Viktor Dobrovolsky was born on January 23, 1906 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Odessa Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for
Seym vykhodit iz beregov (1962),
Pravda (1957) and
Battle Beyond the Sun (1959). He died on July 28, 1984 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].