Alexander Khvylya

Soviet actor

Alexander Khvylya


Occupation	Actor

Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya (born Bressem, Russian: Александр Леопольдович Хвыля, Ukrainian: Олександр Леопольдович Хвиля, Oleksandr Leopoldovych Khvylya; 15 July 1905 – 17 October 1976) was a Ukrainian Soviet theater and film actor who played in The Diamond Arm, The End of Chyrva Kozyr, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and others. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (23 October 1963).^[1]

Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne (Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich Bressem.^[1] Today the village is part of the Ivanopil rural community in Kostiantynivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast.

Career

In 1922, he graduated from the Vorovsky Drama Studio.^[2] Khvylya worked in the Zankovetska Music-Drama Theater from 1924 through 1926, then in Berezil that just relocated to Kharkiv from Kyiv. From 1934 until the German invasion of WWII, he worked in the Kharkiv Drama Theater of Shevchenko. Later, Khvylia relocated to Moscow, where he worked in the State theater of a cinema-actor.

Plays

Dictatorship (Ivan Mykytenko) as Husak
Perish of squadron (Oleksandr Korniychuk) as Baltiyets
The Storm (Alexander Ostrovsky) as Kudryash

Selected Movies

1932 Ivan (Alexander Dovzhenko) as Orator (first role in movies)
1938 Karmeliuk (Georgiy Tasin) as Karmeliuk
1941 Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Ihor Savchenko) as Kobzar
1942 Oleksandr Parkhomenko (Leonid Lukov) as Parkhomenko
1946 The Liberated Earth
1946 The Vow as Semyon Budyonny
1948 Red Necktie as Vishnyakov
1948 The Young Guard (Sergei Gerasimov) as Shulga (his scenes later were cut out)^[3]^[4]
1949 Konstantin Zaslonov as Secretary of Raion Committee (Stalin Prize, 1950)
1949 Fairy Tales of Kuban (Ivan Pyryev) as Denis Koren
1951 Taras Shevchenko (Ihor Savchenko) as Mr. Barabash
1952 May Nights as the Head
1958 Over Tissa as Gromada, general of the border guards
1961 Evenings at a khutir near Dykanka (Aleksandr Rou) as Chub
1962 Queen of the Gas Station as Priest, the bus passenger
1964 Jack Frost (Aleksandr Rou) as Jack Frost
1968 The Diamond Arm (Leonid Gaidai) as Boris Savelyevich

References

^ ^a ^b Александр Леопольдович Хвыля - биография . Archived 2016-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Вылитый Пархоменко". rg.kiev.ua. Archived from the original on 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
^ Actress Inna Makarova, about the movie "The Young Guard": Stalin said: "Shootings to continue" Izvestiya
^ 350. Dangerous roles Archived 2009-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Chronographъ