Grigori Roshal was born on 21 October 1899 (according to other sources either on 20 October 1899 or in 1898), in the city of
Novozybkov (now
Bryansk Oblast, Russia). After graduating from the Tenishev School in
Saint Petersburg, he was employed at the
People's Commissariat for Education of
Ukraine and
Crimea between the years 1918 and 1919. Since 1919, he was an instructor at the People's Commissariat of
Azerbaijan, selected as head of the artistic and educational part of the children's playground in
Zheleznovodsk. In 1921, he moved to
Moscow to work in the People's Commissariat for Russia as an instructor in the school theater, was chairman of the Council on Arts Education Main Department of Social Education and taught the subject of theater at the Central House of the communist education of the working youth. From 1921 to 1923, he studied at the State Higher Director's Workshops of
Vsevolod Meyerhold (GVYRM) created in 1921 by Vsevolod Meyerhold and his pupil
Konstantin Derzhavin which were revised in 1923, and conducted under the name GEKTEMAS - State Experimental Theater Workshop in 1931. Since 1923, he worked as a theater director. He supervised the Pedagogical Workshop Theatre and has staged a number of performances. Until 1927 was the director and artistic manager of the theater. From 1925, he was director of the third factory of
Goskino, the studio
Belgoskino,
Mezhrabpomfilm and
All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration (VUFKU). As of 1931, he was the director of
Mosfilm and director of the
Lenfilm film studio in the years 1947-1954. In 1949, he wrote a chapter on Soviet cinema for the book "Experiment in Film". Was appointed as teacher at the
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography from 1953 to 1964. In 1957, the headed the All-Union Committee for Work with film enthusiasts under the rule of the Cinematographers Union of the USSR. In the 1970s, he taught at the
Moscow State Art and Cultural University giving a course for new specialist-teachers directing of amateur film studios. Founder and artistic director of the film department in this university. Grigori Roshal died in Moscow and was buried at the
Kuntsevo Cemetery. ==Family==