- Born
- Died
- Birth nameIvan Nikolai Desnitskij
- Height6′ 0¾″ (1.85 m)
- Ivan Desny was born on December 28, 1922 in Peking, China [now Beijing, China]. He was an actor, known for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Madeleine (1950) and Wrong Move (1975). He was married to Ghislaine Arsac. He died on April 13, 2002 in Ascona, Switzerland.
- SpouseGhislaine Arsac(1985 - May 10, 1991) (her death)
- Interned in a German labor camp during World War II.
- Of Russian origin.
- Fluent in German and French.
- Son of a Russian diplomat. Studied acting in Paris and first appeared on stage in France at the Theatre de la Michodiere. Appeared in post-war French films as debonair leading man, as well as doing occasional work as costume and set designer. Later went on to international co-productions in France, Germany and Italy.
- Ivan Desny appears both in "Anastasia: Die letze Zarentochter" (1956) and the Ingrid Bergman film "Anastasia" (1956). In the former, he plays the real-life Gleb Botkin (son of the Imperial family's doctor, who was shot along with them in the 1918 massacre); in the latter, he plays the fictional Prince Paul Von Haraldsberg.
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