Gregori Chmara

Gregori Mikhailovich Chmara was a Ukrainian-born stage and film actor whose career spanned six decades.

Biography

Born in Poltava, Russian Empire, 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, filmed in 1970 and released in 1971. Chmara died in France in 1970.

Selected filmography

Raskolnikow as Rodion RaskolnikowI.N.R.I. as Jesus ChristThe House by the Sea as EnricoHedda Gabler as Eilert LövborgJoyless Street as Pjotr OrlowAthletes as Dr. KürerLiving Buddhas as JebsunThe Case of Prosecutor M as PoljarinOrient Rasputin as Grigori RasputinA Strong Man The Man Who Murdered as Prince CernuwiczThe Black Hussar as Prince PotovskiMan Without a Name Peter Voss, Thief of Millions as the pashaA Friend Will Come Tonight as the monocle-wearing German officerMission in Tangier as the Russian singerMannequins of Paris as BorisElena and Her Men as Elena's servantA Bomb for a Dictator as the inquisitive passengerMon pote le gitan as GrandpaParis Does Not Exist as the old man