Veniamin Smekhov

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Veniamin Borisovich Smekhov (Russian: Вениами́н Бори́сович Сме́хов; b. August 10, 1940 in Moscow) is a Russian actor.

Smekhov has long worked in the Moscow Taganka Theatre where his roles included Woland in a stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. In film, he is most known and loved for the role of Athos in a Russian version of The Three Musketeers (1978) and its sequels (1992, 1993). He also has written children poetry, scripts, memoirs and humour.

[edit] External links

• Veniamin Smekhov at the Internet Movie Database
• Veniamin Smekhov Unofficial Site (Russian)