Grigory Chukhray

Grigory Chukhray
Born
Grigory Naumovich Chukhray

(1921-05-23)23 May 1921
Melitopol, Ukrainian SSR
Died28 October 2001(2001-10-28) (aged 80)
Moscow, Russia
Resting placeVagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1956–1984
Notable work
TitlePeople's Artist of the USSR (1981)
Awards

Grigory Naumovich Chukhray (Russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й; Ukrainian: Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 28 October 2001) was a Ukrainian Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.[1] People's Artist of the USSR (1981).[2] He's the father of the Russian film director Pavel Chukhray.

  1. ^ Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova (2019). The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. Bloomsbury. p. 1968. ISBN 978-1838718497.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // main editor Sergei Yutkevich (1987). — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 640 pages