Viktor Dobrovolsky was born on January 23, 1906 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Odessa Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Seym vykhodit iz beregov (1962), Pravda (1957) and In friedlichen Tagen (1951). He died on July 28, 1984 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine].