Bruno Freindlich

Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (Russian: Бруно Артурович Фрейндлих; 10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002[1]) was a Soviet/Russian actor of German ancestry who became People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a notable actress.[2]

Bruno Freindlich
Born
Bruno Arturovich Freindlich

(1909-10-10)10 October 1909
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died9 July 2002(2002-07-09) (aged 92)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Occupationactor
Years active1931–1989
ChildrenAlisa Freindlich

Biography

A native of Saint Petersburg, 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 was 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, Gayev in The Cherry Orchard, Baron in The Lower Depths. One of the dearest roles of Freindlich, which he played for many years, was the part of writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev in the play Elegy. For the role of Guglielmo Marconi in the propaganda film Alexander Popov he won the Stalin Prize (1951).

Death

Freindlich died in Petersburg at the age of 92 and was buried on 11 July 2002 at the Volkovo Cemetery.

Partial filmography
  • Alexander Popov (1949) - Marconi
  • Mussorgsky (1950) - Cesar Cui
  • Rimsky-Korsakov (1953) - Ramensky
  • Belinsky (1953)
  • Kortik (1954) - Nikitskiy
  • Heroes of Shipka (1955)
  • Twelfth Night (1955) - Feste
  • Dva kapitana (1956)
  • Raznye sudby (1956)
  • Sofya Kovalevskaya (1956) - Klaus fon Shvedlits
  • Don Quixote (1957) - Gertsog
  • V dni oktyabrya (1958) - Polkovnikov
  • Ottsy i deti (1959) - Pavel Kirsanov
  • Cain XVIII (1963) - Chief of Secret Police
  • Poka zhiv chelovek (1963) - Aleksandr Stepanovich
  • Gosudarstvennyy prestupnik (1964) - Dore / Viktor Kulikov
  • Dva bileta na dnevnoy seans (1967) as Blinov
  • Konets Saturna (1968) as Kanaris
  • Dead Season (1968) as Valery Petrovich
  • Groza nad beloy (1968) as Kolchak
  • Nashi znakomyye (1969) as Employment Service Worker
  • Tchaikovsky (1970) as Turgenev
  • The Flight (1971) as baron Pyotr Vrangel
  • Gorod pod lipami (Epizody geroicheskoy oborony) (1971)
  • Dela davno minuvshikh dney... (1972)
  • Opoznanie (1973) as Holz
  • Menya eto ne kasaetsya (1976) as Kirill Pavlovich Klivenskiy
  • Timur i yego komanda (1977) as doktor Kolokolchikov
  • Obyasneniye v lyubvi (1978) as Starik
  • Ya - aktrisa (1980) as Vladimir Davydov
  • Dve glavy iz semeynoy khroniki (1983)
  • Battle of Moscow (1985, TV Series) - Boris Mikhailovitch Shaposhnikov
  • Strannaya istoriya doktora Dzhekila i mistera Khayda (1986)
  • Vremya letat (1987)
  • Stalingrad (1990) - Marshal Shaposhnikov (final film role)

References
  1. Умер Бруно Фрейндлих
  2. Большая советская энциклопедия


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