Gregori Chmara
Gregori Mikhailovich Chmara was a Ukrainian-born stage and film actor whose career spanned six decades.
Biography
Born in Poltava, Russian Empire, Chmara began his career in 1910 at the Moscow Art Theater. He made several films in Russia and following the Russian Revolution he went to Germany where he performed as a singer. After meeting the Danish actress Asta Nielsen, the two fell in love and lived together, but never married.In 1930, he began appearing in Polish and French films, as well as German films. His last film role was in the Stellio Lorenzi-directed French television film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky novel Crime and Punishment, filmed in 1970 and released in 1971. Chmara died in France in 1970.
Selected filmography
- Raskolnikow as Rodion Raskolnikow
- I.N.R.I. as Jesus Christ
- The House by the Sea as Enrico
- Hedda Gabler as Eilert Lövborg
- Joyless Street as Pjotr Orlow
- Athletes as Dr. Kürer
- Living Buddhas as Jebsun
- The Case of Prosecutor M as Poljarin
- Orient
- Rasputin as Grigori Rasputin
- A Strong Man
- The Man Who Murdered as Prince Cernuwicz
- The Black Hussar as Prince Potovski
- Man Without a Name
- Peter Voss, Thief of Millions as the pasha
- A Friend Will Come Tonight as the monocle-wearing German officer
- Mission in Tangier as the Russian singer
- Mannequins of Paris as Boris
- Elena and Her Men as Elena's servant
- A Bomb for a Dictator as the inquisitive passenger
- Mon pote le gitan as Grandpa
- Paris Does Not Exist as the old man