Mikheil Chubinidze

Mikheil Chubinidze
მიხეილ ჩუბინიძე
Born(1910-02-28)28 February 1910
Tiflis, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedMarch 2006
Tbilisi, Georgia
Resting place
Saburtalo Pantheon, Tbilisi
OccupationsActor, theatre director
Years active1929–2006

Mikheil Dimitris dze Chubinidze (Georgian: მიხეილ ჩუბინიძე; 28 February 1910 – March 2006) was a Georgian stage and film actor and theatre director. A pupil of Kote Marjanishvili and a leading actor of the Georgian theatre in Sukhumi, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1982.[1]

Career

Chubinidze began his stage career in 1929 and worked in the 1930s at theatres in Chiatura, Gori and elsewhere.[1] From 1940 he was an actor of the Georgian company of the State Drama Theatre in Sukhumi, where he made his debut in the major role of Giorgi Saakadze in Sandro Shanshiashvili's Uncrowned Kings.[1]

Among his stage roles were the title role in Aleksandre Kazbegi's Khevisberi Gocha, the President in Schiller's Intrigue and Love, the title role in Shakespeare's Othello, and the title role in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.[1] He also worked as a theatre director.[1] In cinema, he played Nugzar Eristavi in the film Khevisberi Gocha (1964).[1]

Awards and honours

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Death

Chubinidze died in Tbilisi in March 2006, aged 96, and was buried at the Saburtalo Pantheon.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h მიხეილ ჩუბინიძე [Mikheil Chubinidze]. Georgian Biographical Dictionary (in Georgian). National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 7 June 2026.

Further reading

  • Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. Tbilisi. 1987. p. 166 (in Georgian).
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