Ivan Desny (born December 28, 1922 in Beijing, the then Republic of China; April 13, 2002 in Ascona, Switzerland; Actually Ivan Nikolai Desnitzky) was a French actor russisch-schwedischer origin. He is in a box at his home in Ascona buried.

As a child of a Russian diplomats Desny was born in 1922 in Beijing. He spent his youth in Tehran, Washington, D. C., Paris and Brisbane. During the second World War Desny came in a German labor camp.

In 1956 and 1957 he played in the Falk Harnack films Anastasia, the last tsar and daughter Like a wind storm the male lead role. His partner in two films was Lilli Palmer. Later he turned alia 1974 The conscience (Touch Me Not) with Lee Remick, Michael Hinz, Ingrid Garbo and 1995 crime scene-Dangerous friendship. In the early scene of the crime-thrillers with Sieghardt Rupp as Cologne customs Kressin he embodied the mysterious Mr. Sievers, behind almost all of the crimes Kressin-Folgen stuck, but never could be. In 1980, he received the film strip in gold for many years and excellent work in the German film.

In 2002 Desny got in the criticism because, although healthy, for a newspaper article as supposedly cured cancer patients occurred . It was not approved in Germany and in effect as an anti-cancer drug highly controversial drug Galavit of Desny as a panacea against cancer advertised.

Desny died in 2002 of pneumonia.