Lev Sverdlin was born in
Astrakhan to a
Jewish family. He served in the
Red Army from 1919 to 1922, in the latter year he entered the
Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. He began to appear in movies from 1924. From 1938 to 1941, he worked as an actor in the
Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, then in
Mayakovsky Theatre from 1943 to 1969. He died from
pancreatic cancer in
Moscow at the age of 67, and was buried in the
Novodevichy Cemetery. ==Filmography==