Vasadze Akaki A. (25.07 (06.08) .1899), American actor-director, People's Artist of USSR (1936).
Member of the CPSU from 1939. In 1917 he began to stage activities. From 1920 he worked at the Georgian Theatre. Rustaveli (Tbilisi), in 1935-55 Sec. director.
Roles: Francis Moore ["Rogue" ("Intirannos!") Schiller], Darispan ("Autumn nobles" Kldiashvili) Kikvidze ("Combrig Kikvidze" Daraseli), Ananias ("Treason" Sumbatov), Abdul-Sadiq ("Sunken Stones "Mosashvili), Iago (" Othello "by Shakespeare), Shuya (" Great Tsar "Solovyov), etc. Plays:" Arsen "Shanshiashvili (1936)," The Brigade Commander Kikvidze "(1941)," Sunken Stones "(1951) and others .
Vasadze – acute character actor, his mastery of the art of different social typing, a variety of expressive means.
In 1958 Sec. director of the Georgia Theatre. L. Meskhishvili (Kutaisi); staged: "Exile" Vaja Pshavela (1958), "Dawn of Colchis" Lord kipanidze (1959), etc.
Since 1969 actor Rustavi Georgian Theatre. Since 1923, acted in movies. Between 1924 and has been teaching, Professor (1947) Tbilisi Theatrical Institute on them. Rustaveli.
Member of the Georgian Supreme Council 1-4-th convocations. USSR State Prize (1942, 1946, 1951).
He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, two other orders and medals.
Lit.: Mark P., Vasadze in the book. : People's Artists of the USSR, Moscow – Leningrad, 1937.