Deich Felix (Feliks) (b. 1937, Rostov-on-Don) — actor, director and educator.

During the Second World War Felix Deich was interned in a concentration camp. He completed secondary school in Riga (1954), and graduated from the Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering at the Latvian Academy of Agriculture in Jelgava. He worked as a civil engineer specialising in hydraulic and port infrastructure projects in Riga, Kaliningrad and Novorossiysk.

In 1964 he completed the acting studio at the Riga Russian Drama Theatre, after which he took up a post as actor at the Riga Youth Theatre (1964–1992), becoming also a director from 1977. His notable character roles included Pantalone in The Green Bird by Carlo Gozzi (1971); Cat Basilio in The Adventures of Buratino in the Land of Fools by Aleksey Tolstoy (1975); Lorenzo in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1977); Muratov in Mercy, or the Adventures of Shipov by Bulat Okudzhava (1977); and Serebryakov in The Wood Demon by Anton Chekhov (1982).

As a director, he staged numerous productions including Cinderella by Evgeny Schwartz (1978); Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol (1979); Love (1981) and Andante in the Dark Room (1991) by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya; Diogenes’s Dog by David Solomon (1983); Tom Sawyer after Mark Twain (1985); A Boyhood Autumn by Boris Sabbat (1986); and Pushkin’s Last Days by Mikhail Bulgakov (1992).

From 1992 he has worked at the Valmiera Drama Theatre, directing productions such as Holy of Holies by Jānis Drūce (1996), The Forty‑First by Boris Lavrenev (1997), Yana’s Night by Gunārs Priede (1992), A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1994), The Lonely Ones by Gerhart Hauptmann, Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo, and Nininra and Aligru by Nikolajs Kassiān (all 1995); also Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) and The Evil Spirit by Rainis Blumbergs (both 1996); Ivanov (Chekhov) and Trina’s Sins by Blumbergs (both 1997); The Marriage of Munchausen by Mārtiņš Zīverts (1998) among others. His work has also appeared at theatres in Liepāja (e.g. Today’s a Holiday by Alejandro B. Vallejo, 1993; Because of That Silly Paulina by Velta Belševica, 1994), at the Cabata theatre (Little Ship in the Mist by Lina Stumbre, 1992), and at the Riga Russian Drama Theatre (Siren and Victoria by A. M. Galin, 1999).

In 1972 Deich started teaching acting—initially at the Theatre Department of the Latvian Conservatoire, and then at the Latvian Academy of Culture.