Yuri Timoshenko was born on June 2, 1919 in Poltava, Ukraine as Georgi Trofimovich Timoshenko. He was an actor and director, known for Shtepsel zhenit Tarapunku (1957), Smekhanicheskiye priklyucheniya Tarapunki i Shtepselya (1970) and Padeniye Berlina (1950). He died on December 1, 1986 in Uzhgorod, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukranian SSR, USSR.