Bruno Freindlich

Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (10 October 19099 July 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He received the title of 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 (1951).

Partial filmography

Alexander Popov (1949) as Guglielmo Marconi Mussorgsky (1950) as César Cui Rimsky-Korsakov (1953) as Ramensky Belinsky (1953) as Professor Shcheplovidov Dirk (1954) as Nikitskiy Heroes of Shipka (1955) as Gyula Andrássy Twelfth Night (1955) as Feste Two Captains (1956) as Ivan Pavlovich Korablyov Sofya Kovalevskaya (1956) as Klaus fon Shvedlits Don Quixote (1957) as duke October Days (1958) as Georgy Polkovnikov Fathers and Sons (1959) as Pavel Kirsanov Cain XVIII (1963) as Chief of Secret Police Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show (1967) as Blinov Dead Season (1968) as Valery Petrovich Thunderstorm over Belaya (1968) as Alexander Kolchak Tchaikovsky (1970) as Turgenev The Flight (1971) as baron Pyotr Vrangel Timur and His Team (1977) as Dr. Kolokolchikov A Declaration of Love (1978) as Filippok in old age Battle of Moscow (1985, TV Series) as Boris Shaposhnikov The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986) as Pool Stalingrad (1990) as Boris Shaposhnikov (final film role)