Bruno Freindlich

Bruno Freindlich
Бруно Фрейндлих
Freindlich in 1949
Born	(1909-10-10)10 October 1909 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died	9 July 2002(2002-07-09) (aged 92) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1931–2000
Children	Alisa Freindlich

Bruno Arturovich Freindlich^a (10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor.¹² He received the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1974). His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a famous actress.³

A native of Saint Petersburg and of German ancestry,⁴ 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 has been 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, and Gayev in The Cherry Orchard, and 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).³

Freindlich died in Saint Petersburg at 92 and was buried on 11 July 2002 at the Volkovo Cemetery.⁵