Leonid Aleksandrovich Kmit (born Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kmita; russian: Алексей Александрович Кмита́; 9 March 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet and Russian actor. In 1931 he graduated from
Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy (SPbGATI), where he studied in the acting class of Yevgeny Chervyakov. In 1936 he was invited to join the
Russian Army Theatre's company. In 1957 he became an actor of the Screen Actors Theater in Moscow.
Kmit performed in more than thirty films from 1929 to 1982. He is best known for his performance as Petka in ''
Chapaev
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev (russian: link=no, Василий Иванович Чапаев; 5 September 1919) was a Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.
Biography
Chapayev was born into a poor peasan ...
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Selected filmography
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1908 births
1982 deaths
20th-century Russian male actors
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Russian male film actors
Soviet male film actors
Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery
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