Mikhail Vavich (Russian: Михаил Иванович Вавич) was a Russian singer and actor who worked in Hollywood in the silent era.
Biography
Born and raised in Odessa, Mikhail Vavitch first performed in 1905 on stage at St. Petersburg in a private operetta by Petr Tumpakov. He received recognition in 1906 after performing the role of the Viscount Cascada in the operetta The Merry Widow by Lehar. From 1905 thru 1918 he worked in the operetta theaters of St. Petersburg and Moscow. From the season of 1908/1909 Vavitch became an actor of a troupe of the Moscow theater, Hermitage.
In 1914 he married the drama actress Tatyana Pavlova, with her he acted in several movies.
In 1917, he emigrated to Europe. At the beginning of the 1920s, Vavitch moved to the United States, living and working in Los Angeles, probably with the encouragement of Joseph Schenck.[1] He periodically appeared in operetta.
