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 Year Title Role Notes1936By the Bluest of SeasYusuf the fishermanCircusCircus spectator1937The Defense of VolotchayevskColonel Ushijima1939Minin and PozharskyGrigory Orlov1940Gorky 3: My UniversitiesTatar guard1942His Name Is Sukhe-BatorDamdin Sükhbaatar1943Nasreddin in BukharaNasreddinWait for MeMikhail WeinsteinThe FrontGaidarDavid BekRussian ambassador1944Days and NightsColonel ProtsenkoThe WeddingOrgan grinder1945Simple PeopleAkbashev representativeUncredited; released in 19561946The White FangMattCruiser 'Varyag'Japanese consul1948Tale of a True ManNaumov1949Alitet Leaves for the HillsAlitet1950Far from MoscowMikhail Borisovich ZalkindStalin Prize first degree (1951)1954A Tale of the Forest GiantVladimir Vasilyevich1955The RoadBeimbetov1956Different FortunesNikolai Kapitonovich Ognev1960It Was I Who Drew the Little ManSupreme LiarVoice1963The First TrolleybusSvetlana's fatherAll Remains to PeopleGeneral managerUncredited1967The Elusive AvengersSemyon Budyonny
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"
See also Vsevolod Meyerhold State Theatre
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