Born on 17 May 1931 in Kirdeikiai village, Šėta Valsčius, Kėdainiai district.
Died on 05 12 2015 in Kaunas. Buried in Petrašiūnai Cemetery.
In 1937-1941 he studied at the schools of Pašėte, 1941-1943 - Šėta, 1943-1945 - Šėta Pro-Gymnasium. In 1945 he moved to Kaunas and studied at the Komsomol Secondary School (now Aušros Gymnasium), where he graduated in 1950 and entered the Vilnius Drama Theatre Studio. In 1951, he was called up for compulsory service in the Soviet army. In 1953, he returned and joined the drama faculty of the Vilnius State Conservatoire (now the Academy of Music and Theatre). He graduated in 1957 as an actor. In 1956, he started working at the Kapsukas (now Marijampolė) Drama Theatre. In 1958 he moved to Kaunas Young Spectator's Theatre, and in 1959, when the theatre was reorganised, he was appointed to Kaunas State Drama Theatre (now the National Kaunas Drama Theatre). He worked there until 2003, and then for another 7 years under separate one-off contracts. During the years of his creative work at the theatre he has created over 100 roles. Around 1980, he was invited to the newly established satirical club of artists and writers "Šaipokai" in Kaunas, where he and his colleagues began to prepare satire and humour evenings, of which well over 100 took place in Lithuania during the 1980s. He wrote scripts for competitions of agitprop collectives, won prizes, and created a dozen stage works, six of which were staged at the Kaunas State Puppet Theatre, one at the Panevėžys Puppet Theatre, and two at the Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre. He has acted in a number of Lithuanian television productions (Augustinas Griciaus' Palanga, Balys Sruoga's Cloverleaf, Anton Chekhov's The Maiden, Antanas Keturakis' America at the Bathhouse, etc.) He has been an active member of public life for over thirty years and was a member of the Kaunas Drama Theatre Council.