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Weyland Rodd - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born in the USA, he was the first black performer of the role of "Othello" in the "white" troupe (New York). In the early 1930s he came to the USSR with his white American wife, a pianist. The Soviet Union became a second home for him.
In 1938 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts (directing department), worked in the theater under V.E. Meyerhold, starred in many Soviet films. He was a "regular" black man of Soviet cinema, when there was practically no communication with foreign countries, and a black man gathered a crowd of onlookers on the street.
