Viktor Dobrovolsky was born on January 23, 1906 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Odessa Oblast, Ukraine] as Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolskiy. He was an actor and director, known for Seym vykhodit iz beregov (1962), Pravda (1957) and Battle Beyond the Sun (1959). He died on July 28, 1984 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].