Viktor Stanitsyn

Viktor Stanitsyn
Born	2 May 1897 Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire
Died	24 December 1976(1976-12-24) (aged 79) Moscow, Soviet Union
Other names	Viktor Yakovlevich Geze
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1932-1967 (film)

Viktor Stanitsyn (1897–1976) was a Ukrainian-born stage and film actor. 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.

Selected filmography

• The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)
• The Fall of Berlin (1950)
• The Lights of Baku (1950)
• The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1951)
• Anna Karenina (1953)
• Dead Souls (1960)

Stanitsyn's last cinematic role was of Ilya Rostov, in the four-part film series War and Peace (1966-67), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.

Bibliography

• Riley, John. Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film. I.B.Tauris, 2005.

External links

• Viktor Stanitsyn at IMDb