Vasiliy Orlov was born on December 7, 1896 in Skopin, Ryazanskaya guberniya, Russian Empire as Vasiliy Aleksandrovich Orlov. He was an actor, known for Gibel sensatsii (1935), Stalingradskaya bitva I (1949) and Stalingradskaya bitva II (1949). He died on May 9, 1974 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.