Yulian Aleksandrovich Panich (; 23 May 1931 – 9 October 2023) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, and journalist. He was appointed
Honored Artist of Russia
Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also known as Honored Artist of Russia, is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is awarded to actors, directors, filmmakers, writers, d ...
in 1996.
Biography
Yulian Aleksandrovich Panich was born in
Kirivigrad/Zinovyevsk on 23 May 1931. After graduating from the
Shchukin Acting School in
Moscow
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in 1954, Panich had a successful career of a Soviet film actor. In 1965 he began working as a television and film director.
In 1972, Yulian Panich left the Soviet Union for Israel. Later that year he was offered a job in Munich with the
Radio Liberty
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/
Free Europe radio. Soon Panich became chief program producer with the Russian service (Radio Svoboda) and the symbol of anti-Soviet resistance. As such he was the object of special interest by the
KGB
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.
Personal life and death
After his retirement in 1995, Panich lived in the suburbs of
Rambouillet
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in
Paris
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.
Panich was married to Ludmila Zweig from 1956. They had a son, Igor Panich (born 1958) who is a writer.
Yulian Panich died on 9 October 2023, at the age of 92.
Filmography
* ''
Road to Life'' (1955) as Semyon
* ''
For the Power of the Soviets'' (1956) as Svyatoslav Marchenko
* ''Bloody Dawn'' (1956) as Marco Hushcha
* ''
Different Fortunes'' (1956) as Fedor Morozov
* ''
Three Hundred Years Ago...'' (1956) as
Tymofiy Khmelnytsky
Tymofiy Bohdanovych Khmelnytsky or Tymish Bohdanovych Khmelnytsky (; 1632 — 15 September 1653) was a Zaporozhian Cossack military commander. He was the eldest son of the Ukrainian Cossack Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
He was married to the Mol ...
* ''Total Expensive'' (1957) as Roman Baklanov
* ''
Leningrad Symphony
Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Opus number, Op. 60, nicknamed the ''Leningrad Symphony'', was begun in Leningrad, completed in the city of Samara (then known as Kuybyshev) in December 1941, and premiered in that city on March 5, ...
'' (1957) as episode
* ''Stepan Kolchugin'' (1958) as Kuzma
* ''Kochubey'' (1958) as Sashko Nalivayko
* ''About My Friend'' (1958) as Aram
* ''
Be Careful, Grandma!'' (1960) as Vasya Kazatchkov
* ''Reflections'' (1960) as episode
* ''Novels Red House'' (1963) as Maxim Sivoshapko
* ''
The Green Carriage'' (1967) as Prince Vasili
* ''Pervorossiyane'' (1968) as Ataman Shurakov
* ''Seeing the White Nights'' (1969) as director
References
External links
*
Юлиан Панич. На театрах. Актёрская исповедь
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1931 births
2023 deaths
Soviet male actors
People from Kropyvnytskyi
Soviet dissidents
Radio and television announcers
Soviet emigrants to Germany
Soviet emigrants to France
20th-century Russian male actors