Eduards Smiļģis

{{Short description|Latvian actor and theatre director}}

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| name = Eduards Smiļģis

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1886|11|23|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|04|19|1886|11|23|df=yes}}

| death_place = Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union

| occupation = Actor, theatre director

| years_active = 1906–1966

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| awards = People's Artist of the USSR (1948)

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Eduards Smiļģis (23 November 1886 – 19 April 1966) was a Latvian and Soviet actor and theatre director.{{cite book|author = Howard Jarvis,Tim Ochser| title=DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. p.364. | date=3 June 2013 | isbn=9781409331421 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nIciZvR2k48C&q=history+of+dailes+theatre+and+Eduards+Smilgis&pg=PA364|accessdate=1 January 2015}} He became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1948.

Smiļģis founded the Dailes Theatre in Riga in 1920 and was its chief director until 1965. His home in Pārdaugava is now the Eduards Smiļģis Theater Museum.[https://www.liveriga.com/en/1567-eduards-smilgis-theatre-museum Live Riga] Retrieved 20 November 2015.