Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov was born this day. He was a Soviet and Russian actor whose best known role was as Soviet spy, Stierlitz in the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring. He was a recipient of numerous state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).
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Tikhonov became better known with the release of "the rural family drama Delo bylo v Penkove (It Happened in Penkovo, 1958), [which] was followed by several wartime dramas: Maiskie Zvyozdy (May Stars, 1959), set in Prague, and Na Semi Vetrakh (On the Seven Winds, 1962), on the Western front." "In Yevgeny Tashkov's Zhazhda (Thirst, 1959), based on real events, Tikhonov, in the first of his spy roles, is a scout in an operation to free an Odessa water plant from the Nazis."Tikhonov appeared in Nikita Mikhalkov's Oscar-winning Burnt By the Sun (1994) and will also appear in the 2010 sequel, which finished shooting before his death.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov 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 envisaged 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.
ReplyDeleteIn 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 again, this time 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 the actor's family."
I think that Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov is one of the best actors in all over the world! at least in our country, I'm sure!!! Tikhonov also played Prince Andrei Bolkonski in the Oscar-winning adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (1968) by Sergei Bondarchuk (who played Bezukhov).
ReplyDeleteI like him, too!!!
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