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