Eduards Smiļģis (23 November 1886 – 19 April 1966) was a Latvian actor and theatre director. He became a
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Nomenclature and significan ...
in 1948.
Smiļģis founded the
Dailes Theatre
The Dailes Theatre ( lv, Dailes teātris) is a professional Latvian theater founded by Latvian director and actor Eduards Smiļģis (1886-1966) on November 19, 1920 at the Craftsmen Relief Society House at Lāčplēša Street 25, Riga, Latvia. T ...
in Riga in 1920 and was its chief director until 1965. His home in
Pārdaugava is now the Eduards Smiļģis Theater Museum.
Live Riga
Retrieved 20 November 2015.
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1886 births
1966 deaths
Theatre people from Riga
Latvian male stage actors
Soviet male stage actors
Latvian theatre directors
Soviet theatre directors
People's Artists of the USSR
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Lenin Prize winners
Stalin Prize winners
20th-century Latvian male actors
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