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Bruno Freindlich

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Bruno Freindlich
Бруно Фрейндлих
Born(1909-10-10)October 10, 1909
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
DiedJuly 9, 2002(2002-07-09) (aged 92)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
OccupationActor
Years active1931–2000
ChildrenAlisa Freindlich

Bruno Arturovich Freindlich[a] (10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002)[1] was a Soviet and Russian actor.[2] People's Artist of the USSR (1974). His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a famous actress.[3]

Biography

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A native of Saint Petersburg and German ancestry, Bruno Freindlich began his career as an actor, performing for audiences of children. For two years he worked at the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama. Since 1948, he has been a leading actor of the former Alexandrine Theatre. Among his stage works were Khlestakov in The Government Inspector and Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsev's staging of Shakespeare's play. He played the roles of Peer Gynt, père Goriot, and Gayev in The Cherry Orchard, and Baron in The Lower Depths. One of the dearest roles of Freindlich, which he played for many years, was the part of writer Ivan Turgenev in the play Elegy. For the role of Guglielmo Marconi in the propaganda film Alexander Popov he won the Stalin Prize (1951).

Death

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Freindlich died in Saint Petersburg at 92 and was buried on 11 July 2002 at the Volkovo Cemetery.

Partial filmography

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Notes

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  1. ^
    • Russian: Бруно Артурович Фрейндлих, romanizedBruno Arturovich Freyndlikh
    • German: Bruno Arturowitsch Freindlich

References

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  1. ^ Умер Бруно Фрейндлих
  2. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 228–229. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  3. ^ Большая советская энциклопедия
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