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	Birth : 10 October 1900, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 23 August 1993, Studio City, California, USA Birth Name: Gregory De Gay Height: 183
Filmography: Tempest (uncredited) The Black Watch Bit Part (uncredited) The Case of Lena Smith (uncredited)

Character actor in US films.

	Birth : 18 April 1903, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 8 September 1998, Fountain Hills, Arizona, USA (complications from a stroke) Nickname: Mad Russian
Filmography: The Big Broadcast Ivan Trouble in Paradise Radical (uncredited) Duck Soup Sylvanian Agitator (as Leonid Kinsky)

Leonid Kinskey, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, performed across Europe and much of Latin America before his arrival in the United States. By 1932 he landed a small role as a radical in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise (1932). The next year he played an agitator in Duck Soup (1933).

	Birth : 5 May 1895, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 12 September 1993, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia) Birth Name: Charles Fred Lamont Height: 165
Filmography: Bachelors' Babies Come to Papa The Fixer

One of the more prolific American directors, Charles Lamont entered films as an actor in 1919 and became a director in 1922. He churned out numerous one- and two-reel comedies for various producers, including Mack Sennett and Al Christie, and began directing features in the mid-'30s.

	Birth : 3 July 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 25 April 1972, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain (suicide) Height: 192
Filmography: Love, Life and Laughter Singer In Public Bar (uncredited) Dishonour Bright Lisle Find the Lady Curly Randall

George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy.

	Birth : 27 July 1903, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 14 September 1966, Moscow, USSR (now Russia) Birth Name: Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov Height: 198
Filmography: Yego prevoskhoditelstvo Schastye Poet i tsar Charles, the barber

The preeminent Russian actor, at least in Western eyes, of the first half of the twentieth century. He became interested in the theatre as a teenager and joined the Teatr Mariinskij as a stagehand in 1918. He apprenticed with various traveling companies and therein learned ballet, pantomime, and acrobatics. He studied at the St.

	Birth : 17 November 1905, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 5 March 1967, Rome, Italy (heart attack) Birth Name: Mischa Ounskowsky Height: 188
Filmography: Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 2 Himself Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood Himself, Polo Fan Something Always Happens Clark

Mischa Auer, the American screen's supreme exponent of the "Mad Russian" stereotype so dear to Yankee years before and after World War II, was born Mischa Ounskowsky on November 17, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the grandson of violinist Leopold Auer, whose surname he took when he became a professional actor in the U.S. during the 1920s.

	Birth : 6 May 1868, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 17 July 1918, Ekaterenburg, Russia (execution) Birth Name: Nikolai Alexandrevich Romanov Nickname: Nicky Height: 170
Filmography: "Film Night" Himself (archive footage) Scarlet Dawn Himself, reviewing troops (archive footage) (uncredited) Scarlet Dawn Himself, reviewing troops (archive footage) (uncredited)

Born on 19 May, 1868 was the first child of Tsarevitch Aleksandr III and his wife, Maria Fyodorovna. He was christened His Imperial Highness Nicholas Aleksandrovitch Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia.

	Birth : 15 September 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 22 April 1967, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA (cirrhosis of the liver) Birth Name: Thomas Charles Sanders Height: 185
Filmography: "The Betty Hutton Show" Mr. Seaton Sky Murder Andrew Hendon Waterloo Bridge (voice) (uncredited)

Tom Conway played "The Falcon" in ten of that series' entries. He starred in three Val Lewton horror classics. He appeared in comedies, musicals, two Tarzan films and even science fiction films.

He was early television's Detective Mark Saber, but Conway will probably be best remembered as George Sanders' brother.

	Birth : 15 September 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 24 April 1985, Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) Birth Name: Sergei Yosifovich Yutkevich
Filmography: Kruzheva Kruzheva Chyornyy parus

He has made been famous in the young soviet cinema by his films about Lenin (Lenin v Polshe (1966) and others).

	Birth : 20 April 1897, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 14 December 1960, Solothurn, Switzerland (leukemia)
Filmography: Once in a Lifetime Herman Glogauer Secrets of the French Police Gen. Hans Moloff Skyscraper Souls Mr. Vinmont

Producer, director and actor Gregory Ratoff was born in Russia on April 20, 1897, and studied at the University of St. Petersburg. His pursuit of a law career was interrupted by service in the Czar's army, and he fought in World War I. He later changed his focus and went on to make a name for himself with the Moscow Art Theatre.

	Birth : 25 September 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 9 August 1975, Moscow, Soviet Union [now Russia] (lung cancer) Birth Name: Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
Filmography: A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich Himself Khovanshchina Lady Macbeth von Mzensk

Dmitri Shostakovich, one of Russian culture's most acclaimed intellectuals who was censored under the dictatorship of Stalin, was an internationally recognized composer whose music was in over 100 films.