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An actor/director on the Soviet stage, Leo Bulgakov emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1920s. Bulgakov came to Hollywood as a director at Columbia Pictures, helming three programmers back-to-back in 1935 (White Lies, I'll Love You Always, After the Dance). He turned to film acting in the 1940s, when the demand for foreign-accented performers was at its peak. Leo Bulgakov's best film roles included General Golz in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and Jan Vankovitch in And Now Tomorrow (1944).