Eduards Smiļģis


Eduards Smiļģis was a Latvian actor and theatre director. He became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1948.
Smiļģis founded the Dailes Theatre in Riga in 1920 and was its chief director until 1965. His home in Pārdaugava is now the Eduards Smiļģis Theater Museum.