Wayland Rudd
Wayland Rudd ( Russian Вейланд Леонардович Родд ; * 1900 in Lincoln , Nebraska , † July 4, 1952 in Moscow ) was an American-Soviet actor .
Life
Wayland Rudd moved to Washington when he was seventeen . He graduated from Howard University and sold life insurance. Rudd played in an amateur troupe before he was hired by Jasper Deeter at the Hedgerow Theater in Rose Valley in 1929. On this stage he took over the title roles in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and in Othello , and he was also seen in several Broadway productions. In 1932 he traveled to Moscow as part of a group of 22 African-Americans to star in a film by German director Carl Junghans . When the project was canceled, Rudd decided to stay in the Soviet Union.
He was accepted as an ensemble member at the Meyerhold Theater and was then at the Stanislawski Theater. During his brief visit to the USA in 1934 he declared: “Looking at the theater in America after working with the theater in Russia for two consecutive years is a great and confusing experience for any American actor; and if that actor is a Negro it is almost a calamity ". In the USSR, Rudd played in Juri Germans Das Vorspiel , The List of Charities by Juri Olescha and Deep Roots by Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow . In 1933 he made his film debut in Lew Kuleschow's The Great Comforter . He studied at the Faculty of Directing at the State Institute of Theater Arts in Moscow and has written several plays, including Andy Jones based on an autobiography by Angelo Herndon.
Wayland Rudd died of appendicitis in 1952. His son Wayland Rudd Jr. (* 1946 ) is a Russian jazz - singer .
Filmography (selection)
- 1933: The great comforter (Weliki uteschitel)
- 1936: Tom Sawyer
- 1945: The fifteen-year-old captain (Pjatnadzatiletni kapitan)
- 1947: The Life of a Great Researcher (Miklucho-Maklai)
Web links
- Wayland Rudd in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wayland Rudd in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Crisis . Volumes 41-42, 1934, Crisis Publishing Company, p. 268.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rudd, Wayland |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Родд, Вейланд Леонардович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Soviet actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lincoln , Nebraska |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1952 |
| Place of death | Moscow |