Rostislav Ivitsky was born on May 31, 1908 in Kyiv, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (1941) and Gulyashchaya (1961). He died on February 13, 1974 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine].