Maksim Shtraukh was born on February 23, 1900 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Erzählungen über Lenin (1958), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and Zagovor obrechyonnykh (1950). He died on January 3, 1974 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].