 He appeared in many of the Bulgarian film classics such as "We Were Young" (1961), "The Tied Up Balloon" (1967), "The Eighth" (1969), "Thorn Apple" (1972), "Matriarchy" (1977) and probably his most notable role as Yordan in "A Peasant on a Bicycle" (1974) for which he received an award for Best Actor at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival in 1975.He was born as Georgi Ivanov Georgiev on October 4, 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, today neighborhood of the town of Elena, Bulgaria.In 1947, after finishing the secondary school, he went to Sofia where he enrolled in acting at The National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts graduating in 1953.