Trivia

Interned in a German labor camp during World War II.

Of Russian origin.

Fluent in German and French.

Ivan Desny appears both in "Anastasia: Die letze Zarentochter" (1956) and the Ingrid Bergman film "Anastasia" (1956). In the former, he plays the real-life Gleb Botkin (son of the Imperial family's doctor, who was shot along with them in the 1918 massacre); in the latter, he plays the fictional Prince Paul Von Haraldsberg.

One of his favorite hobbies was painting.

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.