Alexander Khvylya
Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya was a Ukrainian Soviet theater and film actor who played in The Diamond Arm, The End of Chyrva Kozyr, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and others. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich Bressem. Today the village is part of the Ivanopil rural community in Kostiantynivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast.
Career
In 1922, he graduated from the Vorovsky Drama Studio. Khvylya worked in the Zankovetska Music-Drama Theater from 1924 through 1926, then in Berezil that just relocated to Kharkiv from Kyiv. From 1934 until the German invasion of WWII, he worked in the Kharkiv Drama Theater of Shevchenko. Later, Khvylia relocated to Moscow, where he worked in the State theater of a cinema-actor.Plays
Dictatorship as HusakPerish of squadron as BaltiyetsThe Storm as KudryashSelected movies
- 1932 Ivan as Orator
- 1938 Karmeliuk as Karmeliuk
- 1941 Bohdan Khmelnytsky as Kobzar
- 1942 Oleksandr Parkhomenko as Parkhomenko
- 1946 The Liberated Earth as Kostenko
- 1946 The Vow as Semyon Budyonny
- 1948 Red Necktie as Vishnyakov
- 1948 The Young Guard as Shulga
- 1949 Konstantin Zaslonov as Secretary of Raion Committee
- 1949 Fairy Tales of Kuban as Denis Koren
- 1951 Taras Shevchenko as Mr. Barabash
- 1952 May Nights as the Head
- 1958 Over Tissa as Gromada, general of the border guards
- 1961 Evenings at a khutir near Dykanka as Chub
- 1962 Queen of the Gas Station as Priest, the bus passenger
- 1964 Jack Frost as Jack Frost
- 1968 The Diamond Arm as Boris Savelyevich