Bogdan Stupka

Date of Birth

27 August 1941, Kulikov, Lvov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kulykiv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine] 

Date of Death

22 July 2012, Kiev, Ukraine (heart failure) 

Birth Name

Bogdan Silvestrovich Stupka 

Mini Biography

Bogdan Stupka is one of Ukraine's most famous living actors. His most memorable stage role in the last ten years has been as Tevye the Milkman in Sholom Aleichem's Tevye-Tevel (aka... Fiddler on the Roof (1971)). After a brief stint as the Ukrainean Minister of Culture, he is the Executive Director of the Ivan Franko State Theater in Kyiv. Along with his administrative duties, Mr. Stupka continues to perform several times a week in various new and traditional productions. He also tours with his company, appears in two or three films every year, and still devotes much time to his wife of many years as well as his son Ostap Stupka and his grandchildren.