Kote Daushvili

Kote Daushvili
კოტე დაუშვილი
Born
Konstantine Daushvili

(1909-03-19)19 March 1909
Baku, Russian Empire
Died5 July 1980(1980-07-05) (aged 71)
Resting place
Tbilisi
OccupationActor
Years active1927–1980

Konstantine "Kote" Davidis dze Daushvili (Georgian: კონსტანტინე (კოტე) დავითის ძე დაუშვილი; 19 March 1909 – 5 July 1980) was a Georgian stage and film actor. One of the early figures of Georgian cinema, he appeared in more than forty films over five decades and was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1958.[1][2]

Early life and stage career

Daushvili was born on 19 March 1909 in Baku, in the Russian Empire.[1] He began his stage career in 1927, working in the late 1920s at the Red Army Theatre in Tbilisi and, from around 1930, at the Kote Marjanishvili State Theatre, where he became one of the company's leading actors.[1] He also performed at the Georgian theatre in Baku in the mid-1930s.[1]

His stage roles included Knurov in Alexander Ostrovsky's Without a Dowry and Gela in a stage adaptation of Alexander Kazbegi's The Patricide.[1]

Film career

Daushvili appeared in films from 1931 and is regarded as one of the figures who stood at the origins of Georgian cinema.[1] Among his notable screen roles were Tripili in Giorgi Saakadze (1942), Bodokia in The Right Hand of the Grand Master (1970), and Tsitsikore in Tengiz Abuladze's The Wishing Tree (1976).[1] He also appeared in Georgiy Daneliya's Mimino (1977).[1]

Awards and honours

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Death

Daushvili died on 5 July 1980 and was buried in Tbilisi.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Kote Daushvili". Georgian Biographical Dictionary. National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  2. ↑ Georgia: Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. Tbilisi. 2012. p. 336 (in Georgian).
  3. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении орденами и медалями артистов театров Грузинской ССР" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka. No. 253. 12 November 1950. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 May 2024.
  4. ↑ "Указ о присвоении почетных званий деятелям искусств Грузинской ССР" (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta Gruzinskoy Sovetskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki (in Russian). No. 2. April 1958. pp. 57–58.
  5. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета Армянской ССР о присвоении Даушвили К. Д., Магалашвили Э. Г. и Чиаурели C. M. почетного звания народного артиста Армянской ССР" (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta Armyanskoy Sovetskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki. No. 14. 31 July 1979.

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