Georgy Millyar
Georgi Franzevich Milljar (Russian Георгий Францевич Милляр; born November 7, 1903 in Moscow, † June 4, 1993 ) was a Soviet theater and film actor.
Life
Milljars father, a French bridge engineer, died when Milljar was two years old. His mother moved with him to Gelendzhik, where he worked after the October Revolution as a supplier at a theater in 1920 and for the first time as an actor. From 1924 to 1927 he studied in Moscow at the drama class of the theater of the Revolution ( Театр Революции; 1943 renamed the Moscow Dramatic Theatre and 1954 Mayakovsky Theater ), which had been founded in 1922 by Vsevolod Meyerhold and 1924 under the direction of Valery Bebutow ( 1885-1961) was. Then Milljar belonged from 1927 to 1938 to the ensemble of the theater, which was, among others, Alexei Popov ( 1892-1961 ) and later led at this time by Maxim Schtrauch. After the Great Patriotic War he was a member from 1945 to 1952 the ensemble of the Moscow theater studios of the film actor ( киноактёра Театр - студия; 1990 renamed the theater the actor and, since 1992, State Theatre of the actor ).
Since 1929 Milljar also worked in films as an actor. Particularly influential were his roles in the late 1930s, emerging film adaptations of Russian fairy tales and legends. However, his collaboration with director Alexander Rou was especially fruitful in its first fairy tale The Magic fish he appeared in 1938, in which he subsequently participated in more than a dozen films. In the movies Rous specialized in grotesque characters Milljar also had his most popular roles: the legendary hero Kashtshei in wartime in Kazakhstan turned The Immortal Kastchei (1944 /45) and in particular the role of the witch Baba Yaga, the Milljar in 1939 first in Rous great success the beautiful Vasilisa embodied and then again in the resulting 1964-1971 fairy tale films Rous (Father Frost, Fire, Water and trombones and the stag with golden antlers ).
1988 Milljar was awarded the title People's Artist of RSFSR ( Народный артист РСФСР ).