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Dapper American character actor and radio personality, born in Omaha, Nebraska. After attending Chicago University, Givot entered show business as a comedian with the Ziegfeld Follies. His particular forte was mimicking a variety of ethnic dialects. Performing in vaudeville and in nightclubs, he scored an immediate hit with his comic creation, the "Greek Ambassador of Good Will", an English-fracturing Greek immigrant. He took this character with him to radio, where he worked for some time on the Jimmy Durante Show. Continuing popularity led to appearances in two-reel comedies and feature films.
By the end of the 1930's, Givot had intended to settle down as a 'gentleman farmer' on his estate in Tarzana, California. However, a messy marital break-up and debts incurred in a failed business venture forced him back into the acting profession, albeit mostly in dramatic parts. However, his aptitude as a dialectician continued to be put to good use in Road to Morocco (1942) (as Neb Jolla), Behind the Rising Sun (1943) (as the hearty Russian newspaper man Boris), Captain Pirate (1952) (Tomas Velasquez) and China Gate (1957) (as ex-Parisian policeman Pigalle). From 1944, Givot took time out from the movies to return to Broadway, appearing in the musical comedy "Mexican Hayride" as Lombo Compos, partnering fellow vaudevillian Bobby Clark in a numbers racket. Towards the end of his career, Givot returned to his roots as a voice actor and is probably best remembered for voicing the gentle Italian restaurateur Tony in Lady and the Tramp (1955).- Actress
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Natasha Lytess was born on 16 May 1911 in Ekaterinoslav, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. She was an actress and writer, known for Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942), Comrade X (1940) and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951). She died on 12 May 1963 in Zurich, Switzerland.- Composer
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Elías Breeskin was born on 8 November 1896 in Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. He was a composer, known for Vuelve Pancho Villa (1950), El que murió de amor (1945) and Captain Scarlett (1952). He died on 9 May 1969 in Mexico City, Mexico.- After the end of the Second World War, he received training at the Surikov Institute in Moscow. During this time he became acquainted with works by Cézanne and other Western artists. Kabakov made his first drawing studies that showed natural landscapes. In 1957 he completed his training as an illustrator. He then found a job as such and worked on children's books. In 1965 he joined the Union of Artists of the USSR. Around this time, his apartment in Moscow was already becoming a secret meeting place for artists critical of the regime.
From 1978 onwards, Kabakov himself produced works that criticized socialist realism in prescribed regime art: these were creatively made picture walls with conceptual texts in a parodying protest stance that confronted a stubborn Soviet administration. His pictures, collages and installations from this period deal with the social living conditions in the USSR, with the mentality of the country, but also with the everyday difficulties of people as well as with the state's utopias regarding society and architecture. The artist was unable to make his critical and parody works, which themselves dealt with the prescribed art world of the Soviet Union, known to a larger audience in an exhibition, but they nevertheless reached the West via mysterious routes.
There, in the Schweizerische Kunsthalle Bern, 25 pictures and 490 drawings were shown for the first time in 1985. This exhibition made Ilya Kabakov internationally known. Two years later he went to the west on a three-month scholarship from the Kunstverein Graz, where he stayed. In 1988, Kabakow and his wife Emilia moved to New York, where he still mainly lives and works today. The following year, the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD awarded him a scholarship and he presented his works in Paris at the Center Pompidou. From 1992 he came to the Städelschule in Frankfurt/M. a teaching position for one year. This year he exhibited at the Kassel documenta. Over time, Ilya Kabakov made a name for himself primarily as an exhibition artist, managing a considerable number of public presentations every year.
His awards include the 1990 Aachen Art Prize, the 1993 Max Beckmann Prize, the Swiss Joseph Beuys Prize and the Honorary Diploma from the Venice Biennale, as well as the Goslar Kaiserring in 1998. - Stanislav Stankevich was born on 2 August 1928 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for Blokada: Leningradskiy metronom, Operatsiya Iskra (1977), Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian (1974) and Kochubey (1958).
- Valentin Golubenko was born on 8 October 1940 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Kin-dza-dza! (1986), Master i Margarita (2006) and Shans (1984). He died on 2 October 2023.
- Anatoliy Demyanenko was born on 19 February 1959 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine].
- Viktor Pronin was born on 20 October 1938 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. Viktor was a writer, known for The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999), Grazhdanin nachalnik (2001) and Samoubiystvo (1981). Viktor died on 18 July 2023 in Russia.
- Igor Kolomoisky was born on 13 February 1963 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. He is a producer, known for Song of Songs (2015), Arte Journal (1998) and Glavnoe s Olgoy Belovoy (2019).
- Denis Kozhevnikov was born on 13 November 1969 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for Chislo zverya, Chuzhaya staya (2020) and Odno leto i vsya zhizn (2020).
- Yaroslava Mahuchikh was born on 19 September 2001 in Dnipro, Ukraine.
- Elena Volskaya was born on 30 August 1923 in Ekaterinoslav, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980), Po tonkomu ldu (1966) and It Can't Be! (1975). She died on 4 April 1998 in Moscow, Russia.
- Yevheniy Volodymyrovych Yenin was born on 19 November 1980 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union [now Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He died on 18 January 2023 in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
- Anna Khnychenkova was born on 12 November 1994 in Dnipro, Ukraine.
- Kazimierz Czekotowski was born on 2 March 1901 in Ekaterinoslav, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Dnipro, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Straszny dwór (1936). He died on 14 June 1972 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Worked as a film editor in movies and television from the 1930's through the mid-1960's. During this period he worked for Charlie Chaplin's studio, Columbia Pictures, Roy Rogers, and others. He was employed for a time by evangelist Billy Graham, whom he said was his favorite employer due to Graham's gentle management style. In contrast, much earlier in his career, Berlin left Chaplin' s studio because he disliked the way in which Charlie Chaplin mistreated his brother Sidney.- Composer
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Danylo Trinchuk was born on 20 August 1992 in Dnipro, Ukraine. He is a composer, known for The Deceptive Truth (2018), The Other Side (2017) and Monday (2017).