Saturday, March 2, 2024

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ I. Bobrov

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Ivan Vasilevich Bobrov was born in Moscow, Russian Empire on February 7, 1904. In 1917 he graduated from the City Primary School. Beginning in 1918 he worked as a transport agent of the Suschevsko-Marinsky District Council and from 1920 - a forwarder of the People's Commissariat of Forestry, and in 1922 - a forwarder of Rustrans.

In 1925, Ivan Bobrov made his film debut. In 1926, he became an actor at Sovkino and  graduated from the acting school at Mosfilm.

From 1926 to 1932, Ivan Bobrov served in the OGPU (The Joint State Political Directorate (JSPD) which was the intelligence and state security service and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934) while combining work in the cinema.

From April 1941, he became an actor of the Tashkent Film Studio, in 1944 - an actor of the Soyuzdetfilm film studio, and from 1948 an actor of the Theater-Studio of the Film Actor.

He starred in films and worked for a long time as a boxing instructor at the Dynamo MPSO. He was an award winner of Moscow for the memoirs of Kirill Stolyarov about the film "The Death of the Eagle", 1940.

Ivan died in Moscow on April 12, 1952.

His only Euro-western appearance was as a gold prospector in the 1946 Russian film “Belyy klyk” (White Fang)/

BOBROV, I. (aka I.V. Bobrov) (Ivan Vasilevich Bobrov) [2/7/1904, Moscow, Russian Empire – 4/12/1952, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.] – film actor.

White Fang – 1946 (gold prospector)

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