Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (; 10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1974). His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a famous actress.
Biography
A native of Saint Petersburg and of German ancestry, 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 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) as Guglielmo Marconi
Mussorgsky (1950) as César Cui
Rimsky-Korsakov (1953) as Ramensky
Belinsky (1953) as Professor Shcheplovidov
Dirk (1954) as Nikitskiy
Heroes of Shipka (1955) as Gyula Andrássy
Twelfth Night (1955) as Feste
Two Captains (1956) as Ivan Pavlovich Korablyov
Sofya Kovalevskaya (1956) as Klaus fon Shvedlits
Don Quixote (1957) as duke
October Days (1958) as Georgy Polkovnikov
Fathers and Sons (1959) as Pavel Kirsanov
Cain XVIII (1963) as Chief of Secret Police
Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show (1967) as Blinov
Dead Season (1968) as Valery Petrovich
Thunderstorm over Belaya (1968) as Alexander Kolchak
Tchaikovsky (1970) as Turgenev
The Flight (1971) as baron Pyotr Vrangel
Timur and His Team (1977) as Dr. Kolokolchikov
A Declaration of Love (1978) as Filippok in old age
Battle of Moscow (1985, TV Series) as Boris Shaposhnikov
The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986) as Pool
Stalingrad (1990) as Boris Shaposhnikov (final film role)
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Biography
1909 births
2002 deaths
Male actors from Saint Petersburg
Russian State Institute of Performing Arts alumni
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the USSR
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)