Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Acting
Born: July 23, 1946 · Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died: December 3, 1995 (aged 49)
Highest Rated
Biography
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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Movies (52)
Stalker
Stalker
Pilot Pirx's Inquest
Nowak
A Nest of Gentry
1969
The Rescuer
Николай Вараксин
Anna Karenina
Jules Landeau
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Kriouchoff
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Lemke
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Narrator (voice)
Fact
Stanislav
The Pass
Narrator (voice)
The Theater Is My House
А. Н. Островский
Ten Little Indians
Philip Lombard
Contract
1985
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Sir Lancelot
A Quiet Day at the End of the War
Sergeant
The Gambler
1972
The Return
1980
The Devil's Breath
Damian
The Fourth
1972
Forward March, Time!
Reading poem (voice)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Джон Уортинг
Golden River
бывший царский офицер Кирилл Зимин
First Love
1969
The Arrival of a Train
1996
The Lost Expedition
Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)
Who Will go to Truskavets?
1978
Hound of the Baskervilles
Джэк Стэплтон
The Turning Point
doctor
Drama on the Hunt
Граф Карнеев
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Vorontsov
Going My Way
1975
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
1993
Fiery Bridge
1976
Failure of Engineer Garin
Вольф
Vanyushin's Kids
Костя
The Bodyguard
Mirzo
Magic Hunter
Maxim
Two Tickets to India
1985
Story of an Unknown Man
1980
My Calling
1976
The Life of Beethoven
1978
The Fifteenth Spring
Messenger
The Mathematician and the Devil
Черт
Under the Roofs of Montmartre
1975
And I'm With You Again...
1981
And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
1971
I'm Sorry
Pranas
That Was in Kokand
поручик Зайченко
Khareba and Gogia
Vokhovski
The Mysterious Wall
1967
Rafferty
Эймс
Kafedra
Valentin Orlov
