Bruno Freindlich Explained

Bruno Freindlich
Birth Name:Bruno Arturovich Freindlich
Birth Date:10 October 1909
Birth Place:Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Death Place:Saint Petersburg, Russia
Occupation:Actor
Years Active:1931–2000
Children:Alisa Freindlich

Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (Russian: Бруно Артурович Фрейндлих; 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

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

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

Partial filmography

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=6353 Умер Бруно Фрейндлих
  2. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 228–229.
  3. http://bse.sci-lib.com/article117555.html Большая советская энциклопедия