Viktor Stanitsyn

Viktor Stanitsyn
File:Viktor Stanitsyn.jpg
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 (Russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Стани́цын; 1897–1976) was a Soviet and Russian 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

Viktor was born on 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