Alexander Lazarev (actor)

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Alexander Sergeevich Lazarev
Александр Сергеевич Лазарев
Russian Federation
OccupationActor
Years active1961–2011
SpouseSvetlana Nemolyaeva
AwardsPeople's Artist of the RSFSR (1977)

Alexander Sergeyevich Lazarev (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ла́зарев; 3 January 1938 – 2 May 2011) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, the

Mayakovsky Theater veteran (where throughout his fifty years career he played more than fifty parts) Lazarev appeared in more than 100 films, including One More Thing About Love (1968) which made him famous.[1][2]

Biography

Alexander Lazarev was born in

Mayakovsky Theater, led at the time by Nikolay Okhlopkov where the part of Boytsov the electrician in Aleksei Arbuzov's The Irkutsk Story was his first success.[3]

In 1961 Lazarev debuted in film, in thriller melodrama Free Wind (Вольный ветер, 1961), based on

Tatyana Doronina) brought Lazarev nationwide acclaim.[3]

The director

Grigory Gorin
's play.

Lazarev continued to appear in films throughout the 2000s but none of those were particularly successful. "In theater he was continuously demonstrating his brilliance, his versatility, his comedy actor's potential. In cinema? Silence. Not one of our famous film directors has ever invited him to play a more or less substantial part. 'What we have we neglect, once we lose it – mourn it'," author and critic

Edward Radzinsky
, speaking on the Russian TV (and quoting the Russian proverb) commented in 2011.

Alexander Lazarev died in Abramtsevo, Moscow Oblast, on 2 May 2011. He is interred in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.[2][3]

Family

On 27 March 1960 Alexander Lazarev married a fellow Mayakovsky Theater actress

Lencom actor, the People's Artist of Russia (2007) and the State Prize
(1996) laureate.

Alexander Lazarev's younger brother Yuri (born 22 July 1944), a Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre actor, has been honoured with the Meritorious Artist (1994) and the People's Artist of Russia (2009) titles.[3][6]

Selected filmography

  • 1961 — Free Wind as Yango (leading role)
  • 1964 — Taking Fire Upon Ourselves as Fyodor, partisan unit commander
  • 1966 — On a Wild Shore as Sakko
  • 1967 — In the Beautiful Furious World (TV play)
  • 1967 — Revenge (Возмездие) as German doctor
  • 1968 — Portrait of Dorian Gray as Basil
  • 1968 — One Thing More About Love as Yevdokimov, physicist (leading role)
  • 1968 — Knight of Dream as clairvoyant musician
  • 1969 — Late Flowers as doctor Toporkov (leading role)
  • 1971 — Deadly Enemy as Yaschurov
  • 1971 — Talents and Followers (TV play) as Meluzov
  • 1971 — Blackened Crumpets (USSR-GDR)
  • 1971 — What to Do? (TV play, author)
  • 1972 — In Answer for Everything as Mashkov, physicist
  • 1972 — 17th Transatlantic as captain Lukhmanov
  • 1973 — Dmitry Kantemir as Peter the Great
  • 1973 — An Hour Before Dawn as Derzhavin
  • 1974 — Movie Star as Igor Grekov, film director
  • 1974 — Time of Her Sons ( as Gulyaev, a physicist
  • 1975 — Led By a Bright Light as actor
  • 1975 — A Boy With an Épée as Artemyev, school director
  • 1975 — Such a Short Life as Kalugin
  • 1975 — Black Sea Waves as general Zarya-Zaryanitsky
  • 1976 — Your Own Opinion as Konstantinov, partkom secretary
  • 1977 — Risk is a Virtue as Listov, actor
  • 1977 — The Long Ordeal as Zhadov
  • 1978 — Velvet Season as Lamer
  • 1978 —
    Where were you, Odysseus?
     as oberfuhrer Warburg
  • 1978 — Gamblers (TV play) as Krugel
  • 1979 — Licrative Contract as Tregubov, KGB general
  • 1979 — Month of Long Days as Aleksandr Nikolayevich
  • 1980 — Evening Lbirynth as Main Attractions boss
  • 1980 — Through Thorns to the Stars as professor Klimov
  • 1981 — The Nightly Fairytale as Peter Munk
  • 1981 — Uncle's Dream (TV play) as governor general
  • 1981 — The Hunter (TV play) as Zubarin
  • 1982 — Take Care of Men! as Grafov, a sculptor
  • 1982 — Inspector Losev as Zurikh
  • 1983 — Demidovs as Peter the Great
  • 1983 — Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov as Doctor
  • 1985 — The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Lanyon
  • 1985 — Children of the Sun as Vagin, artist
  • 1986 — Through Main Street with an Orchestra as Romanovsky
  • 1986 — The Mysterious Prisoner as Alexander II of Russia
  • 1986 — Secret Ambassador as Peter the Great
  • 1986 — The Life of Klim Samgin as Roman Georgievich, Rittmeister
  • 1987 — Its Not Always Summer in Crimea as Nikolay Semashko
  • 1988 — The Adventures of Quentin Durward as
    Louis XI of France
  • 1989 — Differed of Characters as Gorohov (leading role)
  • 1989 — The Stepanchikovo Village and Its Inhabitants as Colonel Egor Rostanev
  • 1990 — The War Was Tomorrow (TV play) as Lyberetsky
  • 2002 — Kean the Fourth (TV play) as Edmund Kean (leading role)

Literature

  • Дубровский В. Серебряный шнур: А. Лазарев, С. Немоляева, А. Лазарев-младший. М., 2001.

References

  1. ^ "Александр Лазарев (старший)". www.kino-teatr.ru. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
  2. ^ a b "Ушёл из жизни Александр Лазарев". Russian 1st TV Channel news. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Александр Сергеевич Лазарев". www.peoples.ru. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
  4. ^ Igor Bin. "Александр Сергеевич Лазарев (биография)". www.peoples.ru. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
  5. ^ Cмех лангусты. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine - www.weekend.ru.
  6. ^ Лазарев, Юрий Сергеевич at kino-teatr.ru

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