Juozas Budraitis was born on 6 October, 1940, in the village of Liepynai (Lithuania). For twenty one year he tried to make it into cinema, but the present collaboration began only after five years. He became one of the Lithuanian actors actively playing in the cinema. Besides Lithuania he worked in the studios of Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and also in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany. For a short time he worked in the theater of city Kaunas.