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Dziga Vertov was born on 2 January 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He died on 12 February 1954 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Polish-born Meyer Lansky emigrated to New York with his family and grew up in the Lower East Side. It was there that he ran into Bugsy Siegel, at the time a teenaged neighborhood gangster, and the two would remain lifelong friends. When Lansky saw the kinds of money Siegel was making from his various illegal activities--mainly gambling--he decided that this was the line of work for him. His specialty was the floating crap game, and he was so successful at that and other gambling schemes that he and Siegel soon controlled a large gang that was known as the Bugs and Meyer Mob. The gang's size, and Lansky's business acumen, attracted the attention of another local gangster, Lucky Luciano, who approached Lansky and invited him to participate in his idea of forming a national criminal syndicate. The Prohibition Era was a goldmine for Lansky and other gangsters, and he, Siegel and Luciano became incredibly wealthy from bootlegging, prostitution, drug smuggling, gambling and other rackets. In the 1930s Luciano's dream of a national crime commission became a reality, and Lansky was appointed to a seat on its board of directors. Lansky's specialty was financial matters and he proved to be a genius at laundering the mob's illegal profits and squeezing every last penny from its legal and illegal investments. When his friend Luciano was sent to prison, Lansky managed to get him an early release by ensuring his cooperation with the U.S. government in its preparation for the invasion of Sicily. After Luciano was deported to Italy, Lansky took over the management of his empire. Friendship only went so far in the mob, however. His good friend Siegel got into trouble by wasting millions of dollars of "wiseguy" money building Las Vegas, and when the decision was made to have him killed, Lansky went along with it.
In the 1950s Lansky formed a friendship with Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, and the mob was given basically a blank check to run all the rackets in Cuba, especially the gambling casinos, prostitution and drug smuggling, with a large cut of the profits going to Batista. From Cuba Lansky spread his gambling and prostitution rackets to other South American countries, and even had a hand--although not a public one--in the casinos in Hong Kong and Macao. Lansky's fortunes began to wane, however, in the late 1960s when the U.S. government went after him for income tax evasion. He fled to Israel, and claimed citizenship there as a returning Jew. However, after legal wrangling with the Israeli government, Lansky's visa was revoked and he was deported back to the U.S. He stood trial, but managed to avoid conviction, reportedly because of his extensive political connections. He settled into a comfortable life in Miami, Florida, where he died of a heart attack in 1983. - Kurt Katch was born on 28 January 1896 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Seventh Cross (1944), The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and The Mummy's Curse (1944). He was married to Hinda Ryfka Kleinlerer. He died on 14 August 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ms. Locke became the toast of Broadway's 1937 season when she starred with John Garfield in "Having a Wonderful Time", the Arthur Kober comedy. She was critically acclaimed as Ophelia in the Maurice Evans production of "Hamlet". Her other Broadway plays included "Fifth Column," with Lee J. Cobb, and "Clash by Night", with Tallulah Bankhead.
- Olga Korbut was born on 16 May 1955 in Grodno, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Hrodna, Belarus]. She is an actress, known for The Bronze (2015), When the Trees Fall (2018) and ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961). She has been married to Alex Voinich since 2001. She was previously married to Leonid Bortkevich.
- Shmuel Rodensky was born on 10 December 1904 in Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Smarhon, Grodno Oblast, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Odessa File (1974), Tuvia Vesheva Benotav (1968) and Moses the Lawgiver (1974). He was married to Nyura Shein. He died on 18 July 1989 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Myron Cohen was born on 1 July 1902 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor and writer, known for On Location: Myron Cohen Revisited (1978), On Location: Myron Cohen (1976) and When Nature Calls (1985). He was married to Miriam Hyman. He died on 10 March 1986 in Nyack, New York, USA.
- Phil Diskin was born on 22 November 1928 in Grodno, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He is an actor, known for Permanent Record (1988), The Bernie Mac Show (2001) and It Came from the Desert (1992).
- Zinaida Rachmatova was born on 1 February 1949 in Grodno, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus]. She was an actress, known for White Sun of the Desert (1970). She died on 20 June 2009 in Grodno, Belarus.
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Jerzy Maksymiuk was born in 1936 in the Polish city of Grodno, which after World War II became part of Belarus. His family moved to Bialystok during the war in order to escape from the Russians. The parents, who got divorced when he was 15, were uneducated farmers. Jerzy started his musical education in Bialystok and then moved to Warsaw, where he graduated from the State Academy of Music. He took classes in playing the piano, composing and conducting. Maksymiuk was introduced into the world of films by his cousin, director Czeslaw Petelski, who gave him his first job in the business. For over 30 years Jerzy Maksymiuk was the composer and/or conductor of nearly 100 Polish films. Today Maksymiuk is best known in Poland as well as abroad as an extremely gifted and hard-working conductor. He was responsible for creating the world-famous Polish Chamber Orchestra (Polska Orkiestra Kameralna). After working as its conductor for 13 years, he became the conductor of the prestigious BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. His successful work in Glasgow took him another 13 years.- Evgeniy Atarik was born on 30 April 1968 in Grodno, Belarus. He is an actor, known for Dark World (2010), Bolevoy porog (2019) and Dalnoboyshchiki (2001).
- Valeriy Didyulya was born on 24 January 1969 in Grodno, Grodno Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Grodno Region, Belarus]. He is a composer, known for The Stoker (2010) and Evening Urgant (2012).
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Viktor Eysymont was born on 20 December 1904 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. Viktor was a director and assistant director, known for Kreyser 'Varyag' (1947), The Girl from Leningrad (1941) and Aleksandr Popov (1949). Viktor died on 31 January 1964 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Aleksandr Dedyushko was a popular Russian actor also known as TV anchor, as member of the Russian show 'Dancing with the stars', as well as for his numerous roles in Russian war dramas.
He was born Aleksandr Viktorovich Dedyushko on May 20, 1962, in Volkovysk, Grodno province, Belorussia, Soviet Union (now Belarus). Young Dedyushko was fond of acting and dancing, he was member of a dancing ensemble at his school in Belorussia. From 1980 - 1983 he served as a Navy Marine in the Soviet Baltic Fleet. From 1984 - 1988 he studied acting at Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky City), graduating from Gorky Theatrical School in 1988 as an actor. From 1989 - 1995 he was member of the troupe at Vladimir City Theatre. There he married actress Svetlana Chernyshkova and the couple had one son.
From 1995 - 2000 Aleksandr Dedyushko was member of the troupe at Moscow art Theatre (MKhAT). During the 2000s Dedyushko was a popular TV anchor who led his own show, and also performed as a dancer in 'Dancing with the stars'. Besides being a professional actor, dancer and singer, he was skilled at horseback riding, fencing, martial arts, and boxing. Aleksandr Dedyushko with his wife and son were killed in a car accident on a slippery ice-covered road on November 3, 2007, in Petushki, Vladimir province, East of Moscow, Russia. - Jolanta Wollejko was born on 15 September 1942 in Grodno, Bialostockie, Poland [now Hrodna, Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Nowy (1970), Love at Twenty (1962) and Punkty za pochodzenie (1983).
- Julianna Mihnevich was born on 3 July 1975 in Grodno, Belarussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Nochnoy rezhim (2022), Peresud (2022) and Etyudy o svobode (2018).
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Genadzi Buto (b.1983) is an artist, director and animator. Originally from Belarus where he graduated from the Academy of Arts. He worked in motion design and vfx for advertising, music videos and cinema, then took part in film production as an classic animator and a storyboard artist, director on feature animated films for major animation studios. At the same time he keeps making independent experimental short films and animated shorts.- Arthur Zangiev is a Belgian actor, who started of as an extra at different productions such as the Emperor by Lee Tamahori and climbed his way up towards starring in his first indie film "Matched" by Felix Schaefer as Paul, a shy introvert character landing in an extrovert situation. Although he is very extrovert as a person, he shows that managing opposite characters is something he takes to heart. Never running away from a challenge, always trying to do better, and always willing to listen to be the best version of himself on and off the set. His passion for film, extraordinary situations and acting in front of the camera mark an actor that is willing to give it all for the right script.
- Raphael Klatchkin was born on 15 January 1905 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Zot Hi Ha'aretz (1935), Pioneers of Palestine (1933) and Tel Aviv Taxi (1956). He died on 27 May 1987 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Oleg Filipchik was born on 12 June 1968 in Grodno, Belarussian SSR, USSR. He is an actor, known for Detektor (2023), Ay lav yu, Petrovich (1990) and Varyagi (2024).
- Mikhail Petrov was born on 23 December 1937 in Volkovysk, Grodno Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Zal ozhidaniya (1998), Gosudarstvennaya granitsa (1980) and Ulitsa bez kontsa (1973). He died on 13 September 2005 in Ostroshitskiy Gorodok, Belarus.
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David Rubinoff was born on 13 September 1897 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Thanks a Million (1935), You Can't Have Everything (1937) and Rubinoff and His Violin (1939). He was married to Darlene Azar. He died on 6 October 1986 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.- Production Designer
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Ryszard Potocki was born in 1915 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was a production designer and actor, known for 5 i 1/2 Bladego Józka (1970), Night Train (1959) and Adventure in Marienstadt (1954). He died on 28 September 1975 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Chaim Weizmann was born on 27 November 1874 in Motol, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Brest Oblast, Belarus]. He died on 9 November 1952 in Rehovot, Israel.
- Yitzhak Shamir was born on 22 October 1915 in Ruzhany, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Brest Oblast, Belarus]. He was married to Shulamit Levy. He died on 30 June 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel.