Lev Sverdlin

Lev Sverdlin
Sverdlin in Wait for Me, 1943
Born	Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (1901-11-16)16 November 1901 Astrakhan, Russian Empire
Died	29 August 1969(1969-08-29) (aged 67) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, theater director and pedagogue
Years active	1922–1969

Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (Russian: Лев Наумович Свердлин; 16 November 1901 – 29 August 1969) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Lev Sverdlin was born in Astrakhan to a Jewish family. He served in the Red Army from 1919 to 1922, in the latter year he entered the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. He began to appear in movies from 1924.

From 1938 to 1941, he worked as an actor in the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, then in Mayakovsky Theatre from 1943 to 1969.

He died from pancreatic cancer in Moscow at the age of 67, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1936	By the Bluest of Seas	Yusuf the fisherman
1936	Circus	Circus spectator
1937	The Defense of Volotchayevsk	Colonel Ushijima
1939	Minin and Pozharsky	Grigory Orlov
1940	Gorky 3: My Universities	Tatar guard
1942	His Name Is Sukhe-Bator	Damdin Sükhbaatar
1943	Nasreddin in Bukhara	Nasreddin
	Wait for Me	Mikhail Weinstein
	The Front	Gaidar
	David Bek	Russian ambassador
1944	Days and Nights	Colonel Protsenko
1944	The Wedding	Organ grinder
1945	Simple People	Akbashev representative	Uncredited; released in 1956
1946	The White Fang	Matt
1946	Cruiser 'Varyag'	Japanese consul
1948	Tale of a True Man	Naumov
1949	Alitet Leaves for the Hills	Alitet
1950	Far from Moscow	Mikhail Borisovich Zalkind
1954	A Tale of the Forest Giant	Vladimir Vasilyevich
1955	The Road	Beimbetov
1956	Different Fortunes	Nikolai Kapitonovich Ognev
1960	It Was I Who Drew the Little Man	Supreme Liar	Voice
1963	The First Trolleybus	Svetlana's father
1963	All Remains to People	General manager	Uncredited
1967	The Elusive Avengers	Semyon Budyonny

Awards and honors

Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1938)
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1944)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1947)
Three Stalin Prizes (1947, 1949, 1951)
People's Artist of the USSR (1954)
Order of Lenin (1967)
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

References

^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 673–675. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ "Свердлин Лев Наумович | это... Что такое Свердлин Лев Наумович?". Словари И Энциклопедии На Академике.