Vladimir Georgievich Shlezinger was a Soviet actor, director, teacher. Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1976). Graduated from the B. V. Shchukin Theater School in 1945, course of B. E. Zakhava, Ts. L. Mansurova. In the same year he was accepted into the troupe of the Evgeny Vakhtangov Theater. Subsequently he taught at the B. V. Shchukin Theater School, was head of the department of "Acting Skills".

One of the most popular theater directors of the Soviet Union, he staged and acted in a large number of magnificent performances - several dozen roles and productions. A master of both the comedy genre "Princess Turandot", "The Bourgeois Gentleman", and drama. Leading director of the Vakhtangov Theater during its heyday. He died on April 16, 1986 in his 64th year in Moscow.