Boris Babochkin
Boris Babochkin | |
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Борис Бабочкин | |
| Born | 18 January 1904 Saratov, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 17 July 1975 (aged 71) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation(s) | Film and theater actor and director |
| Years active | 1921 – 1975 |
| Spouse | Yekaterina Georgieva |
Boris Andreyevich Babochkin (18 January 1904 – 17 July 1975) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and director. Boris Babochkin was one of the first internationally recognized stars of the Soviet-Russian cinema. He rose to fame with the title role in the classic film Chapaev (1934) and later, in the 1950s, he played a sharp anti-communist character on stage in Moscow, for which he was censored by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.