Alexandre Volkoff (actor)
Appearance
Alexandre Volkoff | |
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Born | 27 December 1885 |
Died | 22 May 1942 |
Other names | Alexander Wolkoff |
Occupation(s) | Actor, Screenwriter, Film Director |
Years active | 1913 - 1941 |
Alexandre Volkoff (Russian Александр Александрович Волков, transliteration Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Volkov, 1885–1942) was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director. He established his film career in Russia and was one of a significant number of film artists who fled the country following the Bolshevik takeover.[1]
The bulk of his output was in France where he was known as Alexandre Volkoff. He also made films in Germany and later Italy and collaborated several times with his fellow Russian exile, the actor Ivan Mozzhukhin.
Selected filmography
Director
Features unless otherwise specified:
- The Fugitive - a short film, Russia, France
- The Green Spider (1916) - a short film, Russia
- Father Sergius (1917) - co-director, Russia
- People Die for Metal (1919) - Russia
- The House of Mystery (1923) - France
- Les Ombres qui passent (1924) - France
- Kean (1924) - France
- The Loves of Casanova (1927) - France
- Secrets of the Orient (1928) - France
- The White Devil (1930) - Germany
- Stjenka Rasin (1936) - Germany
- Amore imperiale (1941) - Italy
Screenwriter
- Heart of an Actress (1924, dir. Germaine Dulac) - France
References
- ^ Phillips p.39
Bibliography
- Phillips, Alastair. City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris, 1929-1939. Amsterdam University Press, 2004.
External links
Categories:
- 1885 births
- 1942 deaths
- Russian refugees
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Russian male film actors
- Russian male silent film actors
- Russian male screenwriters
- Russian film directors
- Male actors from Moscow
- People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Italy
- 20th-century Russian screenwriters
- 20th-century Russian male writers
- Russian actor stubs
- Russian film director stubs