Boris de Fast
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| birth_date = July 6, 1890
| birth_place = Feodosia, Crimea, Russian Empire
| death_date = post 1966
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| othername = Boris Fastovich
Boris De Fas
| occupation = Actor, screenwriter, film editor and makeup artist
| yearsactive = 1924-1967 (film)
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Boris de Fast (July 6, 1890 – 1973) was a Russian actor, screenwriter, film editor and make-up artist.Waldman p. 141{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZNZAAAAMAAJ&q=Boris+de+Fast+acteur |title=Positif |date=1988 |publisher=Nouvelles éditions Opta |language=fr}} Born in Feodosia, Crimea in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to France, where he worked in the film industry.{{Cite web |title=Boris de Fast - Unifrance |url=https://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/135137/boris-de-fast |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=en.unifrance.org}} His rare performances in American films include a strange villainous performance in Tempest (1928) and a role in The Woman Disputed.{{Cite book |last1=Jeanne |first1=René |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYoKAAAAMAAJ&q=Boris+de+Fast+acteur |title=Histoire encyclopédique du cinéma: Le cinéma américain, 1895-1945 |last2=Ford |first2=Charles |date=1947 |publisher=R. Laffont |language=fr}}
Selected filmography
=Actor=
- The Masked Woman (1924)
- Michel Strogoff (1926){{Cite book |last=Marmin |first=Michel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bL1z04FBRIIC&q=Boris+de+Fast+acteur |title=Le cinéma: grande histoire illustrée du 7e art |date=1982 |publisher=Editions Atlas |isbn=978-2-7312-0172-7 |language=fr}}
- En plongée (1926)
- Napoleon (1927)
- Princess Masha (1927)
- The Woman Disputed (1928)
- Tempest (1928)
- Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1928)
- Volga Volga (1928)
- Land Without Women (1929)
- The Ship of Lost Souls (1929)
- The Ring of the Empress (1930)
- La Femme d'une nuit (1931)
- Queen of the Night (1931)
- The Man with a Broken Ear (1934)
=Editor=
- The Orderly (1933)
- Les yeux noirs (1935)
- The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937)
- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1938)
=Screenwriter=
- Volga in Flames (1934)
References
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Bibliography
- Waldman, Harry. Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2001.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0208314}}
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Category:Year of death unknown
Category:Male actors from the Russian Empire
Category:French male film actors