MOSCOW, July 20 Soviet, Russian and Israeli actor Vladimir Portnov died at the age of 82, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported.
The artist passed away on July 14, but the incident became known only now. At the same time, the source did not specify the cause of the actor's death.
Vladimir Portnov played more than 100 roles in the theater, as well as about 30 in film and television. He staged performances at the Mayakovsky and Stanislavsky theaters and was the chief director at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.
The actor first appeared on the screens in 1982 in the melodrama «The Limit of Desires». One of the most striking works in the cinema for him was the role of a jeweler in «The Prisoner of If Castle» directed by Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich.
For some time Portnov taught at the Kazan Theater School. Between 1991 and 2002, he lived and worked in Israel, after which he returned to his homeland.