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Soviet actor (1897–1976) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viktor Yakovlevich Stanitsyn (Russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Стани́цын; 1897–1976) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.[1] 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.
Viktor was born on May 2 in 1897 in Yekaterinoslav (now — Dnipro, Ukraine).
He rarely acted in movies. He played in the films: "The Guilty Without Guilt" (1945), "Dead Souls" (1960, the governor), "War and Peace" (1967, Ilya Andreevich Rostov), in the Ukrainian film "The Third Strike" (1948, F. I. Tolbukhin, army general), etc.
The actor and director V. Stanytsyn's great contribution to cinema and theater was recognized by state awards.
He died on December 23, 1976, in Moscow. He was buried at the Vvedenskoye (German) Cemetery.
Stanitsyn's last cinematic role was of Ilya Rostov, in the four-part film series War and Peace (1966–67), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.
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