About Shalva Gambashidze
Lived 1899 – 1955 (aged 55). Shalva Gambashidze was a Russian actor and theatre director.
Shalva Ksenophontes dze Gambashidze (; 1 August 1899 – 18 May 1955) was a Georgian stage and film actor and theatre director. A pupil of Kote Marjanishvili and one of the founders of Soviet Georgian theatre, he was a leading actor of the Marjanishvili Theatre and was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1939.
Early life and education Gambashidze was born on 1 August 1899 in Zestaponi. After finishing the Kutaisi Real School in 1917, he trained from 1918 to 1920 at the Jabadari drama studio in Tbilisi. Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1941) Two Orders of Lenin (1946, 1950)
Personal life Gambashidze was married to the actress Ana Donzhashvili. He died in Tbilisi on 18 May 1955 and was buried at the Didube Pantheon.
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Who was Shalva Gambashidze?
Soviet actor (1899-1955)
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Shalva Gambashidze was born on 20 July 1899 in Zestaponi.
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Shalva Gambashidze died on 15 May 1955 in Tbilisi.
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Shalva Gambashidze was an actor and theatre director.
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Shalva Gambashidze was Russian.
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