Stanislav Lyubshin
Stanislav Andreyevich Lyubshin (Russian: Станисла́в Андре́евич Любшин; born April 6, 1933) is a Russian actor, film director, and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).
Life
Stanislav Lyubshin is a Russian actor whose recognition came after his role of a spy in Shchit i mech (1968).
He was born Stanislav Andreevich Lyubshin on April 6, 1933, in the village of Vladykino, a suburb of Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. His father, Andrei Lyubshin, was an agricultural engineer, his mother was a milkmaid. Young Lyubshin was fond of theatre, he was encouraged by his parents and joined the drama class at his school. From 1955-1959 he studied acting at Shchepkin School of Maly Theatre in Moscow, graduating in 1959 as an actor.
Lyubshin made his film debut in 1959, while a student, in There Will Be No Leave Today (1959), by directors Andrey Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Gordon. He shot to fame in the Soviet Union with the leading role as Weiss/Belov, a Russian spy in Nazi Germany, in the popular film Shchit i mech (1968) by director Vladimir Basov. During the 1960s and 1970s, Lyubshin was among the most popular actors of the Soviet cinema.