Grigory Shpigel


Grigory Oyzerovich Spiegel was a Soviet and Russian actor and voice actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

Biography

He worked as a pleater at a dye factory in Leningrad. He studied at the directing department of the Central School of amateur theater in Moscow.
In 1940 he graduated from an acting school at the Mosfilm. He worked as a National Film Actors' Theatre.
He took part in voicing cartoon characters, known for his voice being unusually high pitched and sonorous for a man.

Death

Died April 28, 1981. He was buried in Moscow at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

Selected filmography

The Oppenheim Family as high-school student The Aerial Cabman as Anany SvetlovidovBallad of Siberia as Gregory GalaidaThe Young Guard as FenbongIvan Pavlov as Professor PetrushevBrave People as SchulzeZhukovsky as passer with a ladyMussorgsky as von MetzTaras Shevchenko as Karl BryullovChildren of the Partisan as spy photographerThe Gadfly as James BurtonThe Idiot as PtitsynOn Distant Shores as SchulzMichman Panin as Father TeoctistBalzaminov's Marriage as policemanTale About the Lost Time as first aid doctor / apple buyer in a hatThe Tale of Tsar Saltan as governorThe Seventh Companion as ShpigelThe Diamond Arm as pharmacist-smuggler from Fish StreetThe Twelve Chairs as Aleksandr YakovlevichThe Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers as photographerIlf and Petrov Rode a Tram as employee of the newspaperPrivalov's Millions as Oscar FilippovichNorthern Rhapsody as Gleb Petrovich ChurilinThe Twelve Chairs as chief editor of newspaper "The Machine"Three Men in a Boat as grenadierThe Luncheon on the Grass as episodeDo Not Shoot at White Swans as passenger in the compartmentSay a Word for the Poor Hussar as prompterThe Mystery of the Third Planet as Vesselchuck Oo Dog in Boots as ''one-eyed cat-bully''