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- Actor
- Additional Crew
Michael Mark was born on 15 March 1886 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Wasp Woman (1959) and The Great Flamarion (1945). He died on 3 February 1975 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidor Baline on May 11, 1888 in Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire. Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue Skies", "White Christmas") author and publisher, he came to the United States at age 5 and was educated in New York's public schools. His earliest musical education was from his father, a cantor. He earned Honorary degrees from Bucknell University and Temple University. Beginning his career as a song-plugger for publisher Harry von Tilzer, Berlin worked as a singing waiter in Chinatown. In 1909, he was hired as a staff lyricist by the Ted Snyder Company, and became a partner to that firm four years later.
In 1910, he began doing vaudeville appearances in the United States and abroad, and also appeared with Snyder in the Broadway musical "Up and Down Broadway", that ran for 72 performances. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, and served on its first board of directors between 1914-1918. Berlin enlisted the United States Army infantry in World War I, and was a sergeant at Camp Upton, New York. After the war, he established his own public-relations firm, and in 1921, he built the 1025-seat Music Box Theatre (at 239 W. 45th Street, New York) with Sam H. Harris. After Harris' death in 1941, Berlin assumed full ownership and the theatre remains a Broadway institution to this day.
Among his many awards was the Medal for Merit for his 1942 all-soldier show "This Is the Army", which toured the United States, Europe and South Pacific battle zones; all proceeds were assigned to Army Emergency Relief and other service agencies. Berlin was also a member of the French Legion of Honor and held the Congressional Medal of Honor for "God Bless America", the proceeds from which went to the God Bless America Fund. His songs were sung by Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Dick Powell, Alice Faye and many others. Irving Berlin died at the age of 101 of natural causes on September 22, 1989 in New York City.- Actor
- Writer
- Manager
Gary Vaynerchuk was born on 14 November 1975 in Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Babruysk, Belarus]. He is an actor and writer, known for The Adventures of Lil' Vee (2019), Dirt! The Movie (2009) and Fate of a Sport (2022).- Irina Medvedeva was born on 14 August 1982 in Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Babruysk, Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Chelovek niotkuda (2023), Tarif Novogodniy (2008) and The Jungle (2012). She has been married to Guillaume Boucher since 5 July 2018. They have two children. She was previously married to Ruslan Alekhno.
- Actor
- Writer
Andrey Sviridov was born on 27 March 1975 in Mogilev, Mogilevskaya oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He is an actor and writer, known for Dark Planet (2008), Chinese Zodiac (2012) and I'm Staying (2007).- Director
- Writer
- Art Department
Viktor Turov was born on 25 October 1936 in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. Viktor was a director and writer, known for Lyudi na bolote (1982), Vremya ee synovey (1974) and Dykhanie grozy (1983). Viktor died on 31 October 1996 in Minsk, Belarus.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Modest Altschuler was born on 15 February 1873 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was a composer, known for Buffalo Bill Rides Again (1947), It's All in Your Mind (1938) and Song of My Heart (1948). He died on 12 September 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Additional Crew
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (8 July 1909 - 2 July 1989) was a Soviet Belarusian communist politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957-1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985-1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1988. In the 1940s Western pundits called him Mr Nyet ("Mr No") or "Grim Grom", because of his frequent use of the Soviet veto in the United Nations Security Council.- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Boris Laskin was born on 22 July 1914 in Orsha, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vitebsk Voblast, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for Carnival Night (1956), Rodnye berega (1943) and Devushka s gitaroy (1958). He died on 22 August 1983 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Helena Zarembina was born on 6 May 1895 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. She was an actress, known for Pani minister tanczy (1937), Straszny dwór (1936) and Zabawka (1933). She died on 9 January 1960 in Czestochowa, Slaskie, Poland.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Polish stage and film actress, singer, cabaret performer and creative director, theatre director and costume designer, editorialist. Successfully debuted on film in 1935 (the song she performed was available on soundtrack album released by Syrena Record in 1936) while she was still studying acting under Aleksander Zelwerowicz (who was very reluctant to allow his students to start their acting career before they finish school). Graduated Panstwowy Instytut Sztuki Teatralnej (State Institute of Theatrical Arts, Warsaw) in 1936. Debuted on stage in Polish Theatre in Warsaw in 1936 (with Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers", as Mary), where she performed until the war (see: other works). Her roles were a proof of her versatility, as she would find herself both in drama and comedy.
The production of her 9th movie, "Szczescie przychodzi kiedy chce" (directed by Mieczyslaw Krawicz ) was canceled by the outbreak of World War 2.
As most of the actors who boycotted German-controlled theaters during the war, she had to find another way to make a living: she worked as waitress in "Na Antresoli" café, this also meant giving performances alongside other artists. That place was also a contact point for Polish resistance. She was taken hostage by Gestapo and held in the Pawiak prison (her husband Zbigniew Sawan ended up in Auschwitz camp) as a result of German retaliatory action for the Polish resistance assassination of the Nazi spy Igo Sym, her co-star from Zlota maska (1940) (she also rejected his offers to start working for German UFA, at that time dealing mostly with pro-Nazi propaganda movies).
After the war she started performing in Teatr Maly in Warsaw alongside her husband, later also in Miniatura Theatre in Warsaw and Teatr Nowy. They moved next (1947-1949) to Polish Theatre in Szczecin, where Sawan would take the manager seat. The couple returned to Warsaw in 1949 and started working in Ludowy Theatre: Sawan again as manager, while she started directing plays. She had spent the years 1951-1953 in Buffo revue theatre, what launched her career as cabaret star.
In 1956 she created the "Wagabunda" cabaret, which gathered such actors and satirists as Edward Dziewonski, Jacek Fedorowicz, Bogumil Kobiela, Maria Koterbska, Wieslaw Michnikowski, Stanislaw Tym, Jeremi Przybora, Mieczyslaw Wojnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, Marian Zalucki. Popular in Poland, it also toured USA (1957), Canada, Great Britain, Israel and Czechoslovakia. She was its art director and also performed sung poetry or versions of popular songs with Polish lyrics. During that time (1961) she made a guest appearance in Regnier's play "Les Petites Tetes" in Comedy Theatre, Warsaw. After "Wagabunda" dissolved in 1968 she had problem finding work in Warsaw theaters despite her experience and fame. Finally she found her way to the stage of Syrena Theatre in Warsaw, where she played in revues in 1974 through 1981. After W obronie wlasnej (1982) she was to star in another movie, but it was stuck in a pre-production limbo.
During her career she also worked with Polish public broadcaster Polskie Radio, taking part in concertos and other broadcasts. She appeared in radio dramas already in late 1930s; listeners of Program 1 station could still catch her in 1980s & 1990s reading her own editorials on cultural news, displaying literary and satirical talent.
People she worked with describe her as a hard-working and demanding professional, elegant and well mannered, brilliant and with a great sense of humor.- Pyotr Aleynikov was born on 12 July 1914 in village Krivel, Mogilev uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Shklow Raion, Mahilyow Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Great Glinka (1946), Seven Brave Men (1936) and Shumi, gorodok (1940). He died on 9 June 1965 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Natalya Podolskaya was born on 20 May 1982 in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Nash papa - Ded Moroz!, Natalia Podolskaya: Nobody Hurt No One (2005) and Novogodnyaya SMSka (2011). She has been married to Vladimir Presnyakov since 5 June 2010. They have one child.- Actor
John Trebach was born on 25 August 1900 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor. He died on 10 February 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
- Production Manager
- Writer
Marek M. Libkow was born on 15 March 1890 in Mogilev Region, Belarus. Marek M. is known for Sportowiec mimo woli (1940), Pani minister tanczy (1937) and Mocny czlowiek (1929).- Writer
- Actor
Nathan Zarkhi was born in 1900 in Orsha, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vitebsk Voblast, Belarus]. He was a writer and actor, known for Pobeda zhenshchiny (1927), Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927) and Osobnyak Golubinykh (1924). He died on 17 July 1935 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Nina Zorskaya was born on 26 February 1918 in village Malyushino, Western Oblast, RSFSR [now Krasnapolle Raion, Mogilev Region, Belarus]. She was an actress, known for Wait for Me (1943), Delo Artamonovykh (1941) and Obyknovennoe chudo (1965). She died on 6 September 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Writer
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Mikhail Volpin was born on 20 December 1902 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was a writer, known for The Horsemen (1950), Spring (1947) and Through Fire, Water and... Trumpets (1968). He was married to Irina Glebovna Barteneva. He died on 21 July 1988 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Eugenia John was born on 30 September 1922 in Mogilev, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic [now Mogilev, Mogilev Region, Belarus]. She was married to Mieczyslaw Czechowicz and Jerzy Sliwinski. She died on 2 February 1995 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Eduard Kolmanovskiy was born on 9 January 1923 in Mogilev, Gomel Governorate, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Mogilev Region, Belarus]. He was a composer, known for The Cosmonaut (2013), Ulitsa bez kontsa (1973) and Po semeynym obstoyatelstvam (1978). He died on 27 July 1994 in Moscow, Russia.- Eugeniu Ureche was born on 21 March 1917 in Mogilev, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mogilev Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Lyana (1955), Melodii moldovenesti (1955) and Trevozhnyy rassvet (1984). He died on 27 January 2005 in Chisinau, Moldova.
- Janusz Dziewonski was born on 12 August 1890 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Glos pustyni (1932), Przedwiosnie (1928) and Ponad snieg (1929). He died on 6 December 1953 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Mikhail Parkhomenka was born on the 5th of March 1992 in family of a teacher and a doctor in Mogilev, Belarus. In childhood was very interested in music and photography, learned playing guitar. After finishing school, he entered Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. On his second year participated video courses at university which gave him basic skills of cinematography and video editing. At the same time he started traveling and making travel-videos which won prizes in thematic competitions. Made a documentary about Norway. On his last year at university he started working as an engineer and a programmer. After graduating from university in 2014 he continued his creative activities: took part in competitions, grants and festivals. In addition he started improving his scriptwriter and producer and cinematography skills.
In January 2015 Mikhail gathered a team and made his first short movie "Deliver it personally" which took 3rd place in international competition "How to make a movie in 60 hours". In May 2015 he created "One hundred seventeen" which took 1st place on the second part of that competition.
In June 2015 Mikhail decided to quit his IT job in order to devote himself entirely to cinematography and film making.
In June 2015 he won a grant for making his another movie "Relay Race" when taking part in Kinosprint competition. Film production took him half a year and at the end movie won Grand Prix.
Filmography:
Delivered Personally (2015) The Hundred Seventeenth (2015) _Relay Race (2016)_- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
Lev Indenbom was born on 6 June 1903 in Mstislavl, Mstislavl uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mstsislaw, Mogilev Region, Belarus]. Lev was an assistant director and production manager, known for Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944), The Girls (1962) and Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante (1956). Lev died on 28 April 1970 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Veronika Borisenko was born on 16 January 1918 in Stolbun, Mogilev Governorate, Russia [now Gomel Oblast, Belarus]. She was an actress, known for The Snow Maiden (1952) and Anna Snegina (1969). She died on 7 September 1995 in Moscow, Russia.
- Tatyana Govorkova was born on 22 August 1900 in Gomel, Gomel uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Dobrush District, Gomel Region, Belarus]. She was an actress, known for The Winner (1947), Vozdushnyy izvozchik (1943) and Tanker 'Derbent' (1941). She died on 25 August 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Leonid Rakhlenko was born on 6 September 1907 in Terekhovka, Gomel uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Dobrush District, Gomel Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Kto smeyotsya poslednim (1955), Poleskaya legenda (1957) and Vesenniye grozy (1960). He died on 9 March 1986 in Minsk, Minsk Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Minsk Region, Belarus].
- David Pinski was born on 5 April 1872 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was a writer, known for The Singing Blacksmith (1938) and Di mishpokhe Tsvi (1916). He died on 11 August 1959 in Haifa, Israel.
- Director
- Editor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vladimir Sukhobokov was born on 23 July 1910 in Rogachyov, Rogachyov uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rahachow, Gomel Region, Belarus]. He was a director and editor, known for Vsyo dlya vas (1965), Volki i ovtsy (1953) and Nochnoy patrul (1957). He died on 12 June 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Zygmunt Boncza-Tomaszewski was born on 16 January 1905 in Marysienka, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Sublokator (1966) and Rola (1971). He died on 15 October 1976 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Production Designer
- Writer
- Art Department
Mordecai Gorelik, who was brought to the United States from Russia at the age of five, deserted his father's lumberyard, becoming, eventually, an internationally-known stage and film designer, instructor, and theatre historian. He is the author of a classic textbook, "New Theatres for Old," and of innumerable other writings, including a contribution to the Encyclopedia Britannica. His work as a designer of professional plays for The Group Theatre on Broadway, for the Actors Laboratory Theatre, Hollywood, and for other stage managements, has been varied by jobs as production designer of American and foreign films, and by official stage research abroad. He has represented the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright Grant in theatre studies throughout Europe (Eastern as well as Western) and as far abroad as Japan, India, Israel, and Australia. At the end of the War, in 1945-46, he served as designer and director for the Biarritz American University, France, under U.S. Army auspices; and in 1949 he was an Expert Consultant in theatre for the American Military Government in Germany. From 1960 to 1972, as Research Professor in Theatre, he carried on class work and staged plays at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. As an Emeritus Professor on theater research, his work was anthologized in Best Short Plays of the World Theater' (1976).- Actor
- Additional Crew
Pavel Molchanov was born on 14 March 1902 in Ivolsk, Gomel uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Buda-Kashalyowa District, Gomel Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Nezabyvaemyy 1919 god (1951), Woman's World (1932) and You Should Value Love (1960). He died on 24 February 1977 in Minsk, Minsk Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Minsk Region, Belarus].- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Art Department
Vladimir Agranov was born on 27 December 1918 in Zhlobin, Mogilev Governorate, Belarusian People's Republic [now Gomel Oblast, Belarus]. He was a production designer and art director, known for Golubaya strela (1959), Lisova pisnya (1961) and Adventure in Odessa (1953). He died on 1 May 1995 in Kiev, Ukraine.- Composer
- Music Department
Isaak Lyuban was born on 23 March 1906 in Cherikov, Cherikov uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Cherykaw, Cherykaw Raion, Mogilev Region, Belarus]. Isaak was a composer, known for Poleskaya legenda (1957), Schastye nado berech (1958) and Novyy dom (1947). Isaak died on 7 November 1975 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Actor
- Director
Henryk Szletynski was born on 27 February 1903 in Gomel, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor and director, known for Television Theater (1953), Smarkula (1963) and Naprawde wczoraj (1963). He died on 15 September 1996 in Konstancin-Jeziorna, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Cinematographer
Nikolai Lukanyov was born on 8 July 1929 in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He was a cinematographer, known for Svet v okne (1960), Ulitsa molodosti (1958) and Chudak-chelovek (1962). He died on 12 May 2004 in Odessa, Ukraine.- Director
- Writer
Nikolai Sadkovich was born on 21 January 1907 in Orsha, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vitebsk Voblast, Belarus]. She was a director and writer, known for Schastlivyye koltsa (1929), Pesn o pervoy devushke (1930) and Mayskaya noch (1938). She died on 16 August 1968.- Writer
- Director
- Editorial Department
Iosif Berkhin was born on 15 November 1904 in Cherikov, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Cherykaw, Mogilyov Oblast, Belarus). Iosif was a writer and director, known for Chelovek za bortom (1931), Litsom k litsu (1931) and Veter v litso (1930). Iosif died in 1964.- Valentin Yantsat was born on 21 November 1905 in Gomel, Gomel uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Gomel Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Young Pushkin (1937), Na odnoy planete (1966) and Shestdesyat dney (1943). He died on 20 August 1967 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- Vladimir Gubarev was born on 26 August 1938 in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, USSR. He was a writer, known for Korabl prisheltsev (1986), Sarkofagen (1988) and Szarkofág (1987). He was married to Svetlana Olegovna Gubareva. He died on 25 January 2022 in Russia.
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Aleksandr Gintsburg graduated from the camera department of the Leningrad Photographic Film School (1927), Electrotechnical Institute (1934). From 1927, he was the operator of the Sovkino film studio (Lenfilm), from 1941-1943, the TsOKS in Tashkent, where Lenfilm was evacuated, from 1943, the operator of the Soyuzzdetfilm film studio (later named after Maksim Gorkiy), in 1951-1957 - cameraman and director of the Belarusfilm film studio (combining with the work of Sovinformburo operator).- Production Designer
- Art Director
Abram Veksler was born on 22 January 1905 in Gorki, Gorki uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Horki, Horki Raion, Mahilyow Region, Belarus]. He was a production designer and art director, known for Mussorgsky (1950), Mister Iks (1958) and Spring Song (1941). He died in 1974 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].- Friedrich Neznansky was born on 27 September 1932 in Shuravichi, Mogilev Okrug, BSSR, USSR [now Karma Raion, Gomel Oblast, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for Chyornyy kvadrat (1992). He died on 14 February 2013 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Chechik-Efrati was born in 1898 in Gomel Uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Gomel Oblast, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Mabul (1927). He died in 1927 in Germany.
- Olgierd Radwan was born on 2 February 1893 in Klimovichi, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Klimavichy, Mogilev Oblast, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Pigulki dla Aurelii (1958). He died on 12 December 1962 in Jelenia Góra, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.