Ruben Simonov
Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov | |
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 Simonov on a 1971 Soviet stamp | |
| Born | 2 April 1899 |
| Died | 5 December 1968 (aged 69) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov (Russian: Рубен Николаевич Симонов (2 April 1899 – 5 December 1968) was a Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue, as well as a People's Artist of the USSR (1946).
Simonov was born on 2 April 1899, in Moscow, to a family of Russian Armenians. Graduating from the Moscow State University, he then became an actor, starting his career at the Armenian drama studio in the Armenian House of Culture.[1] In 1939, he became director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He also led the Armenian and Uzbek theaters of Moscow.
Selected filmography
[edit]- Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
- The Fall of Berlin (1950)
- The Gadfly (1955)
References
[edit]- ^ Yuzefovich, Victor (1985). Aram Khachaturyan, trans. Nicholas Kournokoff and Vladimir Bobrov. New York, Sphinx Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-943071-00-3.
External links
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- Симонов Рубен Николаевич (Simonov, Ruben Nikolayevich) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) – via Great Scientific Library
- Simonovs bio (in Russian)
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