Viktor Stanitsyn

Viktor Stanitsyn PAU
Born	2 May 1897 Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire
Died	24 December 1976(1976-12-24) (aged 79) Moscow, Soviet Union
Other names	Viktor Yakovlevich Geze
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1932-1967 (film)

Viktor Yakovlevich Stanitsyn (Template:Lang-ru; 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.

Biography

Born April 20 (May 2) in 1897 in Yekaterinoslav (now — Dnipro, Ukraine).

Selected filmography

• The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) as Winston Churchill/General Fedor Tolbukhin
• The Fall of Berlin (1950) as Winston Churchill
• The Lights of Baku (1950) 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.

Bibliography

• Riley, John. Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film. Tauris, 2005.

External links

• Viktor Stanitsyn at IMDb