Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (Russian: Лев Наумович Свердлин; 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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1936By the Bluest of SeasYusuf the fisherman
CircusCircus spectator
1937The Defense of VolotchayevskColonel Ushijima
1939Minin and PozharskyGrigory Orlov
1940Gorky 3: My UniversitiesTatar guard
1942His Name Is Sukhe-BatorDamdin Sükhbaatar
1943Nasreddin in BukharaNasreddin
Wait for MeMikhail Weinstein
The FrontGaidar
David BekRussian ambassador
1944Days and NightsColonel Protsenko
The WeddingOrgan grinder
1945Simple PeopleAkbashev representativeUncredited; released in 1956
1946The White FangMatt
Cruiser 'Varyag'Japanese consul
1948Tale of a True ManNaumov
1949Alitet Leaves for the HillsAlitet
1950Far from MoscowMikhail Borisovich ZalkindStalin Prize first degree (1951)
1954A Tale of the Forest GiantVladimir Vasilyevich
1955The RoadBeimbetov
1956Different FortunesNikolai Kapitonovich Ognev
1960It Was I Who Drew the Little ManSupreme LiarVoice
1963The First TrolleybusSvetlana's father
All Remains to PeopleGeneral managerUncredited
1967The Elusive AvengersSemyon Budyonny

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