Gleb Romanov was born on July 24, 1920 in Tyumen, Tyumen uyezd, Tyumen Governorate, RSFSR as Gleb Vasilevich Romanov. He was an actor and writer, known for Matros s Komety (1958), Molodaya gvardiya (1948) and Admiral Ushakov (1953). He died on January 15, 1967 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].