Lev Sverdlin

Lev Sverdlin studied at Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. The recorded working language is Russian. Employment is recorded with Meyerhold State Theatre, Vakhtangov Theatre and Mayakovsky Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the USSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Lev Sverdlin • Birth Name — Lev Naumovich Sverdlin • Born — 16 November 1901 • Birthplace — Astrakhan, Russian Empire • Died — 29 August 1969 • Place of death — Moscow, Soviet Union • Occupation — Actor, theater director and pedagogue • Years Active — 1922–1969

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.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1936 — By the Bluest of Seas — Yusuf the fisherman • Circus — Circus spectator • 1937 — The Defense of Volotchayevsk — Colonel Ushijima • 1939 — Minin and Pozharsky — Grigory Orlov • 1940 — Gorky 3: My Universities — Tatar guard • 1942 — His Name Is Sukhe-Bator — Damdin Sükhbaatar • 1943 — Nasreddin in Bukhara — Nasreddin • Wait for Me — Mikhail Weinstein • The Front — Gaidar • David Bek — Russian ambassador • 1944 — Days and Nights — Colonel Protsenko • The Wedding — Organ grinder • 1945 — Simple People — Akbashev representative — Uncredited; released in 1956 • 1946 — The White Fang — Matt • Cruiser 'Varyag — Japanese consul • 1948 — Tale of a True Man — Naumov • 1949 — Alitet Leaves for the Hills — Alitet • 1950 — Far from Moscow — Mikhail Borisovich Zalkind — Stalin Prize first degree (1951) • 1954 — A Tale of the Forest Giant — Vladimir Vasilyevich • 1955 — The Road — Beimbetov • 1956 — Different Fortunes — Nikolai Kapitonovich Ognev • 1960 — It Was I Who Drew the Little Man — Supreme Liar — Voice • 1963 — The First Trolleybus — Svetlana's father • All Remains to People — General manager — Uncredited • 1967 — The Elusive Avengers — Semyon Budyonny

Lev Sverdlin is recorded with the occupation theatre director. Recorded with the occupation drama teacher. Recorded with the occupation film actor. Recorded as actor, theatre director and drama teacher.