in a number of Soviet era films including portraying Winston Churchill in The Lights of Baku (1950) as well as several other films.
Biography[]
Viktor was born on May 2 in 1897 in Yekaterinoslav (now — Dnipro, Ukraine).
Selected filmography[]
- The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) as Winston Churchill / General Fedor Tolbukhin
- The Fall of Berlin (1950) as Winston Churchill
- The Lights of Baku (1950) as Winston Churchill
- The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1951) as Winston Churchill
- Anna Karenina (1953) as Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky
- Dead Souls (1960) as Governor
Stanitsyn's last cinematic role was of Ilya Rostov, in the four-part film series War and Peace (1966–67), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.
References[]
- ^ Riley p.73
Bibliography[]
- Riley, John. Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film. Tauris, 2005.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1897 births
- 1976 deaths
- Ukrainian male film actors
- Actors from Dnipro
- People's Artists of the USSR
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- Honored Artists of the RSFSR
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Moscow Art Theatre School faculty
- Ukrainian actor stubs
- European actor stubs
- Soviet actor stubs