Swiss actor
Of Russian origin.
One of his favorite hobbies was painting.
Fluent in German and French.
Interned in a German labor camp during World War II.
Son of a Russian diplomat. Studied acting in Paris and first appeared on stage in France at the Theatre de la Michodiere. Appeared in post-war French films as debonair leading man, as well as doing occasional work as costume and set designer. Later went on to international co-productions in France, Germany and Italy.
Ivan Desny appears both in "Anastasia: Die letze Zarentochter" and the Ingrid Bergman film "Anastasia". In the former, he plays the real-life Gleb Botkin (son of the Imperial familys doctor, who was shot along with them in the 1918 massacre); in the latter, he plays the fictional Prince Paul Von Haraldsberg.
