Bruno Freindlich
Bruno Arturovich Freindlich was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR. His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a famous actress.
Biography
A native of Saint Petersburg and of 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.
Death
Freindlich died in Saint Petersburg at 92 and was buried on 11 July 2002 at the Volkovo Cemetery.
Alexander Popov as Guglielmo MarconiMussorgsky as César CuiRimsky-Korsakov as RamenskyBelinsky as Professor ShcheplovidovDirk as NikitskiyHeroes of Shipka as Gyula AndrássyTwelfth Night as FesteTwo Captains as Ivan Pavlovich KorablyovSofya Kovalevskaya as Klaus fon ShvedlitsDon Quixote as dukeOctober Days as Georgy PolkovnikovFathers and Sons as Pavel KirsanovCain XVIII as Chief of Secret PoliceTwo Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show as BlinovDead Season as Valery PetrovichThunderstorm over Belaya as Alexander KolchakTchaikovsky as TurgenevThe Flight as baron Pyotr VrangelTimur and His Team as Dr. KolokolchikovA Declaration of Love as Filippok in old ageBattle of Moscow as Boris ShaposhnikovThe Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as PoolStalingrad as Boris Shaposhnikov