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Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Acting Born Jul 23, 1946 Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR 24 credits

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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Known for

To Remember

as Himself - archiveFootage
Film

Stalker

as Stalker

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

as Борис Миркин - скупщик золота
Film

Anna Karenina

as Jules Landeau

The Lyon's Den

as Philip Lombard

Full filmography

  • To Remember (1993) as Himself - archiveFootage
  • Stalker (1979) as Stalker
  • Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (1971) as Борис Миркин - скупщик золота
  • The Fourth (1972)
  • Anna Karenina (1967) as Jules Landeau
  • Past and Thoughts (1972) as Виссарион Белинский
  • Hound of the Baskervilles (1971) as Джэк Стэплтон
  • Ten Little Indians (1987) as Philip Lombard
  • A Nest of Gentry (1969)
  • New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988) as Sir Lancelot
  • Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976) as Vorontsov
  • Failure of Engineer Garin (1973) as Wolf
  • The Arrival of a Train (1996)
  • The Bodyguard (1979) as Mirzo
  • At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974) as Lemke
  • Going My Way (1975)
  • The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992) as Narrator (voice)
  • A Quiet Day at the End of the War (1970) as Sergeant
  • The Lost Expedition (1975) as Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)
  • Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979) as Nowak
  • First Love (1969)
  • Forward March, Time! (1977) as Reading poem (voice)
  • The Theater Is My House (1987) as А. Н. Островский
  • The Turning Point (1978) as doctor