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Viktor Tourjansky (Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhanskiy) was born on 4 March, 1891 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine], is a director,writer,actor. Discover Viktor Tourjansky's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhanskiy
Occupation director,writer,actor
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 4 March, 1891
Birthday 4 March
Birthplace Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Date of death 13 August, 1976
Died Place Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality Ukraine

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His wife is Nathalie Kovanko (1917 - 1935) ( divorced) ( 1 child)

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Viktor Tourjansky Net Worth

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1891

He was born Viacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhanski on March 4, 1891, in Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (now Kiyiv, Ukraine). Studied painting and art history.

1911

In 1911 he moved to Moscow and studied acting under Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.

1912

In 1912-1914, Tourjansky worked for Aleksandr Khanzhonkov.

He made his film debut as an actor in 'Tragedia pereproizvodstva' (1912), and co-starred in 'Brothers' (1913) by director Pyotr Chardynin, and in several other silent films.

1913

The director Victor Tourjansky already entered the film business in 1913 where he first appeared as an actor in some Russian silent movies.

1914

From 1914-1919 he worked in Yalta for Joseph N. Ermolieff, owner of one of the most successful Russian silent-film companies. At that time Tourjansky directed over twenty silent films in Russia.

1917

Viktor Tourjansky was a Russian film director who emigrated after the communist revolution of 1917, and worked in France, Germany, USA, UK, and Italy.

Tourjansky suffered terribly from the loss of his property after the Communist Revolution of 1917.

1919

However, he continued working in Yalta with Ermolieff until the end of 1919. But when the Red Army advanced in Crimea and reached Yalta, he joined the White Russians and fled the communist Russia at the end of the Civil War.

1920

Tourjansky managed to save a few rolls of his silent films, which he took aboard the Greek steamer "Pantera" in February of 1920. He left Russia together with his film partners from the Ermolieff film company, actors Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nicolas Koline and Nicolas Rimsky, actress Nathalie Lissenko, his wife Nathalie Kovanko, cinematographer Nikolai Toporkoff and producer Joseph N. Ermolieff. They emigrated together to Paris, France, and started a Russian-French film company. In Paris, Tourjansky changed his first name to Viktor (Victor) and continued his collaboration with Russian producers Alexandre Kamenka and Joseph N. Ermolieff.

During 1920s and 1930s he also collaborated with producer Gregor Rabinovitch and directed films for various French, British, and German studios. Tourjansky often filmed his wife, Russian actress Nathalie Kovanko. She starred in fourteen of his films made in Russia and Europe. Eventually Tourjansky separated from Nathalie Kovanko, and later she returned to the Soviet Union. Bethween WWI and WWII, Tourjansky directed over thirty French, British, American, and Franco-German films.

1921

When he went to France later he took part in few more movies as an actor like "La pocharde" (1921).

1927

He collaborated with director Abel Gance on the innovative film Napoleon (1927).

In 1927 Tourjansky came to Hollywood.

There, from 1927 - 1930, he worked at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios where he re-united with his former teacher, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who visited from Russia.

In Hollywood Tourjansky was hired to direct After Midnight (1927), but he questioned the talent of Norma Shearer, mentioning that the "Queen of MGM" had a cross-eyed stare, without knowing that she was about to marry Irving Thalberg, the powerful MGM producer.

1928

Tourjansky was co-director of the Academy Award-winning film Tempest (1928), albeit he was uncredited.

Tourjansky was fired from the project, and was sent to co-direct a western, The Adventurer (1928), on location in the inhospitable Mohave Desert. After he suffered for several weeks working in the sandy, windy, and hot desert, and dealing with nerve-wrecking logistical problems, Tourjansky did not achieve the result he wanted for the film. He became disillusioned and dissatisfied, and never wanted to direct another Hollywood film. Back in Paris, Tourjansky opened his own office and re-established himself among the French-Russian film community. He was tirelessly wooing investors for his new projects, networking among intellectuals and businessmen of all backgrounds, including famous Russian émigrés in Paris, such as Aleksandr Kuprin and Yevgeni Zamyatin, as well as French, German, and British producers. Eventually his persistence and determination produced successful results.

1930

Tourjansky himself had several personal meetings with the Reichskanzler during the late 1930s, and was summoned to make several propaganda films, such as Feinde (1940). As a consequence his reputation among the cosmopolitan film community had suffered. After the Second World War, he lived in Munich, and worked for various film studios with various results.

1931

In 1931, Tourjansky spotted then unknown 21-year-old Simone Simon on the terrace of the Café de la Paix.

He made her a famous actress after their first film together, Le chanteur inconnu (1931) (The Unknown Singer 1931).

1935

Tourjansky and Simon worked together again in Les yeux noirs (1935).

1936

In 1936 he was hired by UFA-Film and moved to Potsdam-Babelsberg, then to Munich, Bavaria. There he worked for the rest of his life as film director and producer.

1938

Tourjansky made success with The Blue Fox (1938) (The Blue Fox 1938), a comedy starring Swedish actress Zarah Leander, who was rumoured to be a Soviet-controlled agent and a mistress of Adolf Hitler.

1944

His last film made in the Nazi Germany, a criminal drama Orient-Express (1944), was released after the war.

1950

In 1950, he directed Der Mann, der zweimal leben wollte (1950) (The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice 1950), a film starring the famous Russian émigré actress Olga Tschechowa.

During the 1950s and 1960s he was wintering in Italy and worked there as producer and writer under the artistic name Arnaldo Genoino.

1959

Later Tourjansky directed period epic films, such as Herod the Great (1959), Prisoner of the Volga (1959), The Cossacks (1960), and The Pharaohs' Woman (1960), some of which were considered among his better works.