Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Acting
Born 1946-07-23
Died 1995-12-03
Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
63 credits
Honored art worker of the Russian Federation 1
Awards
Won 1 Honored art worker of the Russian Federation Award
Honored art worker of the Russian Federation 1 won
- 1992 Honored art worker of the Russian Federation Won
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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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Filmography
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Acting
38 credits
Stalker
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
To Remember
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Golden River
Past and Thoughts
Failure of Engineer Garin
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Anna Karenina
Fact
Failure of Engineer Garin
Parajanov: The Last Spring
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Hound of the Baskervilles
The Importance of Being Earnest
Forward March, Time!
Pilot Pirx's Inquest
Ten Little Indians
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Drama on the Hunt
Vanyushin's Kids
The Lost Expedition
The Mathematician and the Devil
The Pass
Rafferty
The Rescuer
The Bodyguard
The Turning Point
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
That Was in Kokand
The Theater Is My House
Khareba and Gogia
Magic Hunter
Hound of the Baskervilles
I'm Sorry
The Devil's Breath
The Fifteenth Spring
A Quiet Day at the End of the War
Other credits
17 credits
Going My Way
The Return
Story of an Unknown Man
A Nest of Gentry
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
The Mysterious Wall
The Life of Beethoven
My Calling
The Fourth
Contract
The Arrival of a Train
Under the Roofs of Montmartre
Fiery Bridge
And I'm With You Again...
The Gambler
First Love
And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
Directing
5 credits
Writing
4 credits
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