Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Acting
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (23 July 1946 — 2 December 1995) was a Soviet actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as Stalker, At Home Among Strangers, and The Bodyguard.
Prior to pursuing an acting career, Kaydanovskiy attended technical college where he trained to become a welder. In 1965 he started studying acting at The Rostov Theatre School and the Shchukin theatrical school in Moscow. Before completing the course he took his first part in the film The Mysterious Wall and upon graduation in 1969, he worked as stage actor, making his debut at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1969. In 1971, he was invited to join the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre, a rare privilege for a 25-year-old graduate.
He made his major film debut in At Home Among Strangers, and over the next few years appeared in some two dozen films, including the satirical comedy Diamonds for Dictatorship of the Proletariat and The Life of Beethoven. At his peak in the '70s Kaidanovsky was among the USSR’s most popular actors, and it was at this point that famed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, impressed by the looks and the acting technique of Kaidanovsky in Diamonds, invited him to play the title role in his new film, Stalker. The role earned Kaydanovskiy international acclaim.
In 1985 he directed A Simple Death, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he directed Just Death, which was about the death of Leo Tolstoy.
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Date of Birth:
1946-07-23
Country:
Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
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Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
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Filmography of
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
... 1996
Kriouchoff
... 1996
Maxim
... 1994
Damian
... 1993
... 1993
Himself, Tarkovsky's actor
... 1992
Narrator (voice)
... 1992
Narrator (voice)
... 1988
Sir Lancelot
... 1988
Филипп Ломбард
... 1987
... 1987
... 1985
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Pranas
... 1982
Valentin Orlov
... 1982
Stanislav
... 1981
... 1981
Николай Вараксин
... 1980
Эймс
... 1980
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Stalker
... 1979
Nowak
... 1979
Mirzo
... 1979
... 1978
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doctor
... 1978
Reading poem (voice)
... 1977
поручик Зайченко
... 1977
бывший царский офицер Кирилл Зимин
... 1977
Джон Уортинг
... 1976
... 1976
... 1976
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Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)
... 1975
... 1975
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Поручик Лемке
... 1974
Костя
... 1974
... 1973
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Джэк Стэплтон
... 1971
Messenger
... 1971
Граф Карнеев
... 1970
Sergeant
... 1970
... 1969
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Jules Landeau
... 1967
... 1967