Alexander Alexandrovich Mursky

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Alexander Alexandrowitsch Murski ( Russian Александр Александрович Мурский ; born November 1, 1869 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † April 1943 in Toulouse , France ) was a Russian actor .

Live and act

Murski has played on mostly small Russian theaters since the late 19th century. From 1901 to 1903 he can be traced back to Moscow's Maly Theater . Due to the revolutionary turmoil in 1917 Murski came with an entourage of many other tsarist stage artists to Germany . In February 1922 he went on tour with a Russian theater company with Ferenc Molnár's The Devil and thus came to France ( Paris ) for the first time .

At the same time, Murski began filming intensively in Berlin in the early 1920s. He celebrated successes above all in roles as a dignitary and respected person: in 1925 he was a judge in Die Insel der Träume , in 1926 a senior public prosecutor in Public Prosecutor Jordan , in 1927 a Prime Minister in Die Geliebte des Gouverneur , 1928 a director in Zwei Rote Rosen and 1929 a banker in Escape to the Foreign Legion and Sir Charles Baskerville in The Hound of Baskerville . Often Murski was also used as a Russian in literary, dramatic and historical material, such as in Queen of Spades, Rasputin's love affair, games of an empress, The White Devil, As long as a waltz from the Strauss can be heard, In the Secret Service, The Fall of General Staff Colonel Redl and the Sans-souci flute concert .

Disqualified by the National Socialists as a full Jew, Murski fled to France as a result of Hitler's accession to power , where he has been back in Paris since 1939. In the same year he was used several times in performances by exiled Russian theater professionals and also staged plays such as Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrowski's Wolves and Sheep . Until March 1940, Murski's artistic activities can be traced back to so-called creative evenings in the context of Russian exile cultural events held at the Russian Conservatory in Paris.

He presumably disappeared when German troops marched into France. Alexander Murski died in Toulouse in the south of France in 1943.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 597.

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personal data
SURNAME Mursky, Alexander Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мурский, Александр Александрович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 1943
Place of death Toulouse , France