Vadim Uraneff

Vadim Uraneff (6 February 1895 – 5 April 1952) was a Russian actor^[1] and librettist who helped John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn when it was hoped they would appear in The Song of Solomon.^[2]

Vadim Uraneff
Born	Вадим Уранев (1895-02-06)6 February 1895 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	5 April 1952(1952-04-05) (aged 57) Duarte, California, United States
Occupation(s)	Actor, librettist, mime and theater critic

He was also a mime who played Lucianus in Hamlet in the Ballet Russe.^[3] As theater critic, he explained in 1923:

The [vaudeville] actor works with the idea of an immediate response from the audience: and with regard to its demands. By cutting out everything -every line, gesture, movement- to which the audience does not react and by improvising new thins, he establishes unusual unity between the audience and himself... Stylization in gesture, pose, misen-scène and make-up follows as a result of long experiment before the primitive spectator whose power as judge is absolute.^[4][5]

He translated the lyric drama Star (The) Woman from Russian alongside P. Colum.^[6]

He directed the theatre drama Anathema by L. N. Andreev at the Apollo Theater, New York.^[7]

He is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.^[8]

Filmography

• I Believed in You (1934) as Xandy vendor
• Friends and Lovers (1931) as Ivanoff^[9]
• The Medicine Man (1930) as Gus
• Midnight Madness (1928) as Joe
• Fazil (1928) as Ahmed.^[10]
• Once and Forever (1927) as Axel
• Little Mickey Grogan (1927) as Crooked
• The Magic Flame (1927) as the visitor.^[11]
• The Flame of the Yukon (1926) as Solo Jim
• Siberia (1926) as Kyrill Vronsky
• The Blonde Saint (1926) as Nino
• The Silent Power (1926) as Jerry Spencer
• The Sea Beast (1926) as Pip^[12]