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Richard Boleslavsky

Polish-born director
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Also known as: Bolesław Ryszard Śrzednicki, Richard Bolesławski, Richard Boleslavski
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Boleslavsky also spelled:
Bolesławski, Boleslavski, or Boleslawski
Original name:
Bolesław Ryszard Śrzednicki
Born:
February 4, 1889, Dębowa Góra, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]
Died:
January 17, 1937, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (aged 47)
Notable Works:
“Men in White”
“Painted Veil, The”
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Richard Boleslavsky (born February 4, 1889, Dębowa Góra, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died January 17, 1937, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) motion-picture and stage director who introduced the Stanislavsky method of acting to the United States. He directed such popular American films of the 1930s as Rasputin and the Empress (1932), Les Misérables (1935), and Theodora Goes Wild (1936). Boleslavsky first acted onstage in Odessa in 1904, and in 1906 he entered the school of the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) under director Konstantin Stanislavsky. In the Stanislavsky method of acting, playing a character onstage is as much a matter of ...(100 of 899 words)

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