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Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Birthday: 1928-02-08 | Place of Birth: Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1995
Burnt by the Sun

as    Vsevolod

1988
To Kill a Dragon

as    архивариус Шарлемань

1975
They Fought for Their Motherland

as    pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

1974
Front Without Flanks

as    Ivan Petrovich Mlynsky, Major

1973
Seventeen Moments of Spring

as    Max Otto von Stirlitz / Maksim Maksimovich Isaev

1968
We'll Live Till Monday

as    Ilya Semyonovich Melnikov - History Teacher

1966
War and Peace

as    Andrei Bolkonsky

1963
An Optimistic Tragedy

as    Aleksei

1962
Four Winds of Heaven

as    Capt. Suzdalev

1959
May Stars

as    Andrey Rukavichkin

1959
Thirst

as    Oleg Bezborodko

1958
It Happened in Penkovo

as    Matvey Morozov

1948
The Young Guard

as    Vladimir Osmukhin