Mikhail Pokotilo was born on June 21, 1906 in village Borshna, Priluki uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire as Mikhail Fyodorovich Pokotilo. He was an actor, known for Pedagogicheskaya poema (1955), V odin prekrasnyy den (1956) and Partizanskaya iskra (1957). He died on September 1, 1971 in Kiev, Kiev Oblast, Ukranian SSR, USSR.