Viktor Dobrovolsky

Viktor Dobrovolsky
Born	Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolsky (1906-01-23)January 23, 1906 Odessa, Kherson Governorate, (now Ukraine)
Died	July 28, 1984(1984-07-28) (aged 78) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1922-1984

Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolsky (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Добровольский; Ukrainian: Вiктор Миколайович Добровольський; January 23, 1906– July 28, 1984) - Ukrainian Soviet 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 - Peter the Great
• 1940 - Makar Nechay
• 1944 - The Ural Front
• 1947 - Secret Agent
• 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 Soviet Union (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

External links

• Viktor Dobrovolsky at IMDb