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Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Feb 08, 1928 - Dec 04, 2009 (81 years old) in Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union

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He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945 by entering, not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six years. In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in 1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her, Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969. He died on 4 December 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences to Tikhonov's family.

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Seventeen Moments of Spring
Max Otto von Stirlitz / Maksim Maksimovich Isaev
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TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
Константин Иванович Константинов, генерал КГБ
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Легенды кино
Self (archive footage)
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Battle for Moscow
читает текст от автора
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War and Peace
Andrei Bolkonsky
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The Waiting Room
Zaitsev Mikhail Borisovich
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War and Peace
Andrei Bolkonsky
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White Bim Black Ear
Ivan Ivanovich
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Andrei Bolkonsky
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Burnt by the Sun
Vsevolod

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