Member of the Union of artists of the USSR. Honored artist of the RSFSR (1973). Member of the CPSU(b) since 1948. He graduated from the VGIK (1943), and later taught there. Worked on Mosk. K.-St. im.Gorky. Party productions K.-f. "Captain at fifteen" (1946, S. V. Kozlovsky), "they Have Rodina" (1950) and "Anna on the neck" (1954), "War and peace" (1966-67, with other artists), "I loved you", 1967; "a drop in the ocean", 1973; "That we do not pass" (1976), "You can not dream", 1980; "I'll wait for you" (1983) and others has Starred as an actor.