Algimantas Masiulis was a Lithuania

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n film

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 and theater actor

Actor

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.

Masiulis appeared in his first play

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 in the autumn of 1948, in Schoolgirl

Schoolgirl

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, where he played the role of a gym student. The play was directed by his teacher, Juozas Miltinis. Over the course of his career, Masiulis portrayed over 90 characters. Masiulis appeared in Lithuanian, Russia

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n and Soviet

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 productions.

He performed at the Panevezys Drama Theatre for many years before joining the Kaunas Drama Theatre in 1978. Masiulis also devoted more time to his drawings and art during the latter part of his life.

Masiulis was awarded the 3rd Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

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 in 1998 for his work in cinema

Film

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 and theater.

Algimantas Masiulis died on August 19, 2008, at the age of 77 in the city of Kaunas

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, Lithuania

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.

Film

• Adam Wants to Be a Man (1956)
• Nobody Wanted to Die
  Nobody Wanted to Die
  Nobody Wanted to Die is a 1966 Lithuanian film made in Soviet Lithuania and directed by Vytautas Žalakevičius. Žalakevičius, actor Donatas Banionis, and cinematographer Jonas Gricius were awarded USSR State Prize for the film in 1967.-Cast:...
  
  (1966)
• Shield and Sward aka Щит и меч (1968)
• Herkus Mantas (1972)
• The Autumn of My Childhood (1977)
• American Tragedy
  American Tragedy
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  (1981)
• Faktas
  Faktas
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  (1981)
• Flight Over Atlantic Ocean (1982)
• Kai aš buvau partizanas (2008)

Television

• Criminal Stories television series (1995–1996)
• Kamenskaja (1999)