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Dziga Vertov was born on 2 January 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He died on 12 February 1954 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Ms. Locke became the toast of Broadway's 1937 season when she starred with John Garfield in "Having a Wonderful Time", the Arthur Kober comedy. She was critically acclaimed as Ophelia in the Maurice Evans production of "Hamlet". Her other Broadway plays included "Fifth Column," with Lee J. Cobb, and "Clash by Night", with Tallulah Bankhead.
- Polish-born Meyer Lansky emigrated to New York with his family and grew up in the Lower East Side. It was there that he ran into Bugsy Siegel, at the time a teenaged neighborhood gangster, and the two would remain lifelong friends. When Lansky saw the kinds of money Siegel was making from his various illegal activities--mainly gambling--he decided that this was the line of work for him. His specialty was the floating crap game, and he was so successful at that and other gambling schemes that he and Siegel soon controlled a large gang that was known as the Bugs and Meyer Mob. The gang's size, and Lansky's business acumen, attracted the attention of another local gangster, Lucky Luciano, who approached Lansky and invited him to participate in his idea of forming a national criminal syndicate. The Prohibition Era was a goldmine for Lansky and other gangsters, and he, Siegel and Luciano became incredibly wealthy from bootlegging, prostitution, drug smuggling, gambling and other rackets. In the 1930s Luciano's dream of a national crime commission became a reality, and Lansky was appointed to a seat on its board of directors. Lansky's specialty was financial matters and he proved to be a genius at laundering the mob's illegal profits and squeezing every last penny from its legal and illegal investments. When his friend Luciano was sent to prison, Lansky managed to get him an early release by ensuring his cooperation with the U.S. government in its preparation for the invasion of Sicily. After Luciano was deported to Italy, Lansky took over the management of his empire. Friendship only went so far in the mob, however. His good friend Siegel got into trouble by wasting millions of dollars of "wiseguy" money building Las Vegas, and when the decision was made to have him killed, Lansky went along with it.
In the 1950s Lansky formed a friendship with Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, and the mob was given basically a blank check to run all the rackets in Cuba, especially the gambling casinos, prostitution and drug smuggling, with a large cut of the profits going to Batista. From Cuba Lansky spread his gambling and prostitution rackets to other South American countries, and even had a hand--although not a public one--in the casinos in Hong Kong and Macao. Lansky's fortunes began to wane, however, in the late 1960s when the U.S. government went after him for income tax evasion. He fled to Israel, and claimed citizenship there as a returning Jew. However, after legal wrangling with the Israeli government, Lansky's visa was revoked and he was deported back to the U.S. He stood trial, but managed to avoid conviction, reportedly because of his extensive political connections. He settled into a comfortable life in Miami, Florida, where he died of a heart attack in 1983. - Kurt Katch was born on 28 January 1896 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Seventh Cross (1944), The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and The Mummy's Curse (1944). He was married to Hinda Ryfka Kleinlerer. He died on 14 August 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Shmuel Rodensky was born on 10 December 1904 in Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Smarhon, Grodno Oblast, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Odessa File (1974), Tuvia Vesheva Benotav (1968) and Moses the Lawgiver (1974). He was married to Nyura Shein. He died on 18 July 1989 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Olga Korbut was born on 16 May 1955 in Grodno, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Hrodna, Belarus]. She is an actress, known for The Bronze (2015), When the Trees Fall (2018) and ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961). She has been married to Alex Voinich since 2001. She was previously married to Leonid Bortkevich.
- Aleksandr Dedyushko was a popular Russian actor also known as TV anchor, as member of the Russian show 'Dancing with the stars', as well as for his numerous roles in Russian war dramas.
He was born Aleksandr Viktorovich Dedyushko on May 20, 1962, in Volkovysk, Grodno province, Belorussia, Soviet Union (now Belarus). Young Dedyushko was fond of acting and dancing, he was member of a dancing ensemble at his school in Belorussia. From 1980 - 1983 he served as a Navy Marine in the Soviet Baltic Fleet. From 1984 - 1988 he studied acting at Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky City), graduating from Gorky Theatrical School in 1988 as an actor. From 1989 - 1995 he was member of the troupe at Vladimir City Theatre. There he married actress Svetlana Chernyshkova and the couple had one son.
From 1995 - 2000 Aleksandr Dedyushko was member of the troupe at Moscow art Theatre (MKhAT). During the 2000s Dedyushko was a popular TV anchor who led his own show, and also performed as a dancer in 'Dancing with the stars'. Besides being a professional actor, dancer and singer, he was skilled at horseback riding, fencing, martial arts, and boxing. Aleksandr Dedyushko with his wife and son were killed in a car accident on a slippery ice-covered road on November 3, 2007, in Petushki, Vladimir province, East of Moscow, Russia. - Myron Cohen was born on 1 July 1902 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor and writer, known for On Location: Myron Cohen Revisited (1978), On Location: Myron Cohen (1976) and When Nature Calls (1985). He was married to Miriam Hyman. He died on 10 March 1986 in Nyack, New York, USA.
- Zinaida Rachmatova was born on 1 February 1949 in Grodno, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus]. She was an actress, known for White Sun of the Desert (1970). She died on 20 June 2009 in Grodno, Belarus.
- Phil Diskin was born on 22 November 1928 in Grodno, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He is an actor, known for Permanent Record (1988), The Bernie Mac Show (2001) and It Came from the Desert (1992).
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David Rubinoff was born on 13 September 1897 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Thanks a Million (1935), You Can't Have Everything (1937) and Rubinoff and His Violin (1939). He was married to Darlene Azar. He died on 6 October 1986 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.- Julianna Mihnevich was born on 3 July 1975 in Grodno, Belarussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Nochnoy rezhim (2022), Peresud (2022) and Red Dog (2017).
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Jerzy Maksymiuk was born in 1936 in the Polish city of Grodno, which after World War II became part of Belarus. His family moved to Bialystok during the war in order to escape from the Russians. The parents, who got divorced when he was 15, were uneducated farmers. Jerzy started his musical education in Bialystok and then moved to Warsaw, where he graduated from the State Academy of Music. He took classes in playing the piano, composing and conducting. Maksymiuk was introduced into the world of films by his cousin, director Czeslaw Petelski, who gave him his first job in the business. For over 30 years Jerzy Maksymiuk was the composer and/or conductor of nearly 100 Polish films. Today Maksymiuk is best known in Poland as well as abroad as an extremely gifted and hard-working conductor. He was responsible for creating the world-famous Polish Chamber Orchestra (Polska Orkiestra Kameralna). After working as its conductor for 13 years, he became the conductor of the prestigious BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. His successful work in Glasgow took him another 13 years.- Director
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Genadzi Buto (b.1983) is an artist, director and animator. Originally from Belarus where he graduated from the Academy of Arts. He worked in motion design and vfx for advertising, music videos and cinema, then took part in film production as an classic animator and a storyboard artist, director on feature animated films for major animation studios. At the same time he keeps making independent experimental short films and animated shorts.- Jerzy Gniewkowski was born on 6 May 1938 in Grodno, Bialostockie, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Beads of One Rosary (1980), Blisko, coraz blizej (1983) and Podróz Luizy (1981). He died on 20 February 2012 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Helena Gotlib was born in 1885 in Grodno, Grodno Governorate, Northwestern Krai, Russian Empire [now Grodno, Grodno Region, Belarus]. She was an actress, known for Di farshtoysene tokhter (1915), In die poylishe velder (1929) and Zayn vaybs man (1913). She died in 1943 in Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw, General Government, Occupied Polish Region, Nazi Germany [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland].
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Konstanty Zadworny was born on 19 January 1975 in Grodno, Byelorussian SSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Small World (2021), Scarborn (2023) and Red Dog (2017).- Production Designer
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Ryszard Potocki was born in 1915 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was a production designer and actor, known for 5 i 1/2 Bladego Józka (1970), Night Train (1959) and Adventure in Marienstadt (1954). He died on 28 September 1975 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Raphael Klatchkin was born on 15 January 1905 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Zot Hi Ha'aretz (1935), Pioneers of Palestine (1933) and Tel Aviv Taxi (1956). He died on 27 May 1987 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Miriam Kressyn was born on 4 March 1910 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Northwestern Krai, Russian Empire [now Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for The Jester (1937), The Jewish Gypsy (1930) and Sailor's Sweetheart (1930). She was married to Seymour Rechzeit. She died on 28 October 1996 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Wadim Berestowski was born on 25 December 1917 in Grodno, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was a director and writer, known for Dzieci z naszej szkoly (1968), Rancho Texas (1959) and Tajemnica dzikiego szybu (1956). He died on 24 December 1992 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Producer
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Andrei Kalesnikau, was born in Grodno, Belarus. Finished school there, then worked as a DJ and sound engineer in a promo group "FlashBack" for 5 years. In 2010 he moved to Minsk and enrolled at filmschool on two specialties: actor and filmmaker. There was a three-month internship in Warsaw in 2011on a 3D "NEXT TV" channel as a video editor. In 2013 finished his filmschool. During this year he directed his first short film "What remains". In 2014 he directed next film "I am Creator" In 2016 with Katerina NIkonovich they create film studio "KONI crew" He worked on various film projects in the post cinematographer, editor and colorist.- Jolanta Wollejko was born on 15 September 1942 in Grodno, Bialostockie, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Nowy (1970), Love at Twenty (1962) and Punkty za pochodzenie (1983).
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Pavel Kizhuk was born on 14 October 1993 in Grodno, Belarus. He is an actor and director, known for Sneakers (2021), Invasion (2020) and Lev Yashin. Vratar moey mechty (2019).- Director
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Nikolai Lukyanov was born on 5 September 1949 in Volkovysk, Grodno Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Vawkavysk, Hrodna Oblast, Belarus]. He was a director and actor, known for V profil i anfas (1977), Chelovek iz chyornoi Volgi (1990) and Yurka - syn komandira (1985). He died on 21 September 2008 in Minsk, Belarus.- Art Department
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Léon Bakst was born on 10 May 1866 in Grodno, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was a costume designer, known for The Secret Spring (1923), Great Performances: Dance in America (1976) and Baryshnikov: Live at Wolf Trap (1976). He died on 27 December 1924 in Paris, France.- Cinematographer
Aleksandr Abadovsky was born on 22 November 1952 in Grodno, Belarussian SSR, USSR. He is a cinematographer, known for Na zheleznoy doroge (1989), Na Chernykh Lyadakh (1995) and Botanicheskiy sad (1997).- Director
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Panteleymon Sazonov was born on 27 May 1895 in Grodno, Russian Empire. Panteleymon was a director and writer, known for Vzryv (1928), Dymovka (1926) and In the Claws of the Soviets (1926). Panteleymon died on 3 October 1950.- Viktor Shalkevich was born on 9 February 1959 in Porozovo, Grodno Oblast, Belorussian SSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Den vozvrashcheniya (1980) and Poligon (1982).
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Romuald Farat was born on 11 May 1937 in Grodno, Bialostockie, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. Romuald was a cinematographer, known for Maailman paras paikka (1979), Henryk I (1995) and Polacy w bitwie o Anglie (2005). Romuald died on 9 March 1999 in Poland.- Arthur Zangiev is a Belgian actor, who started of as an extra at different productions such as the Emperor by Lee Tamahori and climbed his way up towards starring in his first indie film "Matched" by Felix Schaefer as Paul, a shy introvert character landing in an extrovert situation. Although he is very extrovert as a person, he shows that managing opposite characters is something he takes to heart. Never running away from a challenge, always trying to do better, and always willing to listen to be the best version of himself on and off the set. His passion for film, extraordinary situations and acting in front of the camera mark an actor that is willing to give it all for the right script.
- Sergey Prokopich was born on 4 September 1975 in Slonim, Grodno Oblast, Belorussian SSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Fortress of War (2010), Sniper: Weapon of Retaliation (2009) and Family Matters (2012).
- Edmund Wiercinski was born on 19 February 1899 in Jurgowo, Grodno Governorate, Vilna Governorate-General, Russian Empire [now Jurgowo, Grodno Region, Belarus]. Edmund was married to Maria Wiercinska. Edmund died on 13 September 1955 in Warsaw, Warszawskie, Polish People's Republic [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland].
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Jerzy Romanowski was born on 8 September 1938 in Pozyzma, Grodno, Belarus. He is an assistant director and casting director, known for Girl Guide (1995), Pilkarski poker (1989) and Misja specjalna (1987).- Semyon Semyonov was born in 1895 in Grodno, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. Semyon is known for The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926), The Girl with the Hat Box (1927) and Vratar (1936). Semyon died in 1982 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
- Yitzhak Shamir was born on 22 October 1915 in Ruzhany, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Brest Oblast, Belarus]. He was married to Shulamit Levy. He died on 30 June 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Mikhail Petrov was born on 23 December 1937 in Volkovysk, Grodno Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Zal ozhidaniya (1998), Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980) and Ulitsa bez kontsa (1973). He died on 13 September 2005 in Ostroshitskiy Gorodok, Belarus.
- Aleksei Antonov was born on 28 September 1896 in Grodno, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He died on 18 July 1962 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Mikhail Starokadomskiy was born on 13 June 1901 in Brest-Litovsk, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Brest, Brest oblast, Belarus]. Mikhail was a composer, known for Kak possorilis Ivan Ivanovich s Ivanom Nikiforovichem (1941), Dym v lesu (1955) and Hare the Tailor (1937). Mikhail died on 24 April 1954 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Illarion Nikolaevich Pevtsov was born on December 7, 1879, in Antopol, Brest province, Russian Empire (now Belarus). His father, named Nikolai Pevtsov, was a government clerk. Young Pevtsov studied and graduated from Panevezhys College in 1899, then worked as a clerk in Vilno. At that time Pevtsov made his stage debut with the Vilno Drama troupe in a production of 'Zhenitba' (Marriage) by Nikolay Gogol.
From 1899-1902 he studied under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Drama School at Moscow Philharmonic Society. From 1902-1906 he worked with Vsevolod Meyerhold at the "New Drama Theatre" in Moscow. Then he organized his own troupe and performed in many Russian cities. Pevtsov had also a stellar career as a stage actor. From 1922-1925 he worked with Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theatre. From 1925-1934 he was a permanent member of the troupe of the Pushkin Drama Theatre in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). There his stage partners were such remarkable actors as Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuri Yuryev, Boris Babochkin, Nikolai Simonov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Leonid Vivyen, Vladimir Chestnokov, and other notable Russian actors.
Pevtsov enjoyed a career in silent films. His best known film role is in 'Chapaev' (1934), where his partner was Boris Babochkin. Pevtsov taught acting classes in St. Petersburg theatre of Komissarzhevskaya and in Moscow Art Theatre. He died on October 25, 1934, and was laid to rest in Tikhvinskoe Cemetery of Aleksander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Director
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Vladimir Vilner was born on 21 March 1885 in Grodno, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Grodno Region, Belarus]. He was a director and actor, known for Motele the Weaver (1928), Tsement (1927) and Bennie the Howl (1927). He died on 9 August 1952 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Writer
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Wiktor Woroszylski was born on 8 June 1927 in Grodno, Bialostockie, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for I ty zostaniesz Indianinem (1962), Television Theater (1953) and Mniejszy szuka Duzego (1976). He died on 13 September 1996 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Director
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Viktor Eysymont was born on 20 December 1904 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. Viktor was a director and assistant director, known for Kreyser 'Varyag' (1947), The Girl from Leningrad (1941) and Aleksandr Popov (1949). Viktor died on 31 January 1964 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Sheyne Rokhl Semkoff was born on 18 September 1894 in Mayshtet, Grodno Gubernia, Polish Lithuania (now Molchad, Belarus). Sheyne Rokhl is known for His Wife's Lover (1931).
- Anatoliy Terpitskiy was born on 5 May 1956 in Minaki, Grodno Oblast, Belorussian SSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980), Chelovek, kotoryy bral intervyu (1987) and Sniper: Weapon of Retaliation (2009).
- Mariya Zhvirblis was born on 27 July 1882 in Grodno, Russian Empire. She was an actress, known for Borba prodolzhaetsya (1939) and Pervoklassnitsa (1948). She died in 1967.
- Valeriy Didyulya was born on 24 January 1969 in Grodno, Grodno Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Grodno Region, Belarus]. He is a composer, known for The Stoker (2010) and Evening Urgant (2012).
- Aleksandr Ilyinsky was born on 11 November 1903 in Mir, Navahrudak Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Karelichy District, Grodno Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Poseyali devushki lyon (1956) and Front (1943). He died on 28 March 1967 in Vitebsk, Belarus.
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Jolanta Rodziewicz was born on 23 April 1939 in Grodno, Bialostockie, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. She is an assistant director and producer, known for Theatre Macabre (1971), Czerwone i zlote (1969) and Gra (1969).- Meyer Schwartz was born on 26 April 1889 in Slonim, Grodno Governorate, Northwestern Krai, Russian Empire [now Slonim, Grodno Region, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for Mamele (1938). He was married to Rukhele Slopak. He died on 17 May 1977.