Background
DOBRONRAVOV, Boris was born on April 4, 1896 in Moscow. Son of a priest.
DOBRONRAVOV, Boris was born on April 4, 1896 in Moscow. Son of a priest.
Studied at Mathematics Department, Moscow University.
1915 passed competitive examinations and joined Moscow Arts Theater. 1919 organized in Ufa a company to perform for army units. 1920-1921 performed in North Caucasian cities.
1922-1924 on tour with Moscow Arts Theater in Germany, Czechoslovakia, France and America. From 1920 film actor. Roles: in theater: Vas'ka PepcI in Gorky's Na dne (The Lower Depths) (1924).
Narkis in Ostrovskiy’s Goryacheye serdtse (A Warm Heart) (1926). Captain Myshlayevskiy in Bulgakov’s Dni Turbinykh (Days of the Turbin Family) (1926). Tikhon in Ostrovskiy’s Groza (The Thunderstorm) (1934).
Title role in Korneychuk’s Platon Krechet (1935). Lopakhin in Chekhov's Vishnyovyy sad (The Cherry Orchard) (1935). Yarovoy in Lyubov’ Yarovaya (1936).
Listrat in Virta’s Zemlya (The Earth) (1937). Tsar’ Fyodor in A. K. Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1940). Safonov in Simonov’s Russkiye lyudi (Russian People) (1943).
Voynitskiy in Chekhov's Dyadya Vanya (Uncle Vanya) (1947). In films: Stepan in Domovoy agitator (The House Agitator) (1920). Yegor Yefimov in Peterburgskaya nodi (Saint St. Petersburg Night) (1934).
Shabanov in ’’Aerograd” (1935). Gromov in Zaklyuchyonnye (The Prisoners) (1936). Davydov in Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned) (1940).
Commission chairman in Povest’ o nastoyashchem cheloveke (Tale of a Real Manitoba) (1948), et cetera