Alexandr Chvylja

Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya (born Bressem, , ; 15 July 1905 – 17 October 1976) 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 (23 October 1963).

Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne (Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich Bressem.

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 World War II, 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 (Ivan Mykytenko) as Husak Perish of squadron (Oleksandr Korniychuk) as Baltiyets The Storm (Alexander Ostrovsky) as Kudryash Selected movies 1932 Ivan (Alexander Dovzhenko) as Orator (first role in movies) 1938 Karmeliuk (Georgiy Tasin) as Karmeliuk 1941 Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Ihor Savchenko) as Kobzar 1942 Oleksandr Parkhomenko (Leonid Lukov) as Parkhomenko 1946 The Liberated Earth as Kostenko 1946 The Vow as Semyon Budyonny 1948 Red Necktie as Vishnyakov 1948 The Young Guard (Sergei Gerasimov) as Shulga (his scenes later were cut out) 1949 Konstantin Zaslonov as Secretary of Raion Committee (Stalin Prize, 1950) 1949 Fairy Tales of Kuban (Ivan Pyryev) as Denis Koren 1951 Taras Shevchenko (Ihor Savchenko) 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 (Aleksandr Rou) as Chub 1962 Queen of the Gas Station as Priest, the bus passenger 1964 Jack Frost (Aleksandr Rou) as Jack Frost 1968 The Diamond Arm (Leonid Gaidai) as Boris Savelyevich