Mykhailo Pokotylo was born on June 21, 1906 in village Borshna, Priluki uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Pryluky Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for V odin prekrasnyy den (1956), Partizanskaya iskra (1957) and S dnyom rozhdeniya (1962). He died on September 1, 1971 in Kiev, Kiev Oblast, Ukranian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine].