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Viktor Stanitsyn

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Occupation
  
Actor

Spouse
  
Elena Ponsova

Children
  
Olga Stanitsina

Years active
  
1932-1967 (film)

Other name
  
Viktor Yakovlevich Geze

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Born
  
2 May 1897
Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire

Other names
  
Viktor Yakovlevich Geze

Died
  
24 December 1976, Moscow, Russia

Movies
  
War and Peace, The Fall of Berlin, The Battle of Stalingrad, Dead Souls, An Hour with Chekhov

Similar
  
Sergei Bondarchuk, Mikheil Chiaureli, Elena Ponsova, Aram Khachaturian

Viktor Stanitsyn (1897–1976) was a Ukrainian-born stage and film actor. He appeared in a number of Soviet era films including portraying Winston Churchill in The Lights of Baku (1950) as well as several other films.

Selected filmography

  • The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) as Winston Churchill/General Fedor Tolbukhin
  • The Fall of Berlin (1950) as as Winston Churchill
  • The Lights of Baku (1950) as as Winston Churchill
  • The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1951) as Winston Churchill
  • Anna Karenina (1953) as Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky
  • Dead Souls (1960) as Governor

    • Stanitsyn's last cinematic role was of Ilya Rostov, in the four-part film series War and Peace (1966-67), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.

    References

    Viktor Stanitsyn Wikipedia
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