Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (Russian Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов; scientific transliteration Vyacheslav Tikhonov Vasil'evič; born February 8, 1928 in Pavlovsky Posad, † December 4, 2009 in Moscow) was a Russian actor and People's Artist of USSR ( 1974). He was one of the most famous actors of Russia and played in dozens of feature films, which are now among the classical legacy of the Soviet cinema.
Life
Tikhonov graduated to 1950 a drama at the film school VGIK in Moscow. He had 1948 Sergei Gerasimov in the Fadeev - film The Young Guard His film debut. In the 1960s he played successful roles in Samson Samsonov's Optimistic Tragedy (1963) and Sergei Bondarchuk War and Peace (1968), in which he portrayed the Andrei Bolkonsky. He was named in the readers' poll of the magazine " Sowjetski ekran " the best actor of the year for this service. With the multi-part television film Seventeen Moments of Spring, in which he played a Soviet spy in Nazi Germany named Max von Stierlitz, he obtained 1972/73 wide popularity.
Tikhonov has received several national awards. 1980 turned Stanislaw Rostozki ( under the pseudonym Stepan Stepanov ) about him the film portrait Professija - kinoaktjor. He was married from 1948 to 1963 to actress Nonna Mordjukowa; his two children, Vladimir Tikhonov († 1990) and his daughter Anna Tikhonova were also an actor.