Lev Sverdlin

Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (; 16 November 1901 – 29 August 1969) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue.

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

Awards and honors

Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1938) Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1944) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1947) Two Stalin Prizes first degree (1947, 1951) Stalin Prize second degree (1949) 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"