Gregori Chmara

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Chmara.

Grigori Chmara
Gregori Chmara in 1918
Born	Gregori Mikhailovich Chmara (1878-07-29)29 July 1878 Poltava, Russian Empire
Died	3 February 1970(1970-02-03) (aged 91) Paris, France
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1910–1970
Partner	Asta Nielsen (1923–1936)

Gregori Mikhailovich Chmara (Ukrainian: Григорій Михайлович Хмара, Russian: Григорий Михайлович Хмара; 29 July 1878 – 3 February 1970) was a Ukrainian-born stage and film actor whose career spanned six decades.

Biography

Born in Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), Chmara began his career in 1910 at the Moscow Art Theater. He made several films in Russia and following the Russian Revolution he went to Germany where he performed as a singer. After meeting the Danish actress Asta Nielsen, the two fell in love and lived together, but never married.

In 1930, he began appearing in Polish and French films, as well as German films. His last film role was in the Stellio Lorenzi-directed French television film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky novel Crime and Punishment (Crime et châtiment), filmed in 1970 and released in 1971. Chmara died in France in 1970.

Selected filmography

Gregori Chmara as Raskolnikow, 1923

• Raskolnikow (1923) as Rodion Raskolnikow
• I.N.R.I. (1923) as Jesus Christ
• The House by the Sea (1924) as Enrico
• Hedda Gabler (1925) as Eilert Lövborg
• Joyless Street (1925) as Pjotr Orlow
• Athletes (1925) as Dr. Kürer
• Living Buddhas (1925) as Jebsun
• The Case of Prosecutor M (1928) as Poljarin
• Orient (1928)
• Rasputin (1928) as Grigori Rasputin
• A Strong Man (1929)
• The Man Who Murdered (1931) as Prince Cernuwicz
• The Black Hussar (1932) as Prince Potovski
• Man Without a Name (1932)
• Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1932) as the pasha
• A Friend Will Come Tonight (1946) as the monocle-wearing German officer
• Mission in Tangier (1949) as the Russian singer
• Mannequins of Paris (1956) as Boris
• Elena and Her Men (1956) as Elena's servant
• A Bomb for a Dictator (1957) as the inquisitive passenger
• Mon pote le gitan (1959) as Grandpa
• Paris Does Not Exist (1969) as the old man

Bibliography

• Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

External links

• Gregori Chmara at IMDb